Example sentences of "had been working [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this time , Miller told Blair that he had been working with Nathanael St André , ‘ the famous anatomist ’ , examining structures of plants and he believed that together they would make some curious discoveries . |
| 2 | The company had been working with DBase III , but without much joy , simply because of the system 's relative inflexibility and technical complexity . |
| 3 | As had happened before with the labour education programs , the organisations which had been working with Highlander , and which had grown in depth of perspective and experience , took over the running of their own grass roots educational activities . |
| 4 | Being quite intuitive , I did notice there was a funny tension between Ken Pitt and David and I thought that probably what had happened was that David had not been satisfied performing ‘ When I Live My Dream ’ with the old backing tracks , as he had been working with Tony Visconti and had all these new tunes and productions and ways of doing things in his head . |
| 5 | She had been working with IMP for just under a year now and had managed to contribute significantly to their joint effort , so she did n't feel quite as inadequate as she had when she first joined them . |
| 6 | Cecil explained that Pursuit of Love had been working at home with Desert Sun and the recent Newbury winner Rudimentary . |
| 7 | He had been working at tar Processing and the fumes had given him an unpleasant skin complaint . |
| 8 | Hal and Joy had been working at Applecross Cafe for over 10 years . |
| 9 | Christopher Attwooll , prosecuting , said Joyce had been working at Bowler 's Pub in Eston on the night of the burglary . |
| 10 | Miss Trenholme , 29 , and originally from Failsworth , Manchester , had been working at Pinky 's unbeknown to her family , who thought she was employed as a secretary . |
| 11 | ‘ For the last four summers I had been working at Appel Farm Arts and Music Centre in New Jersey as head of music , ’ Ken explained . |
| 12 | The situation did n't improve much during the rest of the week and for the first time since Rachel had been working at OBEX she found herself not looking forward to going to work in the mornings . |
| 13 | If they had been working on fruit trees they 'd come in much higher . |
| 14 | A couple of scientists had been working on Edgeøya for most of the summer , and this young bear had appeared near the old trapper 's hut they were staying in ( which was near the beach where we had landed ) . |
| 15 | I think , because I had been working on Armchair Theatre , I was used to a certain style of drama , so when I saw the first Doctor Who script my first reaction was , after the first half hour , all we were left with was a lot of hairy-chested cavemen jumping around , grunting and going ‘ Ug ’ . |
| 16 | Mr Eaton and colleague Ron Siddle had been working on sea fasteners , fixed to the barge to stop the module moving . |
| 17 | A zoologist by training , he had been working on specimens collected by the Challenger Expedition . |
| 18 | Cos me and my brother had been working on wagon again . |
| 19 | A man in a dark suit across the aisle had been working on business papers since New York . |
| 20 | His mind had been working on ideas for an operation against Pearl Harbor and when the United States Pacific fleet sailed to Hawaii on April 2 , 1940 for manoeuvres Yamamoto followed their progress closely . |
| 21 | We had been working on ideas of time and speed . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Graham Bowstead , Bob Hodgson and Ray Cargill , all Englishmen , had been working for William Lee in London but were on the look out for opportunities to branch out on their own . |
| 24 | Of course he had been working for Hut 6 from the day of his arrival at Bletchley and his duties soon became important . |
| 25 | Hawksmoor had been working for Wren since he was 18 and Castle Howard was very probably modelled on Wren 's proposed plan for Hampton Court ( which never got beyond the drawing board ) . |
| 26 | Throughout the trial the brothers had maintained that they had been working as agents for the British Government in Dublin . |
| 27 | In 1911 Wren had been working in India for less than eight years . |
| 28 | They wheeled him rapidly into Resus. , Kathleen snapping out instructions right , left and centre , but as they peeled back the blanket to examine him , even Kathleen after all the years she had been working in A and E was shocked at the extent of his injuries . |
| 29 | Luck had been on Cassie 's side up until now , for Stephanie had been working in Germany for the past few weeks and this circumstance had removed the necessity of proffering an invitation ; with , of course , the desirable Martin in attendance . |
| 30 | She had been working in Poole as a trading standards officer and has moved to London to earn more money to pay for the venture . |