Example sentences of "living [prep] a [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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1 | So life went on and I adapted to my new country , to living as a black youngster in a white-dominated society . |
2 | As well as the horror stories of the tsarist penal system and the Stalinist GULag , there are also examples of those exiles who managed to lead a relatively comfortable , if spartan , existence , taking regular exercise , hunting for sport , reading , writing and corresponding fairly freely with fellow exiles , enjoying connubial pleasures and composing theoretical treatises — one thinks particularly of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov/Lenin who spent three reasonably fruitful and unexacting years , most of the time with his wife , Nadezhda Krupskaya , living as a political exile in the home of a rich peasant in the village of Shushenskoe in southern Siberia ( 1897–1900 ) . |
3 | Margy was twenty-seven when we spoke with her and was living in a one-bedroomed flat in Newcastle-upon-Tyne with her three-year-old daughter Donna , her second child . |
4 | Now he came to the youngest brother , who was living in a tiny hut in the forest with his young wife Militsa . |
5 | We have chosen the example of two professionals in their middle thirties , living in a terraced house in London bought four years ago with the help of a £90,000 mortgage . |
6 | The once powerful arbitrageur , who dominated the takeover scene on Wall Street until his arrest in November 1986 , is living in a Federal centre in the suburbs of Brooklyn , known as a halfway house between prison and the outside world . |
7 | Vesa had been living in a small apartment in the Mids since their aunt had died a year back . |
8 | One DHAC member had discovered John Wilson , his wife and two children living in a small caravan in the Brandywell . |
9 | Indeed the new millionaire of the Beatles was living in a small room in the Asher family 's Wimpole Street home , next to Peter 's Norwegian-wooded apartment . |
10 | The famous Durance coterie had come to an end and all that was left was Sabine painting in the hills and another old woman living in a neglected villa in Antibes . ’ |
11 | A newly arrived unskilled Mediterranean worker living in a run-down neighbourhood in a Scandinavian city is more likely to feel , and appear , in some significant ways more socially incompetent that a middle-class , professional native living in the suburbs : even though the boundaries for each may be comparable in kind and number , for the skilled and socialised native the boundaries be relatively more open than for the unskilled and unsocialised gästarbetare . |
12 | Tenants living in a ramshackle tenement in the middle of a cosmopolitan district of Liverpool 8 were , likewise , due for redevelopment . |
13 | Mike Bettsworth , a freelance writer and Press consultant now living in a converted chapel in the small village of Bere Alston , on the banks of the Tamar Valley at the edge of Dartmoor , says it is the slowness of life in the West and the wide open spaces which appeal to him . |
14 | People living in a semi-detached house in Cambridge would pay £89 more than people in a similar house in Oxford simply because they were in East Anglia rather than the south-east , even though the semi-detached house in Oxford had cost much more . |
15 | Captain Hamilton , living in a modest flat in Fulham , was only too relieved to get rid of the house and the whole burden of debt . |
16 | It is relief , I think , and we must marry soon , I can not bear to wait , and you wo n't mind living in a little house in Vetch Street when you are used to this , will you ? ’ |
17 | In spite of the fact that the Carews had been in Ireland since the middle of the seventeenth century , he still regarded himself as an expatriate living among a semi-barbarous people in a semi-barbarous land . |
18 | She 's divorced , but she has n't emigrated or defected — she 's still a Fellow of Somerville , and still living at a solid address in North Oxford . |