Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been living [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
| 2 | She has been living there since leaving Keith in the family home a mile away . |
| 3 | I see you 've got no carpets down anywhere the door 's not painted and he said you 've been living here for two years ! |
| 4 | She had been living here at the château , helping with the children , but she moved down to Les Hiboux to get away from me . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Hell 's teeth , baby — we 've been living together for the last two years or more . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I have started divorce proceedings , as we have been living apart for the last two months , but now he is pleading with me to take him back . |
| 9 | I have started divorce proceedings , as we have been living apart for the last two months , but now he is pleading with me to take him back . |
| 10 | So far as a family we have been living here for about 6/7 years . |
| 11 | They 'd been living together for many years . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They had been living together across the colour bar for the best part of 30 years . |
| 14 | As most people in South Africa know , they have been living apart for some while — ostensibly on security grounds . |
| 15 | They have been living here for seven years but now they are being inundated by refuse . |
| 16 | Although they have been living together for years they have had no idea how the other really felt . |
| 17 | ( a ) Spouses living together There is no charge to capital gains tax on a transfer of assets between husband and wife provided that they have been living together in the year of assessment in which the transfer takes place ( Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 ) ( " TCGA 1992 " ) , s58 . |
| 18 | Yet , as he has been living out of a suitcase now for 20 years , he can be forgiven for feeling battle weary . |
| 19 | In all the time that he 'd been living out on the Step Pete had seen only one stranger go by , and that was a hiker who 'd stopped to ask the way because he 'd been lost . |
| 20 | 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 . |