Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] had be working [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in 1877 , the last text overseen by the novelist , ‘ as if spoken to himself ’ becomes ‘ as if meant for himself ’ , shifting and refining nuance while involving the change of a single word in Russian , and enabling the artist to get at last the effect he had been working towards . |
| 2 | It so happened that the firm I had been working for ( manufacturers of rubber-coats , ground-sheets , etc. ) had closed down the Glasgow Office and factory , and I was without work . |
| 3 | Tony had been unemployed for 9 months , after the roofing firm he had been working with for a year had gone into liquidation . |
| 4 | When Robert Burrows first became a Christian he had been working on a banana plantation , but some time after his conversion a Salvationist family gave him work on their dairy farm . |
| 5 | Of course he had been working for Hut 6 from the day of his arrival at Bletchley and his duties soon became important . |
| 6 | All this time he had been working like a madman , limping about overseeing the repairs and helping in spite of his own wounds wherever his strength was needed . |