Example sentences of "[pers pn] had be working [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think , because I had been working on Armchair Theatre , I was used to a certain style of drama , so when I saw the first Doctor Who script my first reaction was , after the first half hour , all we were left with was a lot of hairy-chested cavemen jumping around , grunting and going ‘ Ug ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ For the last four summers I had been working at Appel Farm Arts and Music Centre in New Jersey as head of music , ’ Ken explained . |
| 3 | She had been working with IMP for just under a year now and had managed to contribute significantly to their joint effort , so she did n't feel quite as inadequate as she had when she first joined them . |
| 4 | She had been working in Poole as a trading standards officer and has moved to London to earn more money to pay for the venture . |
| 5 | They wheeled him rapidly into Resus. , Kathleen snapping out instructions right , left and centre , but as they peeled back the blanket to examine him , even Kathleen after all the years she had been working in A and E was shocked at the extent of his injuries . |
| 6 | We had been working on ideas of time and speed . |
| 7 | Throughout the trial the brothers had maintained that they had been working as agents for the British Government in Dublin . |
| 8 | If they had been working on fruit trees they 'd come in much higher . |
| 9 | A zoologist by training , he had been working on specimens collected by the Challenger Expedition . |
| 10 | At this time , Miller told Blair that he had been working with Nathanael St André , ‘ the famous anatomist ’ , examining structures of plants and he believed that together they would make some curious discoveries . |
| 11 | Being quite intuitive , I did notice there was a funny tension between Ken Pitt and David and I thought that probably what had happened was that David had not been satisfied performing ‘ When I Live My Dream ’ with the old backing tracks , as he had been working with Tony Visconti and had all these new tunes and productions and ways of doing things in his head . |
| 12 | He had been working at tar Processing and the fumes had given him an unpleasant skin complaint . |
| 13 | Ken , meanwhile , believed he had found a play that suited his temperament and talents better than most of the things on which he had been working to date . |
| 14 | Of course he had been working for Hut 6 from the day of his arrival at Bletchley and his duties soon became important . |
| 15 | He had been working in San Francisco at the time , still learning his trade , revelling in the whole carefree Californian ethos , the sense of shackles dropping , of new horizons glimmering . |