Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] was living [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not simply a matter of defying conventions although I admit I have been strictly brought up and I think it would break my parents ’ hearts if ever they came to know I was living with a man who was not my husband . |
| 2 | Leila had not been at all pleased to find she was living under the same roof as Zambia Crevecoeur . |
| 3 | In that election the candidate dropped out at the last minute and the only man who could be found to replace him was living in Zambia . |
| 4 | A small , fat , rich man sat ogling girls ' legs : he was there most days and represented everything Camille most despised : she thought that he imagined he was living in a Continental fashion . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As far as I know she was living on her own with this little old boy . |
| 7 | Actually she was a former girlfriend , and he had n't exactly visited her , because upon arriving he discovered she was living with an Algerian rug merchant — she had somehow neglected to mention this in her postcards — who had pulled out a scimitar and threatened to send the Swede home with his goolies in a sandwich bag if he did n't clear off instantly . |
| 8 | Last I heard she was living with her for . |
| 9 | A young man from Canada was on holiday in Scotland , ( I understand he was living with an aunt , locally ) , and had attached himself to Sam . |
| 10 | He knew I was living with someone , living in sin . ’ |
| 11 | You 'd think he was living in an hotel . ’ |
| 12 | She wrote to Carrie and Nick and said she was living in a boarding house in a street near the docks , in a dark little room that smelt of kippers . |
| 13 | Before I got married I was living in the London Palace and there was something like three hundred and sixty girls there . |