Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be living [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trouble is my boyfriend , with whom I have been living for six months , thinks I should use the money to pay off our overdraft . |
| 2 | Without knowing it I have been living in poverty for the past 14 years . |
| 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 the city for three years and if I were to go to the estates now they would n't give me work . |
| 6 | I have been living in the same bungalow now for 10 years , and it seems no easier now than it was 10 years ago to find staff . |
| 7 | I have been living in Britain since 1970 , almost half of my life has been spent here . |
| 8 | I have been living in this area for over a year now , and I still have n't made any friends . |
| 9 | ‘ No , I am American , from the East Coast , but I have been living in England for some time . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I have been living in a bed and breakfast for the past 15 months with my kids and me in the one room . |
| 11 | ‘ Since when you have been living with Mr and Mrs Fanshawe ? ’ |
| 12 | We have been living on the edge for a number of weeks waiting for this decision to be made known . ’ |
| 13 | We have been living beyond our means for too long and had better start tightening our belts . ’ |
| 14 | Since the summer of last year we have been living with the consequences of Mrs Thatcher 's unreasoned dislike of the ERM . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The most recent has been from the late 1970s through the 1980s , and if we think of those years as one of only four periods of major structural change in nearly two centuries we can appreciate that we have been living in interesting times . |
| 17 | There seems little wrong with that , for we have been living in a fools paradise for years and also depriving the Americans of value . |
| 18 | We have been living in exciting times and it has needed a strong hand to keep order in the town , where all the disorderly elements tried to take advantage of the situation . |
| 19 | ‘ Ever since work started on the re-design of the front area we have been living in fear that we will come back on Monday morning and they will have put bricks through the windows again . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They have been living since the nursery with different materials around them and objects having different weights , and they have a concealed knowledge of ice-water-steam which is more helpful to a teacher at this stage than any class experiments . |
| 22 | Since 1982 they have been living at Grass Gars Farm , Ulpha , Broughton in Furness , in the Lake District — bought with a bridging loan , until Mountain Ash was sold in November 1984 . |