Example sentences of "[pron] have [be] working on [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 | I 've been working on that part of my game and it came off tonight . ’ |
4 | ‘ I 've been working on this project for two years — two full years with God knows how many people involved . |
5 | ‘ I 've been working on this for a couple of weeks now . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | But I have been working on some things especially for Pierantozzi , and hopefully I will get a chance to try them out . ’ |
8 | 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 . ’ |
9 | Mm , somebody 's been working on this though have n't they ? |
10 | It was also frustrating for the scientists who 'd been working on this project for more than a decade . |
11 | 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 . ’ |
12 | ‘ 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | ‘ We have been working on this project for 14 months , and it 's been difficult to persuade people that we have no political objectives . |
15 | But he had been working on that first novel for at least ten years , ever since I 've known him . |