Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been living [prep] " in BNC.
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| 61 | We had been living in Canaan for ten years when Abraham started inviting me to his tent . |
| 62 | We have been living on the edge for a number of weeks waiting for this decision to be made known . ’ |
| 63 | We have been living beyond our means for too long and had better start tightening our belts . ’ |
| 64 | Since the summer of last year we have been living with the consequences of Mrs Thatcher 's unreasoned dislike of the ERM . |
| 65 | 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 . |
| 66 | 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 . |
| 67 | There seems little wrong with that , for we have been living in a fools paradise for years and also depriving the Americans of value . |
| 68 | 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 . |
| 69 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 70 | Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) . |
| 71 | They 've been living for the last ten years in an environment where they expect there to be a high level of occult activity in society . |
| 72 | And for the last 3 days , they 've been living on the food they 'd planned to give to the children . |
| 73 | They had been living at Riverstown for two months before the first invitation came . |
| 74 | They had been living in it for years . |
| 75 | They had been living in Athens , and bringing out a magazine , Residue . |
| 76 | It was not known yesterday if the three had returned to Scotland or to the Costa del Sol where they had been living before their arrest . |
| 77 | 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 . |
| 78 | 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 . |
| 79 | 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 . |
| 80 | He has been living in a succession of ANC havens . |
| 81 | For much of the last couple of decades , he has been living in France , where he is accorded a reverence denied him in his native country . |
| 82 | But that belonged to a white person who was , who could speak Punjabi very well , I think he wa he has been living in India for some time . |
| 83 | He has been living in Thailand , has a Thai wife and speaks Thai . |
| 84 | ( This was a circumstance paralleled at his own funeral , when the friends and relations of the woman he 'd been living with for part of the week since the early 1960s stole the show from us , the pathetic huddle of the family of his middle years . ) |
| 85 | Maybe she 'd always had someone to look after her ; he 'd been living with darned socks and the stitch-in-time philosophy all his life , first his mother and then Margaret , who sorted her stockings out into ones she could wear to the office and ones which were only good for gardening . |
| 86 | Of course I 've sent specimens to Forensic but you can take it from me that he died of strychnine poisoning ; a fairly hefty dose but he 'd been living on borrowed time any way . |
| 87 | Joey Bonanza paid his men pretty well , but not well enough for Jack Mahoney to be able to afford the address he 'd been living at . |
| 88 | He 'd been living in a £500-a-week hotel suite in Nottingham , spending £2,000 a month on clothes . |
| 89 | What would these people think , I wondered , if they knew he 'd been living like an Apache most of his life and right up until a little while ago ? |
| 90 | The Thames and Chilterns Tourist Board went into liquidation last month amid allegations that it had been living beyond its means . |