Example sentences of "have be working [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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31 Oh , yes , indeed , a close friend of mine has been working on the history of a very large British company and he 's just seen the proofs produced from the printers from the typescript which was typed in his own office , and apart from the fact that their computers can change the typefaces and improve the whole thing , the work has not had to be re-keyboarded , as they would say , re-typed in at all .
32 Sometimes , when he has been working in the garden , he will come in and sit down , then out again and does a bit more .
33 Pauline Dungate has been working in the church for quite a few years , and she knows the man who lives in the cemetery from time to time .
34 I hope your mind has been working in an expansive way and that you have thought more about your future .
35 ‘ I fancied a change of scene from London where I 'd been working with the Bank of England in-house catering team ’ she said .
36 When this incident occurred he 'd been working on a project in Harlow in Essex setting up another system .
37 It was a freezing cold day and I 'd been sitting there in nothing but these dungarees that I 'd been working on the roof in .
38 Mind you in between that I 'd been working on the fa farm farm .
39 Yes well we I I 'd been working on the Menai Suspension Bridge repa you know , when they were rep doing the repairing like .
40 I 'd been working in a factory , but I had to give that up because I could n't afford a nursery .
41 Dot knew from their voices that those two young men who 'd been working in the fields must be prisoners .
42 He 'd been working in the welded body section at the time .
43 He must have been working on the paper about the same time as he was writing the papers of Totem and Taboo , or just afterwards .
44 A separate report indicated that Iran may have been working on the development of such a weapon on and off for a good decade .
45 So , let's think about our objectives , first of all an objective , I might have come to Abbey Life to make money , last year , I might have been working in a factory , earning fifteen , twelve , fifteen thousand a year , and I might make my objective in my first year with Abbey Life to earn sixty thousand pounds .
46 It is true that the two eldest sons , William 19 or 20 , and Thomas 16 or 17 , might have been working in the mine as subsidiary members of a gang and are unrecorded in accounts .
47 Having been working on a drama spontaneously , the class ( either as a whole group , or in small groups ) are asked to consider the most important moment in the story so far , and to represent that moment as a still image .
48 The heaviest copper head from Ife weighs almost 7 kg so the Ife smiths seem to have been working at the limits of this technique .
49 ‘ Mr C S Jones ( Lab ) , Leicester NW — Will the Government now publish the report on which Mr S J L Summerchild is known to have been working at the time of his death ? — The report has already been published as Cmnd. 4078 . ’
50 With sufficient manipulation of the rota , it would be possible to arrange for the work-force to have been working for the same number of hours at different times of the day — condition ( 2 ) .
51 King Jigme Singye Wangchuck speaking in New Delhi on his arrival in India on Sept. 9 for a four-day official visit , said that he did not consider a monarchy to be the best system of government and that he had been working towards the greater democratization of his country .
52 He was clad in the same white coveralls as the half-dozen policemen who had been working over the room , like a coven of wraiths .
53 Mr Mowatt and Mr Pirrie had been working through the user directories , archiving files for retention , and deleting others as advised by users .
54 He had been working since the 1820s on his theory that ‘ grand geometrical lines ’ had been laid out in ancient times across the country and that these were indicated by old boundaries and markers .
55 There were gulls flying and calling , but I had not disturbed the main colony , and I thought that I would have heard if he had been working below the cliffs at the north-west point .
56 By chance Rose had spoken to the right person as Taylor had been working with a hydrogen diffusion cloud chamber which is potentially well suited for such a task .
57 ‘ Before the student demonstrations I had been working with a group of Latin American intellectuals in Paris , helping bring out a magazine .
58 Mgr José Cardoso Sobrinho , a conservative who had replaced Câmara when the latter retired in 1984 , called a halt to church involvement in human rights work in the archdiocese ; on Dec. 7 , 1989 , he dissolved a justice and peace committee which had been working with the poor , while on Dec. 14 eight priests , two of them French , were ordered to leave the diocese immediately .
59 Grossbancher , an executive with the French company Bouygues Offshore , had been working with the Angolan state oil company Sonangol .
60 He had been working with the police all along !
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