Example sentences of "we [verb] be working [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's what we 've been working for all season , ’ said the delighted Whitham , who now has his sights set on the international scene for 1994 , either in Superbikes or the 500cc Grand Prix series . |
| 2 | The other , the other thing that we worked , w we 've been working with , and are still working with , erm to take up campaign for tenants in who 're on Supplementary Benefit or Housing Benefit supplement , erm to claim the higher rate heating addition for their flat . |
| 3 | The , we 've been working with the water authorities as I said , they 've pulled all the stops out to provide the actual water resource and we 've provided the tanks and the distribution systems . |
| 4 | It 's what we 've been working at for the last three years . |
| 5 | No Sally 's new at the job , we 've been working at this for for on on the technical front for some time , now let's just sit down and and work out what we 're gon na do . |
| 6 | Yes , I think that as David said one of the things that we 've been working at very hard in recent years in teacher training is to try to improve the quality and the content of reading courses generally , and then I think it is also necessary to draw attention to teachers of this problem of dyslexia . |
| 7 | Like the grave-diggers in Hamlet , they speculated on life : ‘ We 've been working on it for 25 years and we still have n't got round . |
| 8 | Ian 's temperament is something he is working on and we 've been working on all the time , but he just seems to be getting maximum publicity at the moment . ’ |
| 9 | We 've been working on the Panch Chule expedition for a year , but it 's just the odd day basically . |
| 10 | We 've been working on the project for quite some time . |
| 11 | ‘ This is n't a sudden change of course — we 've been working on this for a long time and over the last five years have moved our portfolio towards lower cost exploration areas . |
| 12 | For the past 10 years we 've been working on synthesising the chemical ; now we 're trying to see if the European Yew will provide the starter material for producing anti-cancer activity . |
| 13 | ‘ We 've been working on the show since Christmas and hope the audiences enjoy it as much as we do , ’ said Vivien . |
| 14 | I mean , we 've been working towards all this for years , you know ? |
| 15 | Er , we 've been working in Harlow for a couple of years now and as you may know , we as Paul said , finished the first phase of Three Hills which is the Ayletts Field scheme which provided sixty six properties for a low cost home ownership and two special needs properties and we 'll also be starting in the next couple of months er , on providing low cost home ownership in Church Langley erm it 's funded by yo , yourselves . |
| 16 | We had been working on ideas of time and speed . |
| 17 | And we and then we had been working for him for about ten or eleven years on this contract that he had for us . |
| 18 | It felt like abandoning all the people we had been working with , whom we had been encouraging to organize and demand their rights . |
| 19 | ‘ We have been working toward this end . ’ |
| 20 | For years now , at the Women 's Nutritional Advisory Service , we have been working with people who have needed to make dietary changes for the sake of their health . |
| 21 | As well as developing these national awards we have been working with a number of employers and other organisations to develop awards which are tailored to their individual needs . |
| 22 | Because of our experience at Scone Park and in many other projects in the twelve years we have been working with young offenders , we , along with the other children 's charities , oppose the government 's proposals on persistent young offenders . |
| 23 | ‘ We have been working with producers over ten years directly — we are very anti-market — and we have a distinct interest in the husbandry and the food and the breeds of the animals . |
| 24 | We have been working at improving race relations in Britain for over 30 years , under successive Governments . |
| 25 | Over the past few years we have been working on such an account , and in this paper we focus on the implications of this account for a central tenet of the mental models approach : that the mental model of the text so far provides ( part of the context for the interpretation of the current sentence or clause . |
| 26 | We have been working on finishing and we got four fine goals . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ But we have been working on a few things , just as we did before the first leg . |
| 28 | The th the snapshot is that we 've looked at twenty eight jobs , and out of those twenty eight jobs , if we have been working on scale fees , it would appear that we would have lost money on twenty of them . |
| 29 | ‘ We have been working on this project for 14 months , and it 's been difficult to persuade people that we have no political objectives . |
| 30 | Recently we have been working on other corpora , including a 26-million word corpus , much larger than the LOB Corpus , but more restricted , in that it consists of newspaper reports . |