Example sentences of "[pron] have [been] working [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fletcher said : ‘ Our batting department has let us down in both Tests , although everyone has been working hard on their game and how to combat their spinners on turning pitches . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd been working solidly for eighteen months , ’ she pointed out . |
| 3 | Now that I 'd definitely decided to welcome the baby , I 'd have to start planning with a bit more efficiency than in the past , when , so far as one could see , I had been working vaguely on the basis that God would provide ; and why the hell He should in a case like this was probably more than even the most devout believer could have told me . |
| 4 | ‘ Yeah , it 's a collection of tunes that I 've been working on for a while . |
| 5 | I 've been working here for fourteen years but I ca n't buy postage stamps without his say-so . |
| 6 | I 've been working here for seven years now and I really enjoy my job . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been working here since early morning . ’ |
| 8 | Fortunately , I had my suspicions about it right from the start , so I 've been working closely with the police to help clear it up . ’ |
| 9 | I 've been working abroad for the last twenty years , I 've just come back to the U K and my family 's all died , and I do n't know anybody , and I 'm going to start off working here . |
| 10 | I 've been working mainly on girls ' education really from about eighteen ninety to about nineteen thirty and that 's what has mainly occupied me research wise . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been working personally with these pickups for some time , putting them on Teles and Strats and all kinds of things , ’ says Paul . |
| 12 | I 've been working hard at getting fit again . |
| 13 | I 've been working hard with Gill to get into top form for the Olympics so singles play has taken a bit of a back seat . |
| 14 | I 've been working hard with Gill to get into top form for the Olympics so singles play has taken a bit of a back seat . |
| 15 | Over the past four years , since True Confessions , I have been working more on straight drama . |
| 16 | ‘ Now I have been working hard on my fitness and my ankle has improved . ’ |
| 17 | Instead , the UK accountancy bodies would rather see the Commission adopt the guidelines of the International Accounting Standards Committee ( IASC ) , which has been working progressively towards the international harmonisation of the rules by which companies report . |
| 18 | He is part of a multidisciplinary team which has been working together since 1984 . |
| 19 | Recently , she has been working closely with the stylist Judy Blame , ‘ as his sort of taste bud ’ , styling Neneh Cherry , Tackhead and new artist Harriet . |
| 20 | She has been working out in Sierra Leone for some years and has been taking children off the streets and teaching them the basics of domestic skills and education . ’ |
| 21 | It was a planned pregnancy , and she 'd been working hard at getting her blood sugar under control , but that often ca n't be done overnight . ’ |
| 22 | She resisted adding that she had been working overtime on his designs . |
| 23 | Two minutes later she was tapping on his office door , clutching to her bosom the file of notes and sketches that she had been working on with such enthusiasm all week . |
| 24 | Then , the following week , the essay on Jane Eyre she had been working on for her English class disappeared from her desk . |
| 25 | Maeve sat crouched over a table using a pool of light from a huge candelabra to stab furiously with her needle at a piece of embroidery she had been working on for years . |
| 26 | The first and third shows , ( dis ) parities and countervail , profile with work of two groups of women who have been working collectively for a number of years . |
| 27 | Erm the housing need figure we 've been working on for Greater York has been nine thousand seven hundred and that 's been based on the parishes within the Greater York study area . |
| 28 | In the U K the improvement plans we 've been working on for the last two years have been very successfully implemented but they 've been overtaken by the U K recession . |
| 29 | And then at the end we will run a single lecture , a kind of gee whizz lecture , something that shows the applications of the ideas we 've been working on during the day to some particularly unusual branch of physics . |
| 30 | ‘ Hours of watching Ruddock on video revealed that he had a tendency to drop his left hand low , so he was wide open to my right and we 've been working hard on a left-right combination , ’ he explained . |