Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [be] working on " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mind had been working on ideas for an operation against Pearl Harbor and when the United States Pacific fleet sailed to Hawaii on April 2 , 1940 for manoeuvres Yamamoto followed their progress closely . |
| 2 | A man in a dark suit across the aisle had been working on business papers since New York . |
| 3 | Both accounts demonstrate that , until Stanislav Ulam 's observation that X-rays could be used to propagate an instant fusion reaction , Teller had been working on a fundamentally impractical design . |
| 4 | She was convinced now that her husband had been working on a book about The Hell Fire Club and … |
| 5 | His father had been working on the farm and he had been sitting at the door of the hut . |
| 6 | Erm and we 're talking about half a thousandth of an inch , and for that you know , the man , but when I investigated the case , the man had been working on these things for about three or four weeks . |
| 7 | Jeopardy and Amber had been working on a piece which they intended to perform when Mandru returned home . |
| 8 | Cos me and my brother had been working on wagon again . |
| 9 | He had been reading the notes of Wittgenstein , he said , who before his death had been working on the relation between the private , sensuous experience of colour and the universal language of colour words with which we appear to be able to communicate it . |
| 10 | Dai 's family had been working on the farmlands around Rhydoldog for generations . |