Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] living [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been living away and when I first come back into the area a few of me friends was into it . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 4 | She has been living there since leaving Keith in the family home a mile away . |
| 5 | just since you 've been living here ? |
| 6 | You 've been living here as long as I have , she thought . |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | She had been living here at the château , helping with the children , but she moved down to Les Hiboux to get away from me . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Hell 's teeth , baby — we 've been living together for the last two years or more . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | So far as a family we have been living here for about 6/7 years . |
| 14 | They 'd been living together for many years . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is surprising how quickly the survivors returned to the civilized life they had been living before . |
| 17 | They had been living together across the colour bar for the best part of 30 years . |
| 18 | ‘ They had been living together but she said she was leaving him , ’ said Mr Ben Hemo . |
| 19 | As most people in South Africa know , they have been living apart for some while — ostensibly on security grounds . |
| 20 | They have been living here for seven years but now they are being inundated by refuse . |
| 21 | Although they have been living together for years they have had no idea how the other really felt . |
| 22 | ( 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 . |
| 23 | I felt that way myself — the difference was that he had been living longer . |
| 24 | ‘ Because he had been living there . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |