Example sentences of "'ve [be] living " in BNC.
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| 1 | — We 've been living in this flat over a year Duncan . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been living on odd bits and pieces , ’ he says , ‘ as well as the proceeds of my first novel . ’ |
| 3 | Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For nine years , I 've been living in unwedded bliss with my partner Christian . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been living on salad , fish and fresh air to be at my lightest for this , but it was well worth it . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been living in fear , undermined over the past few weeks , ’ he moaned . |
| 8 | I 'm 40 , I 've been living with my fiancé , who 's the same age , for three years and I think the world of him . |
| 9 | She thought : I 've been living like this for years . |
| 10 | Erm there 's also a very strange statement in paragraph which says that the nineteen sixty eight act is intended to provide a network of sites to enable gypsies to move around or settle , but in practice many gypsies are settled on permanent sites and it seems to me that that is the logical result of having insufficient pitches in that if th you know there are n't enough pitches for you , you are not going to get up and go from a permanent that you 've been living on and move off in case you ca n't one somewhere else and that seems to be the inevitable logic of the government 's own failure to make sure that there is adequate provisions in local sites . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's not just what you wrote that hurts us , Lizzy , it 's the way you 've been living a lie all this time . ’ |
| 12 | All this time you 've been living a dream , and now you 've seen that dream in the flesh you torment yourself even more . ’ |
| 13 | You ca n't run with a baby , and I 'm not going to drag my kids into the sort of life I 've been living . |
| 14 | just since you 've been living here ? |
| 15 | Yeah , so that means that people who 've been living here before has has been ripping catalogues off and things like that . |
| 16 | I mean , I 've been living this guy for three weeks now and Vic starts telling me how to speak ? |
| 17 | Q I 've been living with my boyfriend for three years , and we have two children , Liam , aged two and Jade , six months . |
| 18 | " Lord , I feel as if I 've been living with this case for ever ! " |
| 19 | While you 've been living it up in the lap of luxury — ’ |
| 20 | ‘ As a matter of fact I 've been living for the past two years with a wonderful man . |
| 21 | Hell 's teeth , baby — we 've been living together for the last two years or more . ’ |
| 22 | You 've been living here as long as I have , she thought . |
| 23 | Niorin : I come from Ireland , and I 've been living in England since last summer . |
| 24 | " I 've been living at Moorlake . |
| 25 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 26 | It 's been a up , in fact , you 've been living off the people , in in in other words . |
| 27 | providing , and you 've been living off capital in that way , and and and I 'm not prepared to do that , but I do think there is strong case for borrowing , er , providing it 's kept in in that in in er er under control at this time , and borrowing , I may feel that we will be able to be in a much better position to take our capital receipts and use them advantageously in the future . |
| 28 | What kind of citizens charter is introduced on the back of denying you the right to even challenge the people who are providing the services , or could restrict the right of your family to be together , or the right for you to travel to the country where you 've been living ? |
| 29 | Mrs Probyn 's husband has told police that the pair , who 've been living apart for several months , had a row . |
| 30 | And for the last 3 days , they 've been living on the food they 'd planned to give to the children . |