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 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 .
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 So far as a family we have been living here for about 6/7 years .
10 They 'd been living together for many years .
11 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 .
12 They had been living together across the colour bar for the best part of 30 years .
13 As most people in South Africa know , they have been living apart for some while — ostensibly on security grounds .
14 They have been living here for seven years but now they are being inundated by refuse .
15 Although they have been living together for years they have had no idea how the other really felt .
16 ( 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 .
17 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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