Example sentences of "had be working [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eastern Creek was n't scorching hot and yet Kenny Roberts revealed the Dunlops had been working at their best in the blazing heat of qualifying . |
| 2 | It was a standing pose and I had been working at my canvas for a week , my problems were not nearly solved , and the painting still excited me . |
| 3 | Dustin had been working at his antique desk all morning on contact sheets of his wedding pictures , taken almost a year before , trying to pick out the ones to develop . |
| 4 | She had been working on them ever since she had got home , reading and re-reading the articles , but there was still no clue to unravel the mystery . |
| 5 | The best place for Jed during all of this , she 'd decided , would be with his minder ; she 'd worked out a special weekend rate with Mrs Neary some time ago and had been working on her conscience ever since . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Erm yes erm well at the ti at first I could only move my head , but when I went on that holiday , St Giles had been working on me with nerve machines and muscle machines |
| 8 | He had been working on it ever since the end of the war , and showing it in whole or in part to his friends . |
| 9 | ACSS was set up by himself and interested friends five years before and he had been working on it since . |
| 10 | He had been working on it for more than ten years . |
| 11 | This bloke , you know , had been working on it for fifty years nonstop and |
| 12 | Graham had been working on his yacht , the Sea Eagle , during a break on a long sailing trip , when he suffered an electric shock . |
| 13 | Alice was supposed to help but she always woke up too late because she had been working for her exam ; Emmie had to shake her for nearly five minutes before she came up , moaning , out of a deep well of sleep . |
| 14 | Roy had been working for him since three weeks after his wedding , and he hated it . |
| 15 | Mr Davidson 's father , Robert Snr , said Mrs Holmes had been working for him for the last eight years . |
| 16 | And we and then we had been working for him for about ten or eleven years on this contract that he had for us . |
| 17 | Matisse , who was one of the first of the painters of his generation to appreciate the true genius of Cézanne , had been working under his influence since 1899 , the year in which he bought Cézanne 's Trois Baigneuses from Vollard , choosing it in preference to an Arlésienne by Van Gogh , and in the figure pieces that lead up to the Bonheur , the influence of Cézanne is immediately obvious . |
| 18 | Eva had been working as his second for a number of years . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | Lucy Lane had been working in his team for three years but he felt that he knew her only a little better than he had done after her first month . |
| 21 | Throughout his life several elements had been working within him : a deep knowledge and appreciation of the countryside , a sharp mind and a willingness to learn . |
| 22 | Here he dismounted and prayed that whatever spirit had been working within him would continue to work , that this furious feeling of benevolence to all mind — if only a beggar would pass by and he could give him a shilling ! — would not abate , that he ‘ could truly and today start a new life , O Lord , for Thy sake and in Thy name ’ . |