Example sentences of "was living [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only problem was that every time he let the dog off the lead it tried to provide itself with a sheep supper , so consequently he had to keep it on the lead and feed it on tins of beans , sausages , bacon and egg , which had so exhausted his stock of food that now he was living on porridge and giving the dog the rest of his sausages . |
| 2 | I was living on adrenaline for the first couple of weeks . |
| 3 | I was living at home and working well at the Co-op in Hammersmith , dealing with ledger sales , counting the cash , keeping it flowing . |
| 4 | Woodcock , who was living at home in Birmingham and studying medicine , enjoyed his visits to his ‘ wicked ’ uncle in London . |
| 5 | I was living at home . |
| 6 | The inquest , at Weeley , was told Miss Martin , who was living at Seaside Lodge nursing home in Colne Road , Clacton , had received psychiatric treatment in the past . |
| 7 | Erm what proportion of the population was living at subsistence level roughly ? |
| 8 | But you know er I was living in hope that the phone would n't stop ringing erm etcetera . |
| 9 | Er that time we we was living in Bay was n't we ? |
| 10 | Thursday night I was living in dread of the choir . |
| 11 | Erm but the most unfortunate thing that Old Edward the the old chap who owned the place he was living in part of the house and Old Jane , his housekeeper , my mother she could bake bread and wash , her mother had taught her that , but it was making butter that was the problem . |
| 12 | British Rugby League , the former Wigan coach had said , was living in dreamland if it thought its standards had risen to match those of Australia . |
| 13 | Ill health dogged his period at St Mary 's , and he returned for a further period of treatment while he was the curate , and in September 1962 he came to Coniston as the Parish priest and significantly , no further setbacks were experienced to his health while he was living in proximity to Coniston Old Man and during the period he was Parish Priest . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The height of absurdity was reached in a case where the wife of a race-horse owner pictured with a woman he had described to the photographer as his fiancee , was allowed to recover damages on the basis that her neighbours would think she was living in sin . |
| 16 | Speaking on Sky News on the anniversary of her husband 's death , Mrs Maxwell , 71 , also denied that she was living in luxury while victims of Maxwell 's pensions ' funds plundering faced penury . |