Example sentences of "[verb] be working for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | San Francisco self-funded start-up Metron Technology has been working for a year and a half to develop some innovative , object-oriented , automated testing and performance debugging software for developing multi-processor and distributed Unix applications . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Owen had been working for a consulting company in Washington before deciding to devote himself to the contras , sitting at North 's feet ; despite his deep immersion in murky affairs , he still took a wide-eyed view of the world in which he operated . |
| 4 | ‘ Nutrition , ’ John said , after he had been working for a short time . |
| 5 | I 've been working for a company that constructs oil rigs and my job involved a lot of moving around . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I have been working for a moment like this for nine years and finally it has arrived . |
| 7 | In the biggest-ever inquiry of its kind , 30 police officers have been working for a year , taking 1,500 statements from youngsters . |
| 8 | Many people find that they return to the same company over and over again , or take up a permanent job offer at a place they have been working for a while . |
| 9 | I have been working for a moment like this for nine years and finally it has arrived . |