Example sentences of "had been working as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The eldest daughter , Elizabeth McGuire , had been working as a farm servant ( See Chapter 6 ) . |
| 2 | Val had four children aged between seventeen and six , and had been working as a childminder at home to supplement the family income . |
| 3 | Edith Thomas was married at seventeen : she had been working as a barmaid at the Miner 's Arms and she was married from there . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , Liddell had been working as a field missionary in war-torn Siaochang . |
| 5 | I had been working as a dai ( midwife ) for the Government since 1974 , but I resigned when they stopped paying my salary and only paid me if I brought in patients to be sterilized . |
| 6 | Mr Telford , who took redundancy from the pit in 1988 and had been working as a mining contractor at Rossington , near Doncaster , allegedly threatened a man with the gun to gain entry . |
| 7 | who had been working as an assistant to an Essex doctor , joined the practice , which was then at its zenith . |