Example sentences of "been living [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a barrage of love letters and phone calls , Gless was horrified to discover that the woman had been living under the floorboards of her house for at least six weeks . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Sentence was delayed on the mother , Celia Palmer , aged l8 , who was remanded to stay in the hostel where she has been living during the trial while social and probation reports are prepared . |
| 4 | A man who has been living on the verge of success for so long now he 's been elected mayor , PIERCE TURNER is nonetheless happy , And with one of the year 's best albums , ‘ Now Is Heaven ’ , under his belt , why should n't he be ? |
| 5 | ‘ If someone has been living on the streets for a number of years he ca n't switch over to an organized life in a couple of days … it is too sudden . |
| 6 | We have been living on the edge for a number of weeks waiting for this decision to be made known . ’ |
| 7 | Been living on the daddy 's field rations . |
| 8 | It 's thought around 70 travellers have been living on the site for several weeks . |
| 9 | And for the last 3 days , they 've been living on the food they 'd planned to give to the children . |
| 10 | He said this would be paid for by ‘ speculators and those who have been living off the state like cannibals ’ . |
| 11 | It 's been a up , in fact , you 've been living off the people , in in in other words . |
| 12 | She had been living with the Wilsons for nearly three months . |
| 13 | Since the summer of last year we have been living with the consequences of Mrs Thatcher 's unreasoned dislike of the ERM . |
| 14 | ‘ He 's been living with the Earl of Kinmuire in Kentucky . ’ |
| 15 | Section 1 of the 1976 Act was thereby amended to include as dependants spouses and former spouses of the deceased , any person who ( i ) was living with the deceased in the same household immediately before the date of the death ; and ( ii ) had been living with the deceased in the same household for at least two years before that date ; and ( iii ) was living during the whole of that period as the husband or wife of the deceased , any parent or other ascendant or child or other descendant of the deceased , any person who was treated by the deceased as his parent , and any person ( not being a child of the deceased ) who was treated by the deceased as a " child of the family " in relation to any marriage of the deceased , and any person who is or was the issue of a brother , sister , uncle or aunt of the deceased . |
| 16 | Even this severe shaking , however , failed to cause alarm amongst the local people ; they had by that time been living with the eruption for many weeks , and it is remarkable just to what extent familiarity of even something as exceptional as a volcanic eruption can breed contempt . |
| 17 | The best known is that , where there is a gift to a class of children living at a particular date , a child en ventre sa mère at that date but later born alive will be treated as having been living at the date and thus included in the class . |
| 18 | But of course , th , I 'd been living at The Haven then , next to the butcher 's shop . |
| 19 | The young man has been living in the USA . |
| 20 | I 'd been living in the country with my wife when she died unexpectedly . |
| 21 | How long has this man been living in the churchyard ? |
| 22 | He did not look like a man who had been living in the middle of the moor . |
| 23 | To what ex what I 'm saying is , To what extent has been living in the flats , has contributed the life on the flats that they 're in . |
| 24 | How long have you been living in the flats for ? |
| 25 | To marry by certificate the couple need to have been living in the district for seven days before applying . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Also , they generally had not been living in the city ( in this case , in Birmingham ) long enough ( 5 years ) to obtain council housing and , if they had , they were generally offered sub-standard short-life housing in the inner city . |
| 28 | People who had been living in the shadow of the rock breathed easily again . |
| 29 | Since I 'd been living in the flat , Shadwell had been coming to see Eva at least once a week , during the day , when Dad was at the office . |