Example sentences of "[verb] been working [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact Arlene has been working here for years . ’ |
| 2 | Human Touch is the album he has been working on for several years and Lucky Town a set of songs he quickly wrote and recorded at home recently , and though the tone of the two records does n't differ that much , the second set of songs are far better . |
| 3 | It is an idea the Pru has been working on for many years , and Mr Lawrence has been at the forefront of the plans . |
| 4 | The aerospace team in Celomer has been working hard for the last nine years to get Deutsche Airbus approval for paints supplied from Celomer , and one year ago Celomer secured the first 100 tons contract . |
| 5 | And yes , he 'd been working there for several days . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd been working solidly for eighteen months , ’ she pointed out . |
| 7 | Then , the following week , the essay on Jane Eyre she had been working on for her English class disappeared from her desk . |
| 8 | Terry had written out a very detailed plan for a farm-school project for juvenile offenders that he had been working on for almost two years . |
| 9 | Maeve sat crouched over a table using a pool of light from a huge candelabra to stab furiously with her needle at a piece of embroidery she had been working on for years . |
| 10 | Now there is nothing to prevent plural continuation here ( e.g. They had been working hard for hours ) , but the incidence of such continuations was less than 5% , and continuations mostly were confined to singular references with individuals being in relatively stereotypical roles with respect to each other . |
| 11 | I 've been working here for fourteen years but I ca n't buy postage stamps without his say-so . |
| 12 | I 've been working here for seven years now and I really enjoy my job . |
| 13 | ‘ Yeah , it 's a collection of tunes that I 've been working on for a while . |
| 14 | The sales force is a problem they 've been working on for awhile and could be in a position to snap off in a few months . |
| 15 | Erm the housing need figure we 've been working on for Greater York has been nine thousand seven hundred and that 's been based on the parishes within the Greater York study area . |
| 16 | In the U K the improvement plans we 've been working on for the last two years have been very successfully implemented but they 've been overtaken by the U K recession . |
| 17 | I 've been working abroad for the last twenty years , I 've just come back to the U K and my family 's all died , and I do n't know anybody , and I 'm going to start off working here . |
| 18 | It contains the first detailed plans for the Himalayas , which all the big names in the business have been working on for years . |
| 19 | They have been working successfully for years and apparently preclude the necessity of fertilisers . |
| 20 | The first and third shows , ( dis ) parities and countervail , profile with work of two groups of women who have been working collectively for a number of years . |
| 21 | ‘ I feel that we have been working together for much longer , ’ says Sandra , ‘ because even when we had our own businesses we would ring each other up for advice . |
| 22 | In its vast project to kick the mainframe habit and move to Unix-based client-server systems , Mead Corp 's database operator Mead Data Central Inc is spreading its favours around , and while some Unix business has gone to Hewlett-Packard Co , NCR Corp is also in there as a so-called strategic technology partner ( presumably its non-strategic technology partners are the people that supply the brooms they sweep the floor with ) as Mead moves existing applications off mainframes to a client-server environment : the two have been working together for the past year on projects to re-engineer access to the widely-used Lexis and Nexis on-line information services and create a new internal information system infrastructure and campus-wide network , and Mead is using NCR System 3000 symmetric multiprocessors and AT&T Co and NCR network products . |
| 23 | We have been working together for the past three days . |
| 24 | After all , he 's been working here for centuries , and I bet no one 's ever heard him say ‘ Cut , that 's a wrap ’ , before . ’ |