Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] have [be] working " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It may be that he or she has been working quietly away in the background or it could be a single , dramatic act of true heroism in harrowing circumstances that we hear about but often goes unrewarded . |
| 3 | So what we are aiming to do is to set up more joint projects , like the one on financial instruments , where we have been working very closely with Canada . |
| 4 | No but I mean , I do n't mean wh I do n't mean where he 's been working for the corporation , I mean before when he 's had these various jobs and they 've finished and he 's had , you know , the job 's finished and they 've had to go somewhere . |
| 5 | ‘ Yeah , it 's a collection of tunes that I 've been working on for a while . |
| 6 | She said : ‘ All that has held us together for years is that I 've been working for you . |
| 7 | How many times have you supposed to have taken something back or have it repaired or something and it 's sat there , and it 's sat there , and it 's sat there , and it 's sat there and it 's collected du , I 've got things round the house that I 've been working on and that I 've got ta , I 've got ta and it 's collected dust . |
| 8 | My pen that I 've been working . |
| 9 | It was a freezing cold day and I 'd been sitting there in nothing but these dungarees that I 'd been working on the roof in . |
| 10 | Mind you in between that I 'd been working on the fa farm farm . |
| 11 | Ian Luder , head of Arthur Andersen 's executive and personal taxation services group , says that ‘ the more that I have been working on employee schemes , the more convinced I am that there is an impact ’ . |
| 12 | In the three years or so that I have been working at Joan Allen Electronics I have become acutely aware of battery problems , in particular from the many cases where detectors have been sent back for repair needlessly . |
| 13 | The bird has become very unfit , and the damaged wing is shorter than the other , so I 've been working on moving it in the way the bird would move it in flight , to stretch it . |
| 14 | It looks as if we 'll be able to buy the Stiebel-Stein mail-order business , so I 've been working on ways to raise the money . |
| 15 | Fortunately , I had my suspicions about it right from the start , so I 've been working closely with the police to help clear it up . ’ |
| 16 | Fortunately for me , some of my friends and relations like something a bit more unusual , so I have been working out some new ideas for this year for those ‘ champagne ’ garments on a ‘ lemonade ’ income . |
| 17 | He knew he had to turn his back on Crevecoeur , dreading the day he would see physical signs that SHe had been working . |
| 18 | She had been so immersed in her anger and indignation that she had been working on automatic pilot herself . |
| 19 | Two minutes later she was tapping on his office door , clutching to her bosom the file of notes and sketches that she had been working on with such enthusiasm all week . |
| 20 | She resisted adding that she had been working overtime on his designs . |
| 21 | In her haste to get away , she must have bundled up the documents and ledgers that she had been working on and brought them back with her . |
| 22 | ‘ Do n't you know what time — ’ she began , but already , somehow , he had moved past her into the dimly lit office and was standing confidently at her drawing-board , casually eyeing the plan that she had been working on . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Now , if we 've said that the correlation coefficient is the product that we 've been working out and we 've said the maximum positive value that this little expression here can obtain is N minus one , N minus one divided by N minus one is plus one . |
| 25 | Other fields that we 've been working on particularly are the educational field and the content and scale of education , it 's link with the unemployment problem and it would take too long really to list the whole range . |
| 26 | Yes , I think that as David said one of the things that we 've been working at very hard in recent years in teacher training is to try to improve the quality and the content of reading courses generally , and then I think it is also necessary to draw attention to teachers of this problem of dyslexia . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | Mike says that they 've been working hard to organise the trip — and is not bothered about the risk of visiting the country . |
| 29 | Throughout the trial the brothers had maintained that they had been working as agents for the British Government in Dublin . |
| 30 | In a recent South African trial resulting from a rail accident , the drivers concerned denied responsibility on the grounds that they had been working compulsory 18-hour shifts . |