Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] had been working " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos me and my brother had been working on wagon again . |
| 2 | She was convinced now that her husband had been working on a book about The Hell Fire Club and … |
| 3 | She knew more about The Hell Fire Club ; she was certain that was what her husband had been working on . |
| 4 | Once again Isabel did n't get a chance to argue , even if her brain had been working . |
| 5 | His mind had been working on ideas for an operation against Pearl Harbor and when the United States Pacific fleet sailed to Hawaii on April 2 , 1940 for manoeuvres Yamamoto followed their progress closely . |
| 6 | His father had been working on the farm and he had been sitting at the door of the hut . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Here he dismounted and prayed that whatever spirit had been working within him would continue to work , that this furious feeling of benevolence to all mind — if only a beggar would pass by and he could give him a shilling ! — would not abate , that he ‘ could truly and today start a new life , O Lord , for Thy sake and in Thy name ’ . |