Example sentences of "[pron] had [be] working [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been working as a dai ( midwife ) for the Government since 1974 , but I resigned when they stopped paying my salary and only paid me if I brought in patients to be sterilized . |
| 2 | ‘ Before the student demonstrations I had been working with a group of Latin American intellectuals in Paris , helping bring out a magazine . |
| 3 | It so happened that the firm I had been working for ( manufacturers of rubber-coats , ground-sheets , etc. ) had closed down the Glasgow Office and factory , and I was without work . |
| 4 | I had been working for the Countess as a personal assistant since she married the Earl in 1976 . |
| 5 | In late August I was finishing my day at the heart clinic , where I had been working for several months , when I decided that it was time to go . |
| 6 | I had been working for more than an hour and my wrists ached from the continuous chopping , but I was filled with an immense exhilaration . |
| 7 | I think what was different in my approach , and it partly goes back to my background , is that firstly I had been working on educational planning , and that secondly I come from a background of market research . |
| 8 | I think , because I had been working on Armchair Theatre , I was used to a certain style of drama , so when I saw the first Doctor Who script my first reaction was , after the first half hour , all we were left with was a lot of hairy-chested cavemen jumping around , grunting and going ‘ Ug ’ . |
| 9 | Now although I am a born sceptic , suddenly being brought face to face with a seemingly identical facsimile of what I had been working on did make me pause for a few moments ! |
| 10 | It was a standing pose and I had been working at my canvas for a week , my problems were not nearly solved , and the painting still excited me . |
| 11 | ‘ For the last four summers I had been working at Appel Farm Arts and Music Centre in New Jersey as head of music , ’ Ken explained . |
| 12 | As had happened before with the labour education programs , the organisations which had been working with Highlander , and which had grown in depth of perspective and experience , took over the running of their own grass roots educational activities . |
| 13 | Mgr José Cardoso Sobrinho , a conservative who had replaced Câmara when the latter retired in 1984 , called a halt to church involvement in human rights work in the archdiocese ; on Dec. 7 , 1989 , he dissolved a justice and peace committee which had been working with the poor , while on Dec. 14 eight priests , two of them French , were ordered to leave the diocese immediately . |
| 14 | The ex-London United cars which had been working on the Croydon — Mitcham route were now transferred to the Sutton route , to work alongside the J type cars ( 1s-16s ) , four of which were withdrawn and sent to Brixton Hill . |
| 15 | She had been working for , and fighting with , Patrick Kelly for years . |
| 16 | Alice was supposed to help but she always woke up too late because she had been working for her exam ; Emmie had to shake her for nearly five minutes before she came up , moaning , out of a deep well of sleep . |
| 17 | It was good to know that all her veterinary training had come to her aid in spite of the fact that she had been working for two years with small animals only . |
| 18 | She had been working with IMP for just under a year now and had managed to contribute significantly to their joint effort , so she did n't feel quite as inadequate as she had when she first joined them . |
| 19 | She had been so immersed in her anger and indignation that she had been working on automatic pilot herself . |
| 20 | She had been working on them ever since she had got home , reading and re-reading the articles , but there was still no clue to unravel the mystery . |
| 21 | She had been working at the Hopeland missionary camp , helping educate teenage boys . |
| 22 | Edith Thomas was married at seventeen : she had been working as a barmaid at the Miner 's Arms and she was married from there . |
| 23 | She had been working since seven in the morning . |
| 24 | She had been working in Poole as a trading standards officer and has moved to London to earn more money to pay for the venture . |
| 25 | They wheeled him rapidly into Resus. , Kathleen snapping out instructions right , left and centre , but as they peeled back the blanket to examine him , even Kathleen after all the years she had been working in A and E was shocked at the extent of his injuries . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He was a friend of Mark 's — an actor friend , who had been working on the same film as Mark when he had died . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | who had been working as an assistant to an Essex doctor , joined the practice , which was then at its zenith . |