Example sentences of "[pron] had [be] living [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 She had been living here at the château , helping with the children , but she moved down to Les Hiboux to get away from me .
2 For the past five days now she had been living somewhere on cloud nine , and had decided that she might just as well set up home there , as it was such a wonderful place to be .
3 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 .
4 The authorities claimed that they had been living illegally on land which had been allocated to others , in Khartoum suburbs such as Karmuta where large numbers of mud-brick houses had reportedly now been vacated and then destroyed by bulldozers .
5 They had been living together across the colour bar for the best part of 30 years .
6 Pamela and he had been living together for a while and , until recently , Jimmy had been close to a happiness previously denied him ; both as lover and as surrogate father .
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