Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [be] working [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In late August I was finishing my day at the heart clinic , where I had been working for several months , when I decided that it was time to go . |
| 2 | I had been working for more than an hour and my wrists ached from the continuous chopping , but I was filled with an immense exhilaration . |
| 3 | I think what was different in my approach , and it partly goes back to my background , is that firstly I had been working on educational planning , and that secondly I come from a background of market research . |
| 4 | It was good to know that all her veterinary training had come to her aid in spite of the fact that she had been working for two years with small animals only . |
| 5 | She had been so immersed in her anger and indignation that she had been working on automatic pilot herself . |
| 6 | She had been working since seven in the morning . |
| 7 | Is there anything you can tell me about the two young women who died after they had been working in this house , Theresa Nolan and Diana Travers ? ’ |
| 8 | But he had been working on that first novel for at least ten years , ever since I 've known him . |
| 9 | If he had been working for three days and three nights then it was in the suit he was wearing now , and his shoes had mud on them , and Erlich did n't think Ruane would be impressed . |
| 10 | The strain of trying to do everything himself was taking a toll ; after one almost incoherent letter he explained that he had been working from 8 a.m. until midnight , had not eaten and so ‘ was thoroughly depressed and vague ’ . |