Example sentences of "[verb] be work [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It becomes clear after one has been working at something for several weeks , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that one is not going to achieve what one had hoped for . |
| 2 | Like Costner , David , 40 , has had to guard Whitney from hordes of obsessed fans in the four years he has been working for her . |
| 3 | If the employee has been working for you for up to eight weeks and does not have a linking letter or a Leaver 's statement , phone your Social Security office and ask if the start of the PIW you are dealing with links back to a claim to a Social Security benefit . |
| 4 | Mr John McIleree , who served with the Royal Signals for 20 years and now lives at Scotton , near Richmond , has been working for his technology degree since 1973 when he was still in the Army . |
| 5 | That Kevin is certainly growing into a fine young man , he has been working with his shirt off in this weather and you can see he is going to be just as much an athlete as his father was . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And we have had the trust secretary who has been working on our behalf voluntarily for some time now . |
| 8 | Molt Taylor , an aero engineer from the US , has been working on his Aerocar for 40 years . |
| 9 | Maybe Vinnie has been working on his own . |
| 10 | ‘ Arazi has been working like his old self and I hope he can go back to America for the Breeders Cup and win like he did last year . ’ |
| 11 | Sarat has been working in his father 's fields but in August was due to move to a clerical post in Cuttack . |
| 12 | When a [ makonde ] sculptor departs from the stereotype [ … $ this is nearly always because an element of doubt or defiance has been worked into it ; a madonna is given a demon to hold instead of the Christ Child ; a priest is represented with the feet of a wild animal , a pietà becomes a study not of sorrow but of revenge , with the mother raising a spear over the body of her dead son . |
| 13 | I got this job in the machine sh in one of the lock shops and er for a fellow , I worked for him and er after I 'd been working for him they wanted me to work for somebody else but this fellow would n't let me go . |
| 14 | ‘ She 'd been working on them for quite a while . |
| 15 | As none of us can ever get outside logocentrism ( its power over our habits of thought and over our language is so pervasive ) , the most that one can do is work against them from within in this sort of way . |
| 16 | The president here remember is working under his powers as commander in chief directly from the constitution and nobody questioned it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ He may not have been working on it ; more likely he was deciding how to frame it . ’ |
| 19 | We have worked with the Government when we should have been working against it . |
| 20 | Diana recognised this when she tried to get rid of Charles 's old advisers whom she felt were working against her . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | On its perch , the parakeet drooped as if it , too , had been worked off its feet . |
| 23 | Eastern Creek was n't scorching hot and yet Kenny Roberts revealed the Dunlops had been working at their best in the blazing heat of qualifying . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Dustin had been working at his antique desk all morning on contact sheets of his wedding pictures , taken almost a year before , trying to pick out the ones to develop . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | He had been working on it ever since the end of the war , and showing it in whole or in part to his friends . |