Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] be working " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | He realized that he was tired and that he had been working too long , word upon word , hour after hour , mostly in a poor light , always in bitter cold . |
3 | At this time , Miller told Blair that he had been working with Nathanael St André , ‘ the famous anatomist ’ , examining structures of plants and he believed that together they would make some curious discoveries . |
4 | The strain of trying to do everything himself was taking a toll ; after one almost incoherent letter he explained that he had been working from 8 a.m. until midnight , had not eaten and so ‘ was thoroughly depressed and vague ’ . |
5 | The case of Kenneth Littlejohn had been prominent in the news during the year and they had the impression that he had been working for the Home Office . |
6 | Gavin Turk , who attracted notice for erecting , as his only contribution to his degree show at the Royal College of Art a year ago , a blue English Heritage plaque announcing that he had been working in his studio for two years , is having a first exhibition at an apartment in Docklands , opposite Canary Wharf ( 1–31 July ; by appointment only , call 071–274 0041 ) . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | King Jigme Singye Wangchuck speaking in New Delhi on his arrival in India on Sept. 9 for a four-day official visit , said that he did not consider a monarchy to be the best system of government and that he had been working towards the greater democratization of his country . |
9 | His ankle bone had been badly grazed a week before by a metal panel that he had been working on which had slipped from his grasp . |
10 | Our latest information is that he 's been working as a waiter at a bar called Flamingo . ’ |
11 | ACSS was set up by himself and interested friends five years before and he had been working on it since . |
12 | He used to be a crane driver dear for , yeah he used and I 've got to , one of me sons now is a foreman for , well they 're not now it 's , it 's sort of amal amalgamated with another firm now I think , but he does , he does erm , he 's a foreman like now , he used to be a truck , crane driver and my , the very night that my hubby died on the following Monday he would of been working in Harlow , he got a new crane to take over in Harlow and he 'd been working away from home for weeks and months of the year always away , coming home weekends and I used to have to cook and do his washing and pack him up for going off again Monday morning early , but he never was near home working then , and as I say the night before he went he was , he was gon na work on the Monday to in Old , to Harlow down where the new er place was for and it unfortunately cos he went . |
13 | this chap was here last week he bought this pine table up , got his key , and he 'd been working for three years in Norway |
14 | Regular access to a lab has provided Dawson with facilities to experiment , and he 's been working with solarisation , changing the colour of the base of the film . |
15 | Regular access to a lab has provided Dawson with facilities to experiment , and he 's been working with solarisation , changing the colour of the base of the film . |
16 | And he 's been working erm in in the shop . |
17 | There were gulls flying and calling , but I had not disturbed the main colony , and I thought that I would have heard if he had been working below the cliffs at the north-west point . |
18 | If he had been working for three days and three nights then it was in the suit he was wearing now , and his shoes had mud on them , and Erlich did n't think Ruane would be impressed . |
19 | If he had been working out of the Embassy in Washington , if he was being shunted round the F.B.I . |
20 | But he had been working on that first novel for at least ten years , ever since I 've known him . |
21 | No individual can sell or receive commission on investment business , unless he has been working for that same Company for at least five continuous years . |
22 | ‘ Nutrition , ’ John said , after he had been working for a short time . |
23 | Being quite intuitive , I did notice there was a funny tension between Ken Pitt and David and I thought that probably what had happened was that David had not been satisfied performing ‘ When I Live My Dream ’ with the old backing tracks , as he had been working with Tony Visconti and had all these new tunes and productions and ways of doing things in his head . |
24 | He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act . |
25 | He looks wonderful ; prison has fattened him and his cheeks are pink and shiny , as though he has been working out of doors . |