Example sentences of "been working [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has he been working for a long time ? |
| 2 | ‘ He 's a projects co-ordinator ; been working for a big building company for years . |
| 3 | ‘ Nutrition , ’ John said , after he had been working for a short time . |
| 4 | He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act . |
| 5 | Owen had been working for a consulting company in Washington before deciding to devote himself to the contras , sitting at North 's feet ; despite his deep immersion in murky affairs , he still took a wide-eyed view of the world in which he operated . |
| 6 | Sony has been working on a new Walkman which allows you to watch films as you go around . |
| 7 | Top stylist at the salon , Jeff Goodwin , had been working on a new idea called Le Flic and together with make-up artist Julie and a new wardrobe of clothes , successfully transformed Alice with these three beautiful styles . |
| 8 | He had been working on a new series for BBC Radio 2 which is due to be broadcast next spring . |
| 9 | ENGINEERS at Philips in Britain have secretly been working on a flat screen television for several years , while hotly denying the fact . |
| 10 | Members of an operational group at Statoil 's office in Forushagen have been working on a tender exercise with Lagos site office . |
| 11 | The Test and County Cricket Board have been working on a detailed financial plan aimed at hosting the competition for the fourth time in 1995 . |
| 12 | The Test and County Cricket Board have been working on a detailed financial plan aimed at hosting the competition on British soil in 1995 . |
| 13 | ‘ But we have been working on a few things , just as we did before the first leg . |
| 14 | It has been suspected for some time that North Korea has been working on a nuclear device . |
| 15 | In fact , he has only been working as a professional for three years or so , and has had to learn his trade by trial and error . |
| 16 | ‘ How long have you been working as a photographic model ? ’ |
| 17 | Long before Sartre developed his own form of Marxist-Hegelian history , Bachelard had been working in a critical relation to Hegelian historicism . |
| 18 | I 've been working in a male environment now for several years , and I 've got quite used to hearing my colleagues speculate about me and my private life ! |
| 19 | ‘ You 've been working like a Trojan all day ! ’ |