Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [be] working on [adj] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | I 've been working on that part of my game and it came off tonight . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been working on this project for two years — two full years with God knows how many people involved . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been working on this for a couple of weeks now . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Since giving up work to start my family , I have been working on two books — a novel and a cookery book related to my former job ( I was a home economist ) . |
| 9 | But I have been working on some things especially for Pierantozzi , and hopefully I will get a chance to try them out . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | Mm , somebody 's been working on this though have n't they ? |
| 12 | It was also frustrating for the scientists who 'd been working on this project for more than a decade . |
| 13 | She had been so immersed in her anger and indignation that she had been working on automatic pilot herself . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ We have been working on this project for 14 months , and it 's been difficult to persuade people that we have no political objectives . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | But he had been working on that first novel for at least ten years , ever since I 've known him . |
| 21 | According to what we 've been able to piece together using what may be dated information , it 's been working on four lines of development , all using the company 's proprietary 64-bit Sparc implementation and the VME bus . |