Example sentences of "have be living on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | Though Xorandor resigns himself to his fate , he tells the children a secret : he has not in fact come from Mars at all but is a member of a race that has been living on Earth for millions of years , communicating over vast distances through radio pulses in binary code . |
| 4 | This week Tom has been living on a glass of water , half a cup of tea and just one small dinner a day . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Liz , a 25-year-old single woman , had been living on her own for the previous year in a flat above a small craft shop that she ran together with her mother . |
| 7 | Imagine you had been living on bread and water for three years and then someone put a large bowl of cherries on the table in front of you . |
| 8 | A man who had been living on his own committed suicide . |
| 9 | And the wives had been living on credit to the grocer in the village . |
| 10 | Remembering all the dinners he had eaten at the Dysons ' when he had been living on his own , Bob invited Morris back to his flat one evening so that Tessa could cook dinner for him in his turn . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been living on odd bits and pieces , ’ he says , ‘ as well as the proceeds of my first novel . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been living on salad , fish and fresh air to be at my lightest for this , but it was well worth it . |
| 13 | And for the last 3 days , they 've been living on the food they 'd planned to give to the children . |
| 14 | McGuigan says his wife , Sandra , and their four children have been living on a knife-edge since Eastwood 's libel action . |
| 15 | She is certainly not one of those who have been living on mung beans for as long as they can remember . |
| 16 | A whole family employed in the Midlands engineering industry have been living on supplementary benefit for two years : the grandparents in their mid-40s , two married sons with children and a teenager living at home . |
| 17 | It 's thought around 70 travellers have been living on the site for several weeks . |
| 18 | We have been living on the edge for a number of weeks waiting for this decision to be made known . ’ |
| 19 | His ex-wife and child and her second husband have been living on benefits for a year . |
| 20 | You see , for months he 's been living on a diet of Minpins , and a thousand Minpins is not even a snack for him . |
| 21 | He 's been living on his reserves of nervous energy for the past couple of weeks . |
| 22 | She 's been living on borrowed time for a long while . |