Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been live [adv] for " 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 | 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 ! |
3 | Hell 's teeth , baby — we 've been living together for the last two years or more . ’ |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | So far as a family we have been living here for about 6/7 years . |
8 | They 'd been living together for many years . |
9 | As most people in South Africa know , they have been living apart for some while — ostensibly on security grounds . |
10 | They have been living here for seven years but now they are being inundated by refuse . |
11 | Although they have been living together for years they have had no idea how the other really felt . |
12 | 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 . |