Example sentences of "[pron] have [be] working [prep] [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 | 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 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 . |
| 6 | I 've been working on that part of my game and it came off tonight . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been working on this project for two years — two full years with God knows how many people involved . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been working on this for a couple of weeks now . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I mean , dammit all , Charles has been working for 40 years and I 've been working for 22 ’ ) . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been working through all the Peter Carsons in the London directory . |
| 12 | ‘ The way you just came barging over just now — you could have blown everything I 've been working towards sky-high . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | But I have been working on some things especially for Pierantozzi , and hopefully I will get a chance to try them out . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | In France , where I have been working for two years , the government understands the need for cultural things . |
| 18 | ‘ I have been working for 19 months and was on the dole for five years before that , ’ he said . |
| 19 | CEPALC is a non-profit-making organisation which has been working since 1978 to serve the communication needs of grassroots groups in the towns and rural areas of Colombia . |
| 20 | Mm , somebody 's been working on this though have n't they ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It was an appreciative whistle and one that Rachel recognised , for since she 'd been working with five thousand men she had become well used to whistles of that nature . |
| 23 | It was also frustrating for the scientists who 'd been working on this project for more than a decade . |
| 24 | It was good to know that all her veterinary training had come to her aid in spite of the fact that she had been working for two years with small animals only . |
| 25 | She had been so immersed in her anger and indignation that she had been working on automatic pilot herself . |
| 26 | She had been working since seven in the morning . |
| 27 | If you have been working at extreme depth and then call a halt do n't block the holes up . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |