Example sentences of "[pron] had been working [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been working as a dai ( midwife ) for the Government since 1974 , but I resigned when they stopped paying my salary and only paid me if I brought in patients to be sterilized . |
| 2 | ‘ Before the student demonstrations I had been working with a group of Latin American intellectuals in Paris , helping bring out a magazine . |
| 3 | I had been working for the Countess as a personal assistant since she married the Earl in 1976 . |
| 4 | Mgr José Cardoso Sobrinho , a conservative who had replaced Câmara when the latter retired in 1984 , called a halt to church involvement in human rights work in the archdiocese ; on Dec. 7 , 1989 , he dissolved a justice and peace committee which had been working with the poor , while on Dec. 14 eight priests , two of them French , were ordered to leave the diocese immediately . |
| 5 | The ex-London United cars which had been working on the Croydon — Mitcham route were now transferred to the Sutton route , to work alongside the J type cars ( 1s-16s ) , four of which were withdrawn and sent to Brixton Hill . |
| 6 | She had been working at the Hopeland missionary camp , helping educate teenage boys . |
| 7 | Edith Thomas was married at seventeen : she had been working as a barmaid at the Miner 's Arms and she was married from there . |
| 8 | during the break , after we had done this segment of the film and had gone into the canteen for lunch , all the people who had been working on the film were whistling the song . |
| 9 | Thinking fatigue had got the better of his tired mind , Jack Hayden did not worry unduly until the following Monday morning when a porter who had been working on the station Platform came to the mess room and saw a strange figure looking at Mr Hayden . |
| 10 | He was a friend of Mark 's — an actor friend , who had been working on the same film as Mark when he had died . |
| 11 | Victim one : Liverpool-born theatre director and choreographer Peter Walker , who had been working on the hit musical , City of Angels , was found strangled , his naked body trussed up on his bed at his home in Battersea , on March 8 . |
| 12 | who had been working as an assistant to an Essex doctor , joined the practice , which was then at its zenith . |
| 13 | He was clad in the same white coveralls as the half-dozen policemen who had been working over the room , like a coven of wraiths . |
| 14 | The plain shimmered below a cloudless sky , and it was not unusual to hear that some contadino ( peasant ) who had been working in the afternoon heat had been taken to the local hospital suffering or even dying from sunstroke . |
| 15 | Glasgow University 's recently published study of homelessness among the young in Scotland simply highlights the facts which have been known to anyone who had been working in the social security system in whatever capacity for a number of years . |
| 16 | Eleven who had been working near the point of irruption had died in the torrent of stinking , clinging , liquid peat . |
| 17 | They had been working about a mile along a blind underground roadway , ending at what is due to be a new coal face , when the roof fell in 500 yards behind them . |
| 18 | Other European countries said that the new British Government would be positive and co-operative and would put forward proposals for bringing about the completion of the European Community , for which they had been working for the past 40 years . |
| 19 | Mr Siddle , of Hesleden Avenue , Acklam , Middlesbrough , said they had been working on the operation the previous day and the pipe kept jamming when attempts were made to slot it into place . |
| 20 | Writing the software was somewhat tedious , but having to work at this level did help the designers to get away from preconceptions about interaction which they might have had if they had been working within the input/output facilities provided by a conventional mini or mainframe operating system ( for example , that it needs a RETURN to terminate user input or that the operating system can properly handle the echoing of characters to the terminal ) . |
| 21 | A site has yet to be secured — although the Mountain View , California-based company said it had been working on the plans for some 18 months — and a choice will be announced within 60 days , according to Sun 's chief financial officer , Kevin Melia . |
| 22 | King Jigme Singye Wangchuck speaking in New Delhi on his arrival in India on Sept. 9 for a four-day official visit , said that he did not consider a monarchy to be the best system of government and that he had been working towards the greater democratization of his country . |
| 23 | When Robert Burrows first became a Christian he had been working on a banana plantation , but some time after his conversion a Salvationist family gave him work on their dairy farm . |
| 24 | He had been working on a new series for BBC Radio 2 which is due to be broadcast next spring . |
| 25 | He was surprised all the same ; he had been working on a case which , while not exactly undercover , was one demanding some secrecy . |
| 26 | After all , he had been working on the theory for twenty years , and did not want to see himself scooped by an outsider . |
| 27 | Local people said he had been working on the site for two years and was very popular with them . |
| 28 | He had been working with the police all along ! |
| 29 | He had been working at the Council depot as an attendant when Joe offered him the job , and he had been very pleased to make the change . |
| 30 | He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act . |