Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [be] working [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean were working with five at the minute , we 'll go to that place and double it up to say ten and by this time next , next year there 's not any reason why it should n't be more to sixteen |
| 2 | I 've been working on that part of my game and it came off tonight . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been working on this project for two years — two full years with God knows how many people involved . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been working on this for a couple of weeks now . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I mean , dammit all , Charles has been working for 40 years and I 've been working for 22 ’ ) . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been working through all the Peter Carsons in the London directory . |
| 8 | ‘ The way you just came barging over just now — you could have blown everything I 've been working towards sky-high . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | But I have been working on some things especially for Pierantozzi , and hopefully I will get a chance to try them out . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | In France , where I have been working for two years , the government understands the need for cultural things . |
| 14 | ‘ I have been working for 19 months and was on the dole for five years before that , ’ he said . |
| 15 | If you have been working at extreme depth and then call a halt do n't block the holes up . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | I mean , we 've been working towards all this for years , you know ? |
| 21 | ‘ We have been working toward this end . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | We have been working at improving race relations in Britain for over 30 years , under successive Governments . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ We have been working on this project for 14 months , and it 's been difficult to persuade people that we have no political objectives . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They have been working in small groups to show the lives of a small rural town as yet unconnected to the railway . |