Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [verb] be working [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Scientists at Smith Kline Beecham have been working on Havrix for eight years .
3 Leonie von Wilckens has been working in this area for over thirty years from her base at the German National Museum in Nuremberg , home of a major textile collection .
4 It has been suspected for some time that North Korea has been working on a nuclear device .
5 Well we 're looking at a particular condition of the lung that affects patients in intensive care ; it 's a disease a bit like pneumonia , it 's called the adult respiratory distress syndrome , and it 's a disease that we believe is associated with a lot of fluid in the lung , and a compatriot of mine , Dr Young , and Dr McQuillam have been working on a research that er has asked the question — ‘ if we reduce the amount of fluid in the lung , do these patients get better and get better quicker ’ .
6 Mari Marcel Thekaekare has been working for the last seven years on a project she and her husband started , working with tribal people in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu .
7 Dr Kelleher had been working in close cooperation with Dr Laurent and there had been long consultations in the Pathology Lab .
8 Mr Mowatt and Mr Pirrie had been working through the user directories , archiving files for retention , and deleting others as advised by users .
9 Local artist Hazel Albarn has been working with ten and 11-year-olds and their teachers , helping them design and create large sculptures relating to their other work topics .
10 Apparently Mr. Dolman had been working at The Albion Hotel , fell from a very tall ladder and was killed .
11 Since then Mr Crangle had been working in secret on another expedition .
12 The manuscript on which Ernest Cotchin had been working for so many years was unfinished and unrevised when he died in September 1988 .
13 Mr Davidson 's father , Robert Snr , said Mrs Holmes had been working for him for the last eight years .
14 One Street development Sue loved was working in Alf 's grocery shop with her long-term adversary , The Street 's pint-sized puritan Ivy Brennan , played by Sue 's great pal Lynne Perrie .
15 She was a close friend of the Duchess of Portland and , when staying with her at Bulstrode in Buckinghamshire , December 1753 , reported that Philip Miller had been working in the library and , On another occasion when they met , she commented on his reticence .
16 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
17 Ron Coatman has been working at the pool for 26 years .
18 Mr Eaton and colleague Ron Siddle had been working on sea fasteners , fixed to the barge to stop the module moving .
19 The Wales-based artist Alex Beleschenko has been working in recent years on large-scale architectural commissions for stained glass .
20 Pauline Dungate has been working in the church for quite a few years , and she knows the man who lives in the cemetery from time to time .
21 Before he answered it she slipped in a question about the length of time Shildon had been working on the assignment .
22 ‘ You mean all this time Kerry 's been working against you ? ’
23 BPN reservoir engineers Astrid Sørensen and Thomas Johansen have been working alongside counterparts from a dozen other oil companies and the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate ( NPD ) on the development project for the past 18 months .
24 In fact Michael has been working on the province for nearly 30 years .
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