Example sentences of "[noun] he had [be] working " in BNC.

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1 But in 1877 , the last text overseen by the novelist , ‘ as if spoken to himself ’ becomes ‘ as if meant for himself ’ , shifting and refining nuance while involving the change of a single word in Russian , and enabling the artist to get at last the effect he had been working towards .
2 William Tidbury stated that on 11 December he had been working until late at a local farm ( this had already been borne out by the farmer ) .
3 However , when the production shifted back to Los Angeles , the day before shooting started , he lost the kind of gravelly voice he had been working on .
4 Tony had been unemployed for 9 months , after the roofing firm he had been working with for a year had gone into liquidation .
5 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 .
6 Then she convinced him he was to say no more about leaving and get back to the story he had been working on when the row blew up .
7 Of course he had been working for Hut 6 from the day of his arrival at Bletchley and his duties soon became important .
8 Eventually the pair connected , and Knuckles presented Owens with a track he had been working on with Japanese musician Satoshi Tomii .
9 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 .
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