Example sentences of "he had [be] work [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Not that he had been to work on a Sunday for several years , but that was how he remembered it .
2 When Robert Burrows first became a Christian he had been working on a banana plantation , but some time after his conversion a Salvationist family gave him work on their dairy farm .
3 He had been working on a new series for BBC Radio 2 which is due to be broadcast next spring .
4 He was surprised all the same ; he had been working on a case which , while not exactly undercover , was one demanding some secrecy .
5 He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act .
6 ‘ Nutrition , ’ John said , after he had been working for a short time .
7 All this time he had been working like a madman , limping about overseeing the repairs and helping in spite of his own wounds wherever his strength was needed .
8 He had been working in a shop known as the coal bunker when the two assassins burst in , one carrying a shotgun .
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