Example sentences of "he [verb] [be] working [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He had been working with the police all along ! |
| 32 | He had been working at tar Processing and the fumes had given him an unpleasant skin complaint . |
| 33 | He had been working at the Council depot as an attendant when Joe offered him the job , and he had been very pleased to make the change . |
| 34 | Ken , meanwhile , believed he had found a play that suited his temperament and talents better than most of the things on which he had been working to date . |
| 35 | He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act . |
| 36 | Of course he had been working for Hut 6 from the day of his arrival at Bletchley and his duties soon became important . |
| 37 | The case of Kenneth Littlejohn had been prominent in the news during the year and they had the impression that he had been working for the Home Office . |
| 38 | If he had been working for three days and three nights then it was in the suit he was wearing now , and his shoes had mud on them , and Erlich did n't think Ruane would be impressed . |
| 39 | ‘ Nutrition , ’ John said , after he had been working for a short time . |
| 40 | He had been working for the Cyrenians at an annex to the Simon House Hostel for the Homeless in Rectory Road Oxford . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | 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 ) . |
| 45 | He had been working in San Francisco at the time , still learning his trade , revelling in the whole carefree Californian ethos , the sense of shackles dropping , of new horizons glimmering . |
| 46 | He had been working in a shop known as the coal bunker when the two assassins burst in , one carrying a shotgun . |
| 47 | The strain of trying to do everything himself was taking a toll ; after one almost incoherent letter he explained that he had been working from 8 a.m. until midnight , had not eaten and so ‘ was thoroughly depressed and vague ’ . |
| 48 | He 's been working since |
| 49 | He 's been working for it for years . |
| 50 | The Tree has some pretty weird ideas about religion ; he might just swallow the idea he 's been working for the devil all this time . |
| 51 | ‘ He 's been working for you ? ’ |
| 52 | Well obviously the sad reality of the thing does n't come home to , to our countrymen and a man comes up last week and tells me that he 's been paid off by the Daily Record he 's been working for them for thirty five years and he asked what how much pension will he have and says that he 's getting four years pension . |
| 53 | No but I mean , I do n't mean wh I do n't mean where he 's been working for the corporation , I mean before when he 's had these various jobs and they 've finished and he 's had , you know , the job 's finished and they 've had to go somewhere . |
| 54 | Additionally , he 's been working with Left Hand Right Hand , who 've just toured the States , while his other musical activities have seen him involved with British Racing Green and Danielle Dax , with whom he plays bass from time to time . |
| 55 | Regular access to a lab has provided Dawson with facilities to experiment , and he 's been working with solarisation , changing the colour of the base of the film . |
| 56 | Regular access to a lab has provided Dawson with facilities to experiment , and he 's been working with solarisation , changing the colour of the base of the film . |
| 57 | According to that , he 's been working as a barman . ’ |
| 58 | Our latest information is that he 's been working as a waiter at a bar called Flamingo . ’ |
| 59 | Apparently he 's been working in Australia , on oil rigs , I believe . ’ |