Example sentences of "[pron] have [be] working [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | But I have been working on some things especially for Pierantozzi , and hopefully I will get a chance to try them out . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | In France , where I have been working for two years , the government understands the need for cultural things . |
| 5 | ‘ I have been working for 19 months and was on the dole for five years before that , ’ he said . |
| 6 | If you have been working at extreme depth and then call a halt do n't block the holes up . |
| 7 | ‘ We have been working toward this end . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We have been working at improving race relations in Britain for over 30 years , under successive Governments . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ We have been working on this project for 14 months , and it 's been difficult to persuade people that we have no political objectives . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They have been working in small groups to show the lives of a small rural town as yet unconnected to the railway . |