Example sentences of "[verb] been living [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | This week Tom has been living on a glass of water , half a cup of tea and just one small dinner a day . |
2 | STEPHEN HENDRY has been living under a Fatal Attraction nightmare since September . |
3 | Clark has been living with a Jarvik 7 implant , connected to a separate air compressor , since 2 December last year . |
4 | He has been living in a succession of ANC havens . |
5 | ‘ I feel as though I 'd been living under an anaesthetic for years and years . ’ |
6 | What would these people think , I wondered , if they knew he 'd been living like an Apache most of his life and right up until a little while ago ? |
7 | He 'd been living in a £500-a-week hotel suite in Nottingham , spending £2,000 a month on clothes . |
8 | ‘ The person who put this together must have been living in a box for the last 10 years . ’ |
9 | The fact was that for many years she and her father had been living with a dangerous illusion ; and the illusion was that they were entirely virtuous in their endeavours , entirely on the angels ' side . |
10 | And all this while , Wexford guessed , Hatton had been living like a king . |
11 | The brothers had been living in a penthouse flat in Bickenhall Street , west London , bought in December for £1 million cash . |
12 | ‘ He had been living in a caravan at the back of the house . ’ |
13 | It felt as if I had been living in a room with closed curtains , and all of a sudden its windows had been thrown open and the sun had come bursting in . |
14 | She had been living in a hostel for women in North London for the past year and was waiting to be re-housed . |
15 | Vesa had been living in a small apartment in the Mids since their aunt had died a year back . |
16 | ‘ Leith Everett , ’ she stated down the phone , and soon knew she had been living in a fool 's paradise these last few hours . |
17 | However , the children of your unmarried partner can not inherit from you unless you adopt them or make a will even if they have been living as a family with you both . |
18 | McGuigan says his wife , Sandra , and their four children have been living on a knife-edge since Eastwood 's libel action . |
19 | Some have been living for a disconcertingly long time in museums ; but once doubted , the evidence of inadequacy in a fake is quite often soon in coming . |
20 | Since these results are obtained in animals that have been living in a normal environment , they mean that the clock originates , at least in these animals , from an abnormal ‘ internal ’ structure , the chromosome . |
21 | We have been living in a jungle all our lives and we have struggled to bring our minds into cultivation but without hope and suddenly we have found this meadow of cleared land on which we can plant our gardens . |
22 | Since Tuesday , when I went to tea with Ivy , I have been living in a dream of confusion and discomfort . |
23 | ‘ I have been living in a Social Services Home for about seven years . |
24 | There seems little wrong with that , for we have been living in a fools paradise for years and also depriving the Americans of value . |
25 | ‘ I have been living in a bed and breakfast for the past 15 months with my kids and me in the one room . |
26 | she 's been living with a brother . |
27 | You see , for months he 's been living on a diet of Minpins , and a thousand Minpins is not even a snack for him . |
28 | And they give a , though she 's not being like , really cheeky , it 's because she 's been living in a culture for four years , where that 's the way they , they sell and buy . |