Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been work [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ The one against Ruddock was more natural , more instinctive , something I 'd been working on . |
2 | ‘ I 'd been working solidly for eighteen months , ’ she pointed out . |
3 | If I had been working properly and systematically I should have gone back and looked at this — ; and other receptors — in detail in IMHV . |
4 | Now that I 'd definitely decided to welcome the baby , I 'd have to start planning with a bit more efficiency than in the past , when , so far as one could see , I had been working vaguely on the basis that God would provide ; and why the hell He should in a case like this was probably more than even the most devout believer could have told me . |
5 | It fitted in with what I had been working out already . |
6 | ‘ Yeah , it 's a collection of tunes that I 've been working on for a while . |
7 | Something I 've been working on . ’ |
8 | And for me , it represents an opportunity to complete the kind of Freud-Darwin synthesis I 've been working on really , for the last ten years , and it kind of represents the completion of the synthesis , as it were now completely merged in my mind into a single , the single kind of entity that I , I know call psychoanalytic . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | ‘ I 've been working up north , ’ I smiled , convinced that for her the North began at Cannon Street . |
11 | ‘ I 've been working here since early morning . ’ |
12 | I 've been working here for fourteen years but I ca n't buy postage stamps without his say-so . |
13 | I 've been working here for seven years now and I really enjoy my job . |
14 | So he said oh oh said his moan and groan so he said well I spoke to Blue he said , he 's off sick he said and he gets ninety pounds a week for being at home I 've been working here all week he said , for a hundred and forty so I 'm forty pound a week better off than him ! |
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 | I 've been working abroad for the last twenty years , I 've just come back to the U K and my family 's all died , and I do n't know anybody , and I 'm going to start off working here . |
17 | I 've been working mainly on girls ' education really from about eighteen ninety to about nineteen thirty and that 's what has mainly occupied me research wise . |
18 | ‘ I 've been working personally with these pickups for some time , putting them on Teles and Strats and all kinds of things , ’ says Paul . |
19 | ‘ I 've been working very hard on it , ’ was all I managed to say . |
20 | ‘ Oh , I 'm so sorry , ’ she said , ‘ I 'm afraid I 've been working too hard . ’ |
21 | Maybe I 've been working too hard . ’ |
22 | I do n't know , basically I 've been working so hard and pushing so hard I have n't really slowed down to even think about what I 'm doing with my work . |
23 | ‘ And , if I have n't yet got around to getting a divorce , it 's … well , it 's just because I 've been working so hard , that 's all . ’ |
24 | ‘ I 've been working out and I feel I have got it right this time . |
25 | ‘ It is something I 've been working hard to improve . |
26 | ‘ I 've been working hard — ’ |
27 | I 've been working hard with Gill to get into top form for the Olympics so singles play has taken a bit of a back seat . |
28 | I 've been working hard with Gill to get into top form for the Olympics so singles play has taken a bit of a back seat . |
29 | I 've been working hard at getting fit again . |
30 | ‘ But I have been working away ever since and they have not done anything more to me . |