Example sentences of "had [been] work [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Great changes had been wrought by the eruption . |
| 2 | Two of them were real stunners John Davies rocketing out of a rolling maul 20 metres from the line to score , and then Stuart Davies crossing a Llewellyn line-out take 15 metres out after it had been worked to the line . |
| 3 | He was clad in the same white coveralls as the half-dozen policemen who had been working over the room , like a coven of wraiths . |
| 4 | Mr Mowatt and Mr Pirrie had been working through the user directories , archiving files for retention , and deleting others as advised by users . |
| 5 | He had been working at the Council depot as an attendant when Joe offered him the job , and he had been very pleased to make the change . |
| 6 | Tonight she 'd try to find out which , if any , of the other employees had been working at the club when Christine had been there . |
| 7 | Before he answered it she slipped in a question about the length of time Shildon had been working on the assignment . |
| 8 | Mr Siddle , of Hesleden Avenue , Acklam , Middlesbrough , said they had been working on the operation the previous day and the pipe kept jamming when attempts were made to slot it into place . |
| 9 | Victim one : Liverpool-born theatre director and choreographer Peter Walker , who had been working on the hit musical , City of Angels , was found strangled , his naked body trussed up on his bed at his home in Battersea , on March 8 . |
| 10 | Thinking fatigue had got the better of his tired mind , Jack Hayden did not worry unduly until the following Monday morning when a porter who had been working on the station Platform came to the mess room and saw a strange figure looking at Mr Hayden . |
| 11 | during the break , after we had done this segment of the film and had gone into the canteen for lunch , all the people who had been working on the film were whistling the song . |
| 12 | After all , he had been working on the theory for twenty years , and did not want to see himself scooped by an outsider . |
| 13 | He had been reading the notes of Wittgenstein , he said , who before his death had been working on the relation between the private , sensuous experience of colour and the universal language of colour words with which we appear to be able to communicate it . |
| 14 | Though it did not appear until relatively late in his life , Locke had been working on the Essay since about 1660 . |
| 15 | His father had been working on the farm and he had been sitting at the door of the hut . |
| 16 | Local people said he had been working on the site for two years and was very popular with them . |
| 17 | The case of Kenneth Littlejohn had been prominent in the news during the year and they had the impression that he had been working for the Home Office . |
| 18 | I had been working for the Countess as a personal assistant since she married the Earl in 1976 . |
| 19 | Mr Wilbraham , who is only 34 , had been working for the family shipping and engineering business until it was sold in 1987 . |
| 20 | Eleven who had been working near the point of irruption had died in the torrent of stinking , clinging , liquid peat . |
| 21 | The plain shimmered below a cloudless sky , and it was not unusual to hear that some contadino ( peasant ) who had been working in the afternoon heat had been taken to the local hospital suffering or even dying from sunstroke . |
| 22 | Matthew , my son , had been working in the gallery on Saturdays since he was 14 , and was now seriously interested in the business . |
| 23 | His article in the Transactions of the Würzburg Physical Medical Society was promptly reported in England and America and , as many scientists had been working in the field , was widely taken up . |
| 24 | She was a close friend of the Duchess of Portland and , when staying with her at Bulstrode in Buckinghamshire , December 1753 , reported that Philip Miller had been working in the library and , On another occasion when they met , she commented on his reticence . |
| 25 | Martyn Colbeck , natural history film-maker , had been working by the Manu river in Peru for the BBC 's Trials of Life series when he feared one of the worst trials of his life was about to begin . |
| 26 | Writing the software was somewhat tedious , but having to work at this level did help the designers to get away from preconceptions about interaction which they might have had if they had been working within the input/output facilities provided by a conventional mini or mainframe operating system ( for example , that it needs a RETURN to terminate user input or that the operating system can properly handle the echoing of characters to the terminal ) . |