Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] be working [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For the last four summers I had been working at Appel Farm Arts and Music Centre in New Jersey as head of music , ’ Ken explained . |
| 2 | But in 1877 , the last text overseen by the novelist , ‘ as if spoken to himself ’ becomes ‘ as if meant for himself ’ , shifting and refining nuance while involving the change of a single word in Russian , and enabling the artist to get at last the effect he had been working towards . |
| 3 | They wheeled him rapidly into Resus. , Kathleen snapping out instructions right , left and centre , but as they peeled back the blanket to examine him , even Kathleen after all the years she had been working in A and E was shocked at the extent of his injuries . |
| 4 | In the 19 years she has been working for Durham County Council 's social services the number of rehabilitation officers for the visually impaired has dropped to one . |
| 5 | As well as developing these national awards we have been working with a number of employers and other organisations to develop awards which are tailored to their individual needs . |
| 6 | For the past 10 years we 've been working on synthesising the chemical ; now we 're trying to see if the European Yew will provide the starter material for producing anti-cancer activity . |
| 7 | Over the past few years we have been working on such an account , and in this paper we focus on the implications of this account for a central tenet of the mental models approach : that the mental model of the text so far provides ( part of the context for the interpretation of the current sentence or clause . |
| 8 | Because of our experience at Scone Park and in many other projects in the twelve years we have been working with young offenders , we , along with the other children 's charities , oppose the government 's proposals on persistent young offenders . |
| 9 | Many people find that they return to the same company over and over again , or take up a permanent job offer at a place they have been working for a while . |
| 10 | Well obviously the sad reality of the thing does n't come home to , to our countrymen and a man comes up last week and tells me that he 's been paid off by the Daily Record he 's been working for them for thirty five years and he asked what how much pension will he have and says that he 's getting four years pension . |
| 11 | Like Costner , David , 40 , has had to guard Whitney from hordes of obsessed fans in the four years he has been working for her . |
| 12 | The person you 've been working with over the last couple of days . |
| 13 | ‘ I have discovered that the black people I have been working with in the inner cities proposed me for the award . |
| 14 | It felt like abandoning all the people we had been working with , whom we had been encouraging to organize and demand their rights . |
| 15 | It so happened that the firm I had been working for ( manufacturers of rubber-coats , ground-sheets , etc. ) had closed down the Glasgow Office and factory , and I was without work . |
| 16 | ‘ Before the student demonstrations I had been working with a group of Latin American intellectuals in Paris , helping bring out a magazine . |
| 17 | And the players I 'd been working with previously went along with me , from using my modified equipment to using my custom-built equipment . |
| 18 | Devaluing activity , assimilating it in analogous models ( art , science , technology ) , design makes of itself models of its practice which deny design ( in the sense we have been working towards here ) both in process and in end . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's some depth they 've been working at , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Tony had been unemployed for 9 months , after the roofing firm he had been working with for a year had gone into liquidation . |
| 21 | When Robert Burrows first became a Christian he had been working on a banana plantation , but some time after his conversion a Salvationist family gave him work on their dairy farm . |
| 22 | Of course he had been working for Hut 6 from the day of his arrival at Bletchley and his duties soon became important . |
| 23 | As a graduate in art history I have been working in the commercial fine art market for several years and frankly I am tired of hearing how galleries make soul destroying demands on artists to become more commercial . |
| 24 | Since she left school she 's been working for the Fish Co-operative in Stockholm Backs , not far from Riddle 's yard . ’ |
| 25 | And anyway I walked past him and he went back and he was sh moaning at her so erm two of the old boys he 'd been working with said whatever 's all that about ? |
| 26 | The Tree has some pretty weird ideas about religion ; he might just swallow the idea he 's been working for the devil all this time . |
| 27 | During the time I have been working for the playgroup I have come into contact with about 200 children . |
| 28 | All this time he had been working like a madman , limping about overseeing the repairs and helping in spite of his own wounds wherever his strength was needed . |