Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [be] working [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find myself alone with the steward who tells me has been working on this line for the past twenty-five years . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd been working on that right during training it was more of a natural reaction . ’ |
| 3 | In late August I was finishing my day at the heart clinic , where I had been working for several months , when I decided that it was time to go . |
| 4 | I had been working for more than an hour and my wrists ached from the continuous chopping , but I was filled with an immense exhilaration . |
| 5 | I 've been working on that part of my game and it came off tonight . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been working on this project for two years — two full years with God knows how many people involved . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been working on this for a couple of weeks now . |
| 8 | Because the way that I erm , I 've been working on this procedure and in fact I sense this too , and I have most of what was currently there for research project , project related sub-contracting , in other words sub-contracting with B P or if necessary , which I felt that more or less covered and what it was n't covering was when a Marie type situation on software , where I was going to put a different section , which is where the report , when it 's on research project related company facts , then I pay for the software . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been working through all the Peter Carsons in the London directory . |
| 10 | But I have been working on some things especially for Pierantozzi , and hopefully I will get a chance to try them out . ’ |
| 11 | I have been working on this book about the Prince of Palatine for over 25 years ; I 'll never finish it , but who cares , it 's interesting , especially since I can read seventeenth-century German which very few people can . ’ |
| 12 | Mm , somebody 's been working on this though have n't they ? |
| 13 | If you 'd been working with this angle instead , we did n't know that and we 're trying to work with this one or we say we 're interested in this angle so that will be the opposite and this would be the adjacent . |
| 14 | It was also frustrating for the scientists who 'd been working on this project for more than a decade . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's what we 've been working for all season , ’ said the delighted Whitham , who now has his sights set on the international scene for 1994 , either in Superbikes or the 500cc Grand Prix series . |
| 16 | No Sally 's new at the job , we 've been working at this for for on on the technical front for some time , now let's just sit down and and work out what we 're gon na do . |
| 17 | Ian 's temperament is something he is working on and we 've been working on all the time , but he just seems to be getting maximum publicity at the moment . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ This is n't a sudden change of course — we 've been working on this for a long time and over the last five years have moved our portfolio towards lower cost exploration areas . |
| 19 | I mean , we 've been working towards all this for years , you know ? |
| 20 | ‘ We have been working toward this end . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ We have been working on this project for 14 months , and it 's been difficult to persuade people that we have no political objectives . |
| 23 | Is there anything you can tell me about the two young women who died after they had been working in this house , Theresa Nolan and Diana Travers ? ’ |
| 24 | No individual can sell or receive commission on investment business , unless he has been working for that same Company for at least five continuous years . |
| 25 | He has been working in this vein since the late Sixties , when only hippies , greens and cranks thought it was important . |
| 26 | But he had been working on that first novel for at least ten years , ever since I 've known him . |