Example sentences of "live [prep] a [adj] [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lives in a tied cottage owned by them . |
| 2 | ‘ They 're probably the best troops that the Philippine army has , ’ said Mr Peter Choynowski , an executive of the Asian Development Bank from Canada , who lives in a high-rise flat shelled by mortars . |
| 3 | Once more it is helpful to consider the situation of a two-dimensional being who lives on a spherical surface embedded in our three-dimensional space . |
| 4 | Suddenly Europe tells me I am living in a new country called Bosnia-Hercegovina . |
| 5 | By the end of the decade he was living in a new house built within the precinct . |
| 6 | Mr Maurice Cann , development control officer , said : ‘ If permission is granted the occupiers of this building will be living in a substandard environment surrounded by a variety of industrial and commercial uses . ’ |
| 7 | At that moment they are living in a monothematic world limited to one thought : to attain the goal they are fighting for . |
| 8 | The comrades Honecker , Zhivkov , and above all , Ceauşescu himself , still lived in a mental world shaped by both Stalin 's dreams and his cynical realism . |
| 9 | ‘ I lived in a large house converted into flats . |
| 10 | In the summer , he lived in a little house surrounded by sunflowers higher than it was , beside a village with a pale blue pump in the centre , with geese marching around , pigeons gurgling ( they have a different accent on the Continent ) and people sitting on walls gossiping in the evening . |
| 11 | These ‘ happy homes ’ are meant to give old people a sense of dignity and worth , but in reality they live in a privatised world cut off from both family and the wider community . |