Example sentences of "[pers pn] had be working [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that I 'd definitely decided to welcome the baby , I 'd have to start planning with a bit more efficiency than in the past , when , so far as one could see , I had been working vaguely on the basis that God would provide ; and why the hell He should in a case like this was probably more than even the most devout believer could have told me . |
| 2 | She resisted adding that she had been working overtime on his designs . |
| 3 | Two minutes later she was tapping on his office door , clutching to her bosom the file of notes and sketches that she had been working on with such enthusiasm all week . |
| 4 | Then , the following week , the essay on Jane Eyre she had been working on for her English class disappeared from her desk . |
| 5 | Maeve sat crouched over a table using a pool of light from a huge candelabra to stab furiously with her needle at a piece of embroidery she had been working on for years . |
| 6 | ‘ We had been working together with the county council for some months and the failure of this appeal was extremely disappointing . |
| 7 | Now there is nothing to prevent plural continuation here ( e.g. They had been working hard for hours ) , but the incidence of such continuations was less than 5% , and continuations mostly were confined to singular references with individuals being in relatively stereotypical roles with respect to each other . |
| 8 | ‘ He had been working well with Pat 's Jester at home and both have been going extremely well . ’ |
| 9 | Eventually the pair connected , and Knuckles presented Owens with a track he had been working on with Japanese musician Satoshi Tomii . |
| 10 | Mr Michael Fallon , who is also schools minister , said it was an historic change which he had been working on with Catholic bishops since November . |
| 11 | Terry had written out a very detailed plan for a farm-school project for juvenile offenders that he had been working on for almost two years . |
| 12 | If he had been working out of the Embassy in Washington , if he was being shunted round the F.B.I . |