Example sentences of "he [verb] be working on " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Recently he has been working on American films and he was very keen to get back home and work with some of his old mates . |
2 | Lately he has been working on paintings of trees , large-sized drawings of nudes , painted low-reliefs in wood and a series of portraits of poets in which snippets from their work are inscribed ( Beats Alan Ginsberg and Gregory Corso appear in the show ) . |
3 | When this incident occurred he 'd been working on a project in Harlow in Essex setting up another system . |
4 | He had been working on it ever since the end of the war , and showing it in whole or in part to his friends . |
5 | But he had been working on that first novel for at least ten years , ever since I 've known him . |
6 | ACSS was set up by himself and interested friends five years before and he had been working on it since . |
7 | He had been working on it for more than ten years . |
8 | A zoologist by training , he had been working on specimens collected by the Challenger Expedition . |
9 | After all , he had been working on the theory for twenty years , and did not want to see himself scooped by an outsider . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | His ankle bone had been badly grazed a week before by a metal panel that he had been working on which had slipped from his grasp . |
12 | He had been working on a new series for BBC Radio 2 which is due to be broadcast next spring . |
13 | Local people said he had been working on the site for two years and was very popular with them . |
14 | He was surprised all the same ; he had been working on a case which , while not exactly undercover , was one demanding some secrecy . |