Example sentences of "been working at " 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 | Cecil explained that Pursuit of Love had been working at home with Desert Sun and the recent Newbury winner Rudimentary . |
| 3 | Apparently Mr. Dolman had been working at The Albion Hotel , fell from a very tall ladder and was killed . |
| 4 | The heaviest copper head from Ife weighs almost 7 kg so the Ife smiths seem to have been working at the limits of this technique . |
| 5 | He had been working at tar Processing and the fumes had given him an unpleasant skin complaint . |
| 6 | If you have been working at extreme depth and then call a halt do n't block the holes up . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's some depth they 've been working at , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Staff of the Global Seismology Unit had previously been working at Edinburgh and Eskdalemuir , under the control of the Meteorological Office , and at the Royal Observatory , Edinburgh . |
| 9 | Derek has been working at capturing the flavour of the Norfolk Black — but in a bigger-breasted bird . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Ranjan Gohin , 36 , summed up the mood saying : ‘ I 've been working at John Lewis for 14 years and I do n't think this will put me off . |
| 12 | Filan , who carries an Irish passport , has been working at Saints with former England goalkeeping coach Mike Kelly after failing to impress Lou Macari during a week 's trial at Stoke . |
| 13 | I did n't see it , I 've been working at the office . |
| 14 | The gallery represents those painters and graphic artists from eastern Berlin who have been working at the dissolution of figuration into pure chromatic values and abstract formal structures . |
| 15 | He had been working at the Council depot as an attendant when Joe offered him the job , and he had been very pleased to make the change . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Since you since you came into the flats have you have you been working at all or have have you been erm |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been working at the restaurant for three years and I like it there . |
| 20 | In the three years or so that I have been working at Joan Allen Electronics I have become acutely aware of battery problems , in particular from the many cases where detectors have been sent back for repair needlessly . |
| 21 | Tonight she 'd try to find out which , if any , of the other employees had been working at the club when Christine had been there . |
| 22 | It 's what we 've been working at for the last three years . |
| 23 | Booker had been working at Liberal News and , after receiving a letter from Usborne , whose proto-satirical magazine Mesopotamia at Oxford had centred around Foot , Ingrams , and John Wells , the product hit the streets or rather those streets in South Kensington to which Andrew Osmond , another Oxford contemporary , chose to distribute it . |
| 24 | ‘ Now , has anyone been working at home ? ’ the tutor asked at lunchtime . |
| 25 | We have been working at improving race relations in Britain for over 30 years , under successive Governments . |
| 26 | About 700 men had been working at three pit levels up to 560 metres below the ground , over a 2 sq km area . |
| 27 | Pitmen in Northumberland and Durham were working six or seven hours in 1765 but seem to have been working at least eight by the end of the century , as Whitehaven 's colliers had already been doing in 1765 . |
| 28 | They had all been working at stone-gathering , keeping their pageant money out of sight for fear the constables mark them as robbers or miracle-workers . |
| 29 | ‘ Mr C S Jones ( Lab ) , Leicester NW — Will the Government now publish the report on which Mr S J L Summerchild is known to have been working at the time of his death ? — The report has already been published as Cmnd. 4078 . ’ |
| 30 | If I 'd been working at home today I should have put on my old skirt and my old pullover , so as to have something comfortably rough and worn around me . |