Example sentences of "live [prep] a [adj] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heather Krohn , widow of Raleigh Krohn , now lives in a converted windmill on the island of Porto Santo . |
| 2 | Her brother Daniel , a Yarmouth fisherman , lives in a beached boat on the sands with his orphaned nephew and niece , Ham Peggotty , a boat-builder , and ‘ Little Em'ly ’ , and Mrs Gummidge , the widow of his late partner . |
| 3 | It 's larva is a fierce predator of small fish , insects and invertebrates , which lives in a silty tunnel on the lake or river bed . |
| 4 | By then we were living in a dirt-cheap place on the Bowery . |
| 5 | At this time Luke was living in a two-bedroom apartment on Yokum Drive . |
| 6 | A young woman living in a semi-detached house on an unpopular Sheffield estate showed me a letter she 'd just received from the electricity board : " A board employee will … call at your premises to cut off the electricity supply on 9/11/82 . |
| 7 | The mood of the Parisians , when they heard the news for which they had been waiting so long , was recorded by a young Welshman living in a rented room on the Ile de la Cité . |
| 8 | Sammy lived in a small cottage on the bank of the Berkeley to Gloucester canal . |
| 9 | His other nanny lived in a small house on Park Road , close to St Luke 's Hospital and not far from the park where Frankie sometimes played . |
| 10 | Nanny lived in a big house on the corner of Lansdowne Place , near the club and the post office and opposite the big church . |
| 11 | Old Granny Fordham , who lived in a lonely cottage on the Enderley estate , could n't afford luxuries like butter and eggs , and could n't easily get to the shops in the village , so it would be doing a real service to take Mrs. Grant 's gift to her . |
| 12 | To live as a white man on land a white man has given you . |
| 13 | There was no reason , except chance , why I should ever have travelled to live in a remote island on the other side of the world , for my future in England had been mapped out . |
| 14 | A farmer and his family who live in a wooden shack on their organic farm say they will lose their home and their livelihood if they are n't allowed to build a proper house . |
| 15 | They occur in many other lakes and rivers in Africa , but have never lived in the present Victoria ( though they did live in a prehistoric lake on the same site ) . |
| 16 | Those who have lived with a large refrigerator on board their yacht in sunnier climes will remember what a bother it is to have to run the engine for an hour every day to keep the drinks cold and the food fresh . |