Example sentences of "[vb past] be live [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They 'd been living together for many years . |
| 3 | She had been living here at the château , helping with the children , but she moved down to Les Hiboux to get away from me . |
| 4 | Following township rumours that the Mandelas had been living apart for some weeks , the Sowetan newspaper said Mrs Mandela continued to live in the mansion she had built in a better part of Soweto but Mr Mandela had moved into a well-guarded home in Johannesburg 's affluent northern suburbs . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They had been living together across the colour bar for the best part of 30 years . |
| 9 | They wore camouflage uniform and , from the looks of them , had been living long in the jungle . |