Example sentences of "[pers pn] had be working [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a standing pose and I had been working at my canvas for a week , my problems were not nearly solved , and the painting still excited me . |
| 2 | Alice was supposed to help but she always woke up too late because she had been working for her exam ; Emmie had to shake her for nearly five minutes before she came up , moaning , out of a deep well of sleep . |
| 3 | She had been working on them ever since she had got home , reading and re-reading the articles , but there was still no clue to unravel the mystery . |
| 4 | And we and then we had been working for him for about ten or eleven years on this contract that he had for us . |
| 5 | His ankle bone had been badly grazed a week before by a metal panel that he had been working on which had slipped from his grasp . |
| 6 | He had been working on it ever since the end of the war , and showing it in whole or in part to his friends . |
| 7 | ACSS was set up by himself and interested friends five years before and he had been working on it since . |
| 8 | He had been working on it for more than ten years . |
| 9 | Gavin Turk , who attracted notice for erecting , as his only contribution to his degree show at the Royal College of Art a year ago , a blue English Heritage plaque announcing that he had been working in his studio for two years , is having a first exhibition at an apartment in Docklands , opposite Canary Wharf ( 1–31 July ; by appointment only , call 071–274 0041 ) . |