Example sentences of "have [been] working [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The forces of evil must have been working smoothly that day because it so happened that the spot he chose was the position within yards of the epicentre of terror that had frightened the railwaymen so many years earlier . |
| 2 | One day , after we had been working together all afternoon without much success , Dana without warning lay back on the bed , his head on the pillow . |
| 3 | So he said oh oh said his moan and groan so he said well I spoke to Blue he said , he 's off sick he said and he gets ninety pounds a week for being at home I 've been working here all week he said , for a hundred and forty so I 'm forty pound a week better off than him ! |
| 4 | Perhaps , thought , they 're people who have been working there all their lives ? |
| 5 | Could it be ( and perhaps this more likely ! ) that machines have been working non-stop all summer , spring and last winter ? |