Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been living [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I feel as though I 'd been living under an anaesthetic for years and years . ’ |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Since Tuesday , when I went to tea with Ivy , I have been living in a dream of confusion and discomfort . |
4 | ‘ I have been living in a Social Services Home for about seven years . |
5 | ‘ I have been living in a bed and breakfast for the past 15 months with my kids and me in the one room . |
6 | She had been living in a hostel for women in North London for the past year and was waiting to be re-housed . |
7 | ‘ Leith Everett , ’ she stated down the phone , and soon knew she had been living in a fool 's paradise these last few hours . |
8 | she 's been living with a brother . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | There seems little wrong with that , for we have been living in a fools paradise for years and also depriving the Americans of value . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | He has been living in a succession of ANC havens . |
14 | He 'd been living in a £500-a-week hotel suite in Nottingham , spending £2,000 a month on clothes . |
15 | 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 ? |
16 | ‘ He had been living in a caravan at the back of the house . ’ |
17 | You see , for months he 's been living on a diet of Minpins , and a thousand Minpins is not even a snack for him . |