Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be working [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been working in a factory , but I had to give that up because I could n't afford a nursery . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Before the student demonstrations I had been working with a group of Latin American intellectuals in Paris , helping bring out a magazine . |
| 4 | Probably wo n't come as a surprise to you , but er , I 've been working on a training system . |
| 5 | Senior Midland area and I 've been working on a job in Coventry which is basically work er what I hope to get mainly out of this course is an increased level of personal confidence so I can overcome basic nervousness when speaking . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been working on a report and I 've only just realised how late it is . |
| 7 | I 've been working for a company that constructs oil rigs and my job involved a lot of moving around . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been working in a hotel since I left school — up until the flood that was . |
| 9 | I 've been working in a male environment now for several years , and I 've got quite used to hearing my colleagues speculate about me and my private life ! |
| 10 | For more weeks than I care to remember I have been working on a Panorama programme designed to look at the future of the Tory Party , even beyond Thatcherism . |
| 11 | ‘ I have been working for a moment like this for nine years and finally it has arrived . |
| 12 | I have been working for a moment like this for nine years and finally it has arrived . |
| 13 | She has been working as a nurse practitioner on a general surgical firm at the Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust since August . |
| 14 | Lately she has been working as a $10-an-hour dresser at local fashion shows and answering phones at an aerobics studio . |
| 15 | ‘ You 've been working like a Trojan all day ! ’ |
| 16 | Edith Thomas was married at seventeen : she had been working as a barmaid at the Miner 's Arms and she was married from there . |
| 17 | As well as developing these national awards we have been working with a number of employers and other organisations to develop awards which are tailored to their individual needs . |
| 18 | ‘ But we have been working on a few things , just as we did before the first leg . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Many people find that they return to the same company over and over again , or take up a permanent job offer at a place they have been working for a while . |
| 21 | Oh yes , indeed , a close friend of mine has been working on a history of a very large British company and he 's just seen the proofs produced from the printers from the typescript which was typed in his own office , and apart from the fact that their computers can change the typefaces and improve the whole thing , the work has not had to be rekeyboarded , as they would say , retyped in , at all . |
| 22 | When this incident occurred he 'd been working on a project in Harlow in Essex setting up another system . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ Nutrition , ’ John said , after he had been working for a short time . |
| 28 | All this time he had been working like a madman , limping about overseeing the repairs and helping in spite of his own wounds wherever his strength was needed . |
| 29 | He had been working in a shop known as the coal bunker when the two assassins burst in , one carrying a shotgun . |
| 30 | According to that , he 's been working as a barman . ’ |