Example sentences of "he had [adv] been working " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had papers in front of him , but Wycliffe felt sure that he had not been working . |
| 2 | He had a half-beard and he looked dirty , as if he had just been working with hammers and bricks and wood and chisels . |
| 3 | He brought with him his own group of masons , and a letter of introduction from Humphrey Lovell , the queen 's master mason , according to which he had previously been working for Sir Francis Knollys [ q.v. ] , probably at Caversham House , near Reading . |
| 4 | so he had n't been working , earning money , he knocked a hole in the dining room from the lounge wall yesterday |
| 5 | If so , he had certainly been working later than usual . |