Example sentences of "[noun] had [be] working [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Kelleher had been working in close cooperation with Dr Laurent and there had been long consultations in the Pathology Lab . |
| 2 | Henderson had been working for British secret services for 20 years , it was revealed last night . |
| 3 | Erm and we 're talking about half a thousandth of an inch , and for that you know , the man , but when I investigated the case , the man had been working on these things for about three or four weeks . |
| 4 | Mr Wilson said that police forces had been working with inadequate law for years and that the drafted change would , it was hoped , improve the situation . |
| 5 | The men had been working on 415 volt switchgear at Caldervale High School . |
| 6 | About 700 men had been working at three pit levels up to 560 metres below the ground , over a 2 sq km area . |
| 7 | 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 . |