Example sentences of "[verb] [be] work on [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A little company in Golden , Colorado has been working on its own version of Unix for the last year and half , this one called Usix . |
| 2 | And we have had the trust secretary who has been working on our behalf voluntarily for some time now . |
| 3 | Molt Taylor , an aero engineer from the US , has been working on his Aerocar for 40 years . |
| 4 | Maybe Vinnie has been working on his own . |
| 5 | ‘ She 'd been working on them for quite a while . |
| 6 | He must have been working on it in January 1948 at the latest , since the book was sent to the printers in the second week of February . |
| 7 | ‘ He may not have been working on it ; more likely he was deciding how to frame it . ’ |
| 8 | If he produced a book about once every five years , he could pretend to have been working on it all that time , even it he had cobbled it together only in the last two or three months . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The best place for Jed during all of this , she 'd decided , would be with his minder ; she 'd worked out a special weekend rate with Mrs Neary some time ago and had been working on her conscience ever since . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Erm yes erm well at the ti at first I could only move my head , but when I went on that holiday , St Giles had been working on me with nerve machines and muscle machines |
| 13 | He had been working on it ever since the end of the war , and showing it in whole or in part to his friends . |
| 14 | ACSS was set up by himself and interested friends five years before and he had been working on it since . |
| 15 | He had been working on it for more than ten years . |
| 16 | This bloke , you know , had been working on it for fifty years nonstop and |
| 17 | Graham had been working on his yacht , the Sea Eagle , during a break on a long sailing trip , when he suffered an electric shock . |
| 18 | The students are coming to the end of their additional assessments now : they 've been working on their projects since December . |
| 19 | I 've been working on her image for some time now . |
| 20 | Like the grave-diggers in Hamlet , they speculated on life : ‘ We 've been working on it for 25 years and we still have n't got round . |
| 21 | I 've got three people working on it right now and they 've been working on it for three years . |
| 22 | I 've been working on it for most of the week , so do n't make me mess it up . |
| 23 | I knew those had been painted over ten years before , I said to him , ‘ Is this an old painting or a new painting ? ’ and he said , ‘ Well , I 've been working on it . ’ |
| 24 | You 've been working on it , Ingrid , yes , with your teacher ? ’ |
| 25 | Wew 've been working on it for a long time , polticals issues are nothing to do with us , we 're a commercial company |
| 26 | And they quote epistles of St. Paul so difficult that the theologians , who have been working on them for two thousand years , have not got to the bottom of them . |
| 27 | They have been working on their passing and set-piece play after two poor displays in the Premier League and the Coca Cola Cup . |
| 28 | Yes you have been doing , you have been working on it yes , yes |
| 29 | I think that I am probably a bit sharper in the burst than over the long distance but during the two ‘ B ’ games I felt really sharp and I have been working on my speed and strength with the SRU fitness specialist , David McLean ’ . |
| 30 | Your boy 's been working on it . |