Example sentences of "[been] living [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Another , a woman who was living , and had been living for many years in , in continuous adultery ! |
| 3 | Roddy Lou Thai was not pleased at all to be questioned by two representatives of the repressive Imperialist Government , under whose chauvinistic wing he had been living for four years . |
| 4 | The trouble is my boyfriend , with whom I have been living for six months , thinks I should use the money to pay off our overdraft . |
| 5 | And I 've been living for seven years ! |
| 6 | Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) . |
| 7 | Of course I 've sent specimens to Forensic but you can take it from me that he died of strychnine poisoning ; a fairly hefty dose but he 'd been living on borrowed time any way . |
| 8 | She 's been living on borrowed time for a long while . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been living on odd bits and pieces , ’ he says , ‘ as well as the proceeds of my first novel . ’ |
| 10 | A whole family employed in the Midlands engineering industry have been living on supplementary benefit for two years : the grandparents in their mid-40s , two married sons with children and a teenager living at home . |
| 11 | She is certainly not one of those who have been living on mung beans for as long as they can remember . |
| 12 | She 'd been living with one of his men , a guy who knew a lot about his affairs , and Connie could n't help knowing plenty of things that Bonanza would not want advertised on the radio . ’ |
| 13 | The court was told Tania had been living with another man , Robert Cross , for five months . |
| 14 | " Lord , I feel as if I 've been living with this case for ever ! " |
| 15 | She 's been living with this guy for months , by all accounts , so she 's probably immune to his germs by now . |
| 16 | Maybe she 'd always had someone to look after her ; he 'd been living with darned socks and the stitch-in-time philosophy all his life , first his mother and then Margaret , who sorted her stockings out into ones she could wear to the office and ones which were only good for gardening . |
| 17 | Except for the few who tended , from time to time , to inconvenience the landlord by dying there , passing so imperceptibly that it sometimes went unnoticed for an hour or two , from a state which had not really been living at all . |
| 18 | How long have you been living at this address ? |
| 19 | She thought : I 've been living like this for years . |
| 20 | In 1907 Picasso and Braque had been living near each other in Montmartre for some time , and after 1908 began meeting daily to talk , visit the galleries and museums , and to examine each other 's work . |
| 21 | To support his family , which had been living in grinding poverty in a squalid tenement , he had to emigrate in 1903 to the USA . |
| 22 | At all material times he and his family have been homeless within the meaning of section 58 of the Housing Act 1985 and have been living in temporary accommodation provided by the council , the local housing authority , under section 63 of the Act . |
| 23 | For the last year Mr Holland and his girlfriend Teresa Brain have been living in temporary accomodation with their two young children . |
| 24 | What is more , it was also clear that , mechanically , such fins would be of real assistance out of water as in it , had the fish , like its ancient forebears , been living in shallow water and become stranded . |
| 25 | The Tories have been living in cloud-cuckoo land for the past 12 years . |
| 26 | Some of the refugees had been living in Polish exile for as long as seven weeks , while others arrived only a few hours before West German diplomats announced they could leave . |
| 27 | — We 've been living in this flat over a year Duncan . |
| 28 | I have been living in this area for over a year now , and I still have n't made any friends . |
| 29 | This country has a long tradition of accepting genuine political refugees , but there is no doubt that the fact that three quarters of all applications are made by people who have been living in this country for weeks , months and , in some cases , years , is tantamount to an abuse of the system . |
| 30 | We have been living in exciting times and it has needed a strong hand to keep order in the town , where all the disorderly elements tried to take advantage of the situation . |