Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [adv] be working [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you remember that evening — I had n't been working for you for very long — and you gave me a lift home ? ’ |
| 2 | I had recently been working on Orwell 's radio scripts in the BBC 's Written Archive Centre at Caversham , one of the most important archives for modern British history outside the Public Record Office , and here in this room in Sackville Street were books written by all the authors and broadcasters I had grown familiar with , who were working at the time George Orwell was broadcasting and before . |
| 3 | They had n't been working on the slate face , they had n't worked any slate , but they were doing all right on the tables , you know on the sawing the slate up for the others . |
| 4 | They had all been working at stone-gathering , keeping their pageant money out of sight for fear the constables mark them as robbers or miracle-workers . |
| 5 | He had a half-beard and he looked dirty , as if he had just been working with hammers and bricks and wood and chisels . |
| 6 | He brought with him his own group of masons , and a letter of introduction from Humphrey Lovell , the queen 's master mason , according to which he had previously been working for Sir Francis Knollys [ q.v. ] , probably at Caversham House , near Reading . |