Example sentences of "working on [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they quote epistles of St. Paul so difficult that the theologians , who have been working on them for two thousand years , have not got to the bottom of them . |
| 2 | I 'd want to know how much the people who are working on it at all stages are paid , if they 're paid a living wage . |
| 3 | This bloke , you know , had been working on it for fifty years nonstop and |
| 4 | I 've got three people working on it right now and they 've been working on it for three years . |
| 5 | I 've been working on it for most of the week , so do n't make me mess it up . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Er I I could n't tell you off the top of me head I because I was working on it till half past midnight . |