Example sentences of "live with [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | A catapult lives with you until the last moment ; it stays tensed in your hands , breathing with you , moving with you , ready to leap , ready to sing and jerk , and leaving you in that dramatic pose , arms and hands outstretched while you wait for the dark curve of the ball in its flight to find its target , that delicious thud . |
2 | So far , we have argued that people in modern Britain give great importance to their immediate family , that is their husband or wife and children living with them in the same house . |
3 | Jean Campbell , in 1817 , was an uneducated deaf person without any speech who could only write the initials of her name in reverse order , eg. C.J. She was an unmarried woman who had three children by different men , one of whom at the time of her arrest in April 1817 had been living with her as a common law husband but who had a few days earlier taken off the ring that he had given to her and which she wore on her finger in the fashion of a married woman , and had left home . |
4 | About fifteen years ago , we had a Nigerian girl living with us for a few months before her marriage , and she was married from our house . |
5 | ‘ I 'm perfectly content to go on living with you under the original terms . |
6 | Having seen last year 's giant-killers Canada get a taste of their own medicine in Pool F , losing to the impressive Koreans ( 16–12 ) , Fiji soon realised that the other seeds were going to struggle to live with them on the rice-paddy pitch . |
7 | But because mistakes are expensive and we have to live with them for a long time we tend to play safe and go for rather bland schemes . |
8 | Some Christian girls took her to live with them in a tiny flat where she slept on a sofa in the cramped living room . |
9 | With firm reassurance and explanation the pain either disappears ( usually within three months ) or the patient learns to live with it as a minor nuisance . |
10 | ‘ It is something that tends to live with you for a long time but at least we now have the chance to put the record straight and show that we , too , can play a bit . |
11 | In the spring , almost without knowing how it happened , she accepted Rachel 's invitation to go and live with her in the new house she was buying in London . |
12 | How long can you still live with her in the same house while making up your mind ? |
13 | They can live with it for a few months , but not longer which is why they have such a high turnover of staff . |
14 | If you are the victim of a burglary , the value of the property that has been stolen might be large or small , but the emotional upset and the feeling that someone else has been in your home can live with you for a long time . |