Examples of 'he had been working' in a sentence
Meaning of "he had been working"
This phrase indicates past continuous action or activity that the subject (he) was engaged in over a period of time in the past. It suggests that the person was involved in work or tasks for a duration prior to a certain point or event
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he had been working
He had been working very hard on a new book.
Prior to being arrested he had been working on a fishing boat.
He had been working at the airport post office.
His dirtstreaked arms showed he had been working.
He had been working as a construction laborer without papers.
Prior to his death he had been working as a personal trainer.
He had been working all day and came in.
This is everything he had been working for.
He had been working in the field of counterterrorism.
He replied that he had been working there.
He had been working on the papers he had fallen on.
He was sleeping on the sofa because he had been working so hard.
He had been working as a security guard at a bank there.
He also showed us a perpetual motion machine he had been working on.
He had been working all the previous day.
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He climbed down from the ladder he had been working on.
He also said he had been working on new material.
Bill wanted me to see something he had been working on.
He had been working on his computer all night.
Eddie convinced me that he had been working with my brother in secret.
He had been working all night to get a report done.
Tom sent a tape with music that he had been working on.
It is as if he had been working for days without rest.
He continued to improve the ink formula he had been working for.
That he had been working on for college.
It was late in the day and he had been working all day.
He had been working on the study for nine years.
He played her some chords he had been working on for sometime.
He had been working until the last.
It was an alpha version of iruo he had been working on at the time.
He said he had been working on such ideas for a while.
Lying on the floor was the very last text he had been working at.
He had been working on his car.
For the past eight months he had been working as a courier driver.
He had been working on it before he passed away.
During the last thirty years he had been working in neuron cytoskeleton.
He had been working all day yesterday.
It was apparent that he had been working hard over the past month.
He had been working on scripts all along.
I later found out he had been working with him for years.
He had been working on immigration issues for several years.
I made the mistake of asking him how long he had been working.
I knew he had been working on the bombings.
He practiced this hobby very seriously at all places wherever he had been working.
He had been working at the mine for a few weeks.
At the time of his death he had been working on a novel for eleven years.
He had been working full time as a cruise ship comedian.
I know that you and he had been working closely together of late.
He had been working hard his whole life.
Just prior to his death he had been working to finish remodeling his home.
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