Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] have be working " in BNC.
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1 | But mostly I 've been working in television . ’ |
2 | I do n't know , basically I 've been working so hard and pushing so hard I have n't really slowed down to even think about what I 'm doing with my work . |
3 | and literally I 've been working |
4 | Then they continue , they hand you the tape , you ask them a few questions , like what the band 's called , how long you 've been working together , and bla bla bla , and then erm , I think I I 'm actually doing it with Kent and James and they 're not thick . |
5 | So they 've been working on modifications and this year , oh we will we 'll put the modifications right and then come back with another sales pitch |
6 | Apparently he 's been working in Australia , on oil rigs , I believe . ’ |
7 | Lately she has been working as a $10-an-hour dresser at local fashion shows and answering phones at an aerobics studio . |
8 | Lately he has been working on paintings of trees , large-sized drawings of nudes , painted low-reliefs in wood and a series of portraits of poets in which snippets from their work are inscribed ( Beats Alan Ginsberg and Gregory Corso appear in the show ) . |
9 | So far I have been working " backwards ' from the specific deictic terms and elements of the poem to contextual possibilities and other pragmatic considerations . |
10 | ‘ Now I have been working hard on my fitness and my ankle has improved . ’ |
11 | Now , now you 've been working in the area of AIDS for some time now , do you think that the message is getting through ? |
12 | N nowadays I hear erm or the lads who have been they go out They 've been working with contractor and they say how different it is when your mother was alive , everybody who came here they they used to join us for their dinner . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Well we 've been working hard today going all round the stores |
15 | Maybe I 've been working too hard . ’ |
16 | Oh , yes , Taggy told me how you have been working your fingers to the bone . ’ |
17 | Course she 'd been working hard well er not working hard you know just in the cleaning like that . |
18 | And we and then we had been working for him for about ten or eleven years on this contract that he had for us . |
19 | There they have been working with individual patients who , for one reason or another , spend most of their lives sitting down — some of them in wheelchairs , unable to walk at all . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | Well he er he asked where I 'd been working and what could I do and and I was young then aye . |
22 | ‘ I fancied a change of scene from London where I 'd been working with the Bank of England in-house catering team ’ she said . |
23 | In France , where I have been working for two years , the government understands the need for cultural things . |
24 | She said , ‘ So this is where you 've been working . ’ |
25 | But something like the choir or where you 've been working , I do n't know you , I , I 've got this thing which is |
26 | She 'd set off at 2pm from TV-am , where she 'd been working since 8am on The Wide Awake Club . |
27 | ‘ Did n't she say where she 'd been working ? |
28 | The daft thing was they were probably going back to where we 'd been working . |
29 | That is why we have been working to reduce inflation — with success ; to bring down interest rates — with success ; and to cut direct tax rates — with success . |
30 | That 's why the windows of the houses are so small — so that they do n't have to see where they 've been working all day long . |