Example sentences of "had been live " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was the best of my father 's stories , told in the pub in the 1960s , of how difficult it had been to live with her in 1937 , during the Abdication months . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The patient had been living before she came to London on the outskirts of a town in Bangladesh . |
| 4 | And all this while , Wexford guessed , Hatton had been living like a king . |
| 5 | Reveille for the remainder was at 0600 , as the transit camp we had been living in for the fortnight had to be handed over to the next inhabitants spick and span . |
| 6 | They had been living together across the colour bar for the best part of 30 years . |
| 7 | Mr Hall said Miss Scott had explained she did not give notification of her mother 's death because she was afraid the authorities would discover the conditions in which they had been living . |
| 8 | Ten years later , after the death of Berlioz' second wife , with whom he had been living before Harriet 's death , he was obliged to disinter Marriet 's remains , because of the closure of the small cemetery in Montmartre where she was buried . |
| 9 | 4 After an argument with the woman with whom he had been living , D drove his lorry into her car and crushed her to death . |
| 10 | Following township rumours that the Mandelas had been living apart for some weeks , the Sowetan newspaper said Mrs Mandela continued to live in the mansion she had built in a better part of Soweto but Mr Mandela had moved into a well-guarded home in Johannesburg 's affluent northern suburbs . |
| 11 | People who had been living in the shadow of the rock breathed easily again . |
| 12 | Margaret , who had been living with her married sister in Oxford , soon came to join her mother . |
| 13 | The daughter of a rich Jewish textile manufacturer from Lodz , this highly intelligent woman of great charm and style had been living in Germany during the years when Hitler was coming to power , and the persecution of Jews had begun . |
| 14 | In October , Hopper married Michelle Phillips who had been living with him for some months . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I felt that way myself — the difference was that he had been living longer . |
| 17 | Liz , a 25-year-old single woman , had been living on her own for the previous year in a flat above a small craft shop that she ran together with her mother . |
| 18 | His solicitor Bob Emuss said that the defendant , who until February had been living in Surrey , had wanted to move to the Kingsley area . |
| 19 | Jean Campbell , in 1817 , was an uneducated deaf person without any speech who could only write the initials of her name in reverse order , eg. C.J. She was an unmarried woman who had three children by different men , one of whom at the time of her arrest in April 1817 had been living with her as a common law husband but who had a few days earlier taken off the ring that he had given to her and which she wore on her finger in the fashion of a married woman , and had left home . |
| 20 | All their married life she had been living a lie . |
| 21 | Nathan had been living at India-May 's for almost three years when Donald moved in . |
| 22 | She had tried to locate him for over two years , in both America and Canada , where John had been living and working for a number of years . |
| 23 | The Cossarts were Huguenots but had been living in Ireland for many years . |
| 24 | Imagine you had been living on bread and water for three years and then someone put a large bowl of cherries on the table in front of you . |
| 25 | ‘ They had been living together but she said she was leaving him , ’ said Mr Ben Hemo . |
| 26 | At the same time , he knew that , while he had been living in Canada , she had been an activist for a period with the WLAA and had been outspoken on occasions such as the meeting of the deputation with Whitelaw and the television debates . |
| 27 | All these years then , or for some of them , Rufus had been living three or four miles from him . |
| 28 | Granny had been living with us for some time . |
| 29 | They had been living at Riverstown for two months before the first invitation came . |
| 30 | 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 . |