Example sentences of "[pron] have been live " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If someone has been living on the streets for a number of years he ca n't switch over to an organized life in a couple of days … it is too sudden . |
| 2 | People always ask , ‘ Why did you come back ? ’ when someone has been living abroad . |
| 3 | Like a fool I told her about the man I 'd been living with . |
| 4 | I rang her every day , but I had n't seen her during the time I 'd been living at Eva 's ; I could n't face any of them in that house . |
| 5 | Since I 'd been living in the flat , Shadwell had been coming to see Eva at least once a week , during the day , when Dad was at the office . |
| 6 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
| 7 | I 'd been living away and when I first come back into the area a few of me friends was into it . |
| 8 | ‘ I feel as though I 'd been living under an anaesthetic for years and years . ’ |
| 9 | I 'd been living in the country with my wife when she died unexpectedly . |
| 10 | But of course , th , I 'd been living at The Haven then , next to the butcher 's shop . |
| 11 | Intending to be a priest of the Church of England , I lost my faith , slowly but painfully , and at the end of the summer left Oxford and the house in Norham Gardens in which I had been living for two years and in which , by a curious turn of fortune , my office now is . |
| 12 | It felt as if I had been living in a room with closed curtains , and all of a sudden its windows had been thrown open and the sun had come bursting in . |
| 13 | He was overlooking the fact that I had been living with Jean-Claude for more than three years . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been living on odd bits and pieces , ’ he says , ‘ as well as the proceeds of my first novel . ’ |
| 15 | For nine years , I 've been living in unwedded bliss with my partner Christian . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been living on salad , fish and fresh air to be at my lightest for this , but it was well worth it . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been living in fear , undermined over the past few weeks , ’ he moaned . |
| 18 | I 'm 40 , I 've been living with my fiancé , who 's the same age , for three years and I think the world of him . |
| 19 | She thought : I 've been living like this for years . |
| 20 | You ca n't run with a baby , and I 'm not going to drag my kids into the sort of life I 've been living . |
| 21 | I mean , I 've been living this guy for three weeks now and Vic starts telling me how to speak ? |
| 22 | Q I 've been living with my boyfriend for three years , and we have two children , Liam , aged two and Jade , six months . |
| 23 | " Lord , I feel as if I 've been living with this case for ever ! " |
| 24 | ‘ As a matter of fact I 've been living for the past two years with a wonderful man . |
| 25 | Niorin : I come from Ireland , and I 've been living in England since last summer . |
| 26 | " I 've been living at Moorlake . |
| 27 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 28 | And I 've been living for seven years ! |
| 29 | Without knowing it I have been living in poverty for the past 14 years . |
| 30 | Since Tuesday , when I went to tea with Ivy , I have been living in a dream of confusion and discomfort . |