Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [be] working [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think what was different in my approach , and it partly goes back to my background , is that firstly I had been working on educational planning , and that secondly I come from a background of market research . |
| 2 | ‘ The way you just came barging over just now — you could have blown everything I 've been working towards sky-high . ’ |
| 3 | I 'm erm I 've been working in low cost housing , housing charities , for a very long time , with Shelter and various other charities like that , and I never cease to be amazed that the Conservative Group , here or nationally , are hostile to subsidies for council housing , because the subsidy which goes to owner-occupiers , through mortgage tax relief , is very much greater than the subsidy that goes to council housing and there 's nothing we as a Council can do about this , but I do hope that in due course we will get a fair system of subsidising houses for everybody , so that wealthy people on high incomes who are getting a big subsidy on their housing through their tax relief , erm are not getting more than people on low incomes living in council houses . |
| 4 | She had been so immersed in her anger and indignation that she had been working on automatic pilot herself . |
| 5 | If you have been working at extreme depth and then call a halt do n't block the holes up . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We have been working at improving race relations in Britain for over 30 years , under successive Governments . |
| 8 | Recently we have been working on other corpora , including a 26-million word corpus , much larger than the LOB Corpus , but more restricted , in that it consists of newspaper reports . |
| 9 | There they have been working with individual patients who , for one reason or another , spend most of their lives sitting down — some of them in wheelchairs , unable to walk at all . |
| 10 | They have been working in small groups to show the lives of a small rural town as yet unconnected to the railway . |
| 11 | ‘ Recently he has been working on American films and he was very keen to get back home and work with some of his old mates . |
| 12 | Rainow , Cheshire-based Eden says that it has been working with unnamed telecommunications operators and user groups on the design of the phone , and envisages both business customers and consumers being interested in the device . |
| 13 | Additionally , he 's been working with Left Hand Right Hand , who 've just toured the States , while his other musical activities have seen him involved with British Racing Green and Danielle Dax , with whom he plays bass from time to time . |