Example sentences of "[pers pn] was living in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At this time , I was living in a sort of Walter Mitty world . |
| 2 | It was when I was living in New York , in Greenwich Village , in 1974 , after completing a semester of ‘ creative writing workshops ’ at Ohio University , where I had been very happy . |
| 3 | I was living in Mayfair and was just about to move from there and buy my first flat . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd just finished editing The Dairy Book of Home Management , which eventually sold 1.5m copies , and I was living in the Kings Road . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I was living in Gambler Terrace , Liverpool 8 and signing on the dole . |
| 6 | If I was living in Mauritius , the time I could spend in jeans would be restricted , as young women seldom wear trousers ; the punjabi dress , with its tight-fitting trousers , is acceptable , though . |
| 7 | ‘ When I was living in New Hampshire , ’ he said , ‘ about half my friends , many of whom had no connection with the building industry , built their own houses . |
| 8 | Anyway , I was living in Boston at the time , but I was in a studio in Oslo and saw a Lexicon there , noticed that the company was in Boston and said , ‘ Can you put it on the guitar and see what it sounds like ? ’ |
| 9 | R : I was living in a legalised communal squat in Amsterdam with a lesbian , a transsexual and two bisexual women . |
| 10 | I was living in two different realities . |
| 11 | ‘ I was living in a council flat with two young children and I went to see the housing boss , which was him , to ask for a bigger place . |
| 12 | In 1973 , I was living in Dublin in a teeny bedsit with three other women . |
| 13 | I was living in a friend 's attic workshop and in need of something to take my mind off my troubles . |
| 14 | Later on , when I was living in Cardiff , I would often miss the last bus from my girlfriend 's house and she used to lend me her bicycle . |
| 15 | I got to know it pretty well when I was living in Sheffield and I 'd recommend anyone to take a walking holiday there . |
| 16 | Before I got married I was living in the London Palace and there was something like three hundred and sixty girls there . |
| 17 | For the final two years of his schooling he switched to Kingston College of Further Education , where he became fascinated by British political history ( ‘ I was living in the nineteenth century , ’ he says ) . |
| 18 | And then I did n't see her again until about nine years ago , when I was living in America and we were introduced again . |
| 19 | At the time I was living in a bedsit in Chelsea and was unemployed ; through a mixture of odd jobs and the DHSS I managed to keep myself in beer and cigarettes . |
| 20 | erm , yes , when I , when I was living in , in Nigeria the women were the one that , at the lower end of society , they were the ones that lived |
| 21 | My er , circumstances are entirely different , I am the person who 's being cared for and my husband died in nineteen eighty seven , and my son in nineteen eighty eight and I was left with my young son , and he looked after me on his own , and then my daughter who li , I was living in Ireland , my daughter lived in England , and she decided it was n't good enough that it should all be left to him , so we had a long talk and we discussed it at length for two weeks at Christmas , and then they all moved Sou , over here , we got a house in Scotland , and I 'm looked after by my young son and my daughter , and since then a year ago my daughter got married , her husband moved in and he looks after me as well , so I 'm looked after by three young adults . |
| 22 | For the first two weeks I was living in a double room with Toril . |
| 23 | My most valuable experience was a few years ago when I was living in a dingy student room in Grenoble . |
| 24 | When you last saw me I was living in a room |
| 25 | He wrote in his Testament not long before he died : " While I was living in sin , it seemed a very bitter thing to look at lepers ; but the Lord Himself led me among them , and I had compassion on them . |
| 26 | When I was living in my former role I went along to a lesbian meeting , thinking that might be what I was , but what I wanted was a relationship with a woman as a man . |
| 27 | We well ye yes I can but er obviously er I , I , I sha n't be doing because erm I 've got too many er hopefully too ma d it 's much better , it would have been much better if I was living in a home , you see where , where we can |
| 28 | But you know er I was living in hope that the phone would n't stop ringing erm etcetera . |
| 29 | Thursday night I was living in dread of the choir . |
| 30 | She was only half aware that Rachel was heavily subsidising her rent , because she was living in a part of London and a sort of house so different from her friends that she had no easy comparisons . |