Example sentences of "[verb] been work [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Graham had been working on his yacht , the Sea Eagle , during a break on a long sailing trip , when he suffered an electric shock . |
| 32 | Alice was supposed to help but she always woke up too late because she had been working for her exam ; Emmie had to shake her for nearly five minutes before she came up , moaning , out of a deep well of sleep . |
| 33 | Roy had been working for him since three weeks after his wedding , and he hated it . |
| 34 | Mr Davidson 's father , Robert Snr , said Mrs Holmes had been working for him for the last eight years . |
| 35 | And we and then we had been working for him for about ten or eleven years on this contract that he had for us . |
| 36 | Matisse , who was one of the first of the painters of his generation to appreciate the true genius of Cézanne , had been working under his influence since 1899 , the year in which he bought Cézanne 's Trois Baigneuses from Vollard , choosing it in preference to an Arlésienne by Van Gogh , and in the figure pieces that lead up to the Bonheur , the influence of Cézanne is immediately obvious . |
| 37 | Eva had been working as his second for a number of years . |
| 38 | 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 ) . |
| 39 | Lucy Lane had been working in his team for three years but he felt that he knew her only a little better than he had done after her first month . |
| 40 | Throughout his life several elements had been working within him : a deep knowledge and appreciation of the countryside , a sharp mind and a willingness to learn . |
| 41 | Here he dismounted and prayed that whatever spirit had been working within him would continue to work , that this furious feeling of benevolence to all mind — if only a beggar would pass by and he could give him a shilling ! — would not abate , that he ‘ could truly and today start a new life , O Lord , for Thy sake and in Thy name ’ . |
| 42 | you know , he 's that sort of bloke , he 's a very nice bloke and he 's got a heart of gold and he 's saved us no end of the money ai n't he , since I 've been working for him ? |
| 43 | She said : ‘ All that has held us together for years is that I 've been working for you . |
| 44 | I 've been working with him since ‘ Expecting To Fly ’ in 1968 . ’ |
| 45 | ‘ I suppose I 've seen another side to David Markham since I 've been working with him . ’ |
| 46 | I 've been working with you for weeks . |
| 47 | But surely to if you 've been working with your partner for a long time he 's gon na it anyway |
| 48 | I 've been working towards it from the start . |
| 49 | The students are coming to the end of their additional assessments now : they 've been working on their projects since December . |
| 50 | I 've been working on her image for some time now . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | I 've got three people working on it right now and they 've been working on it for three years . |
| 53 | I 've been working on it for most of the week , so do n't make me mess it up . |
| 54 | 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 . ’ |
| 55 | You 've been working on it , Ingrid , yes , with your teacher ? ’ |
| 56 | Wew 've been working on it for a long time , polticals issues are nothing to do with us , we 're a commercial company |
| 57 | I 've been working in our infirmary for quite a while now , that is , when I 'm not having my ordinary lessons . |
| 58 | ‘ I 've been working in my surgery , perhaps we could talk there . ’ |
| 59 | For the past decade , the teachers at Gillingham have been working towards something which looks very much like the national curriculum , to ensure a smooth transfer to the new system . |
| 60 | 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 . |