Example sentences of "be living [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are living on enough credit as it is . ’ |
| 2 | Most people in Western countries are aware of the ‘ football pitch ’ sized areas of rainforest disappearing by the minute , but are they are aware of the murders and disappearances of the people who are living on these acres ? |
| 3 | I think that we must all be full of the sense or profound thankfulness that we are living in this country , under a system of National Government … . |
| 4 | Some 35,000 Salvadoreans are living in this controlled zone . |
| 5 | They are living in some slightly embarrassing suburb — the kind of suburb that has a dog track , and an immigrant problem . |
| 6 | Certain member states , Denmark , The Netherlands and Portugal grant such voting rights only to those expatriate nationals who are living in another E C member state . |
| 7 | Another , a woman who was living , and had been living for many years in , in continuous adultery ! |
| 8 | Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) . |
| 9 | The court was told Tania had been living with another man , Robert Cross , for five months . |
| 10 | " Lord , I feel as if I 've been living with this case for ever ! " |
| 11 | She 's been living with this guy for months , by all accounts , so she 's probably immune to his germs by now . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | How long have you been living at this address ? |
| 14 | She thought : I 've been living like this for years . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | — We 've been living in this flat over a year Duncan . |
| 17 | I have been living in this area for over a year now , and I still have n't made any friends . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Not to the extent where you 're living in each other 's pockets , it 's just that er you know enough about each other to see if there 's anything out of the ordinary happening . |
| 20 | It 's wrong , Mr Deputy Speaker , if they 're living in this country erm on a semi-permanent basis and happen to have been here last October they 'll have a vote so will any everybody else who 's a citizen of the European union , so will peers of the realm who happen to be living elsewhere whether they 're in this country or outside this country under these regulations and previous regulations , have a vote in the European elections and I think it 's wholly wrong that erm citizens of other European countries namely France because that 's the one and it 's remarkable is it not that France is the one that 's gon na be the cause of this whole edifice collapsing if we do n't submit to their extra demands but citizens of France who are citizens living in their colonies , as I 've said in South America , the West Indies and the Pacific , will have a vote in the European elections on June the ninth and yet we have got citizens for whom we are responsible for in this house , we can not shirk it onto anyone else , we deny them the responsibility and I think it 's about time the house addressed this matter . |
| 21 | You 're classed , you 're classed as a reject sort of thing cos you 're living in these flats . |
| 22 | Most of the company wives do n't see their husbands for about sixty five per cent of the year , which is actually a very long time when you 're living in these sort of conditions . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm sure you know very well why I 'm here , unless you 're living in another dimension . |
| 24 | Park , they called it , did n't they ? sold off the farmhouse , they 're living in another one really |
| 25 | No outside noises to help me be living at all . |
| 26 | Potter , thou shouldst be living at this hour . |
| 27 | You would n't be living like that because of comfort , because of security " — he seemed to be making an effort to despise these words as much as she did — " but because of your aim . |
| 28 | She added : ‘ I never thought I 'd be living like this when I married Charles . |
| 29 | I had invited everyone I could think of to tea , and we had been invited back , but it was not her style , and when she complained that it was not right for her ‘ to be living among all these old people ’ I understood very well what she meant . |
| 30 | People were totally amazed that , in Britain in the second half of the twentieth century , someone could be living in such materially deprived conditions , alone , with no water on tap and no electricity , on an income of barely £5 a week — and that she could rise above it with such dignity , inner tranquillity and gentle philosophy . |