Example sentences of "but live [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heart experts never tire of pointing out that Winston Churchill started life as a frail premature baby , went on to smoke , drink heavily and eat to the point of obesity , but lived to a great age , whereas Nathan Pritikin , inventor of the Pritikin diet , died a premature death despite being obsessed with health . |
| 2 | A singer of poignant songs , Rikoran was born near Mukden in Manchuria in 1920 of Japanese parents , but lived as a young girl with a Chinese family . |
| 3 | He had married Jemima Mott in 1816 but lived as a childless widower from 1829 after the death of his wife . |
| 4 | She did not want to go , but lived in an unmodernised house with a coal fire as the main source of heat . |
| 5 | The case concerned the wife of a civil servant who worked in Northern Ireland but lived in the Irish Republic . |
| 6 | If it is true that no man knows what may befall him , nor how he may make himself safe against all future evils , is it not therefore the wisest course to make no provision , but to live in the present experience only ? |