Example sentences of "we [verb] [be] living [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd been living in his London flat , and so far our frantic house-hunt had been futile — too big , too small , too near the road , too far from London , but mostly too expensive . |
| 2 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |
| 3 | — We 've been living in this flat over a year Duncan . |
| 4 | We had been living in Canaan for ten years when Abraham started inviting me to his tent . |
| 5 | We have been living on the edge for a number of weeks waiting for this decision to be made known . ’ |
| 6 | We have been living beyond our means for too long and had better start tightening our belts . ’ |
| 7 | Since the summer of last year we have been living with the consequences of Mrs Thatcher 's unreasoned dislike of the ERM . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There seems little wrong with that , for we have been living in a fools paradise for years and also depriving the Americans of value . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |