Example sentences of "[prep] live [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it might be disputed whether , after living in the USA for nearly half a century , Miss McPartland is still British . |
| 2 | I was n't going to turn her out with nowhere to go , you know , young lady — but perhaps it 's a bit hard on an old lady to go into a new place after living in the same cottage most of her life . |
| 3 | Now , after living in the house for nine years , some rooms need redecorating before the others have even been revamped for the first time . |
| 4 | He has , however , paid a very high price for living with the politics of localism . |
| 5 | All these preparations for living off the land were unnecessary , for between them they knew of a network of wealthy houses , stretching from St Tropez to Mykonos , where bedrooms with a bath en suite , swimming-pools and occasional servants in white gloves would be put at their disposal by parents only too grateful to discover that their daughters had not , as yet , been violated by a lorry-driver or their sons arrested for the importation of stuff . |
| 6 | Individually-Designed Homes : A design for living among the rich |
| 7 | Anything less promising as a design for living in the desert is hard to imagine . |
| 8 | She suggests that the ‘ board ’ money which young people paid for living in the parental household was seen as an exchange , especially for daughters : they handed over their wages to their mothers and in exchange their mothers equipped them to enable them to go into service . |
| 9 | Writing almost a century after Kingston , he fulfilled the expectations of his readers with less melodrama in his plots and a more responsible attitude to life in his young hero , but Quinn is a very obvious descendant of Marryat 's Peter Simple and Kingston 's Jack Rogers in his lively opportunism and his youthful capacity for living in the present . |
| 10 | With particular emphasis on Dover and the surrounding area , known as Hellfire Corner , the book draws upon many first hand eyewitness accounts about living under the threat of bombs , land mines , shells , V-1s etc . |
| 11 | The thing that Constance loved perhaps more than anything else about living in the south was the sun . |
| 12 | I do not wish to detract from all the good things about living in the U.S.A. , but I would like to assure ‘ Contact ’ readers that life over here is not all sunshine and roses . |
| 13 | Erm the people who have problems erm I would think , because of of feeling probably the way , they feel about living in the flats or about having to live in that way , does n't make them feel any batter about erm you know any any other particular difficulties that they 're having . |
| 14 | I suppose the main difference I notice about living in the two environments is how my dress is n't bound by convention on the island , I just stick to wearing what is most comfortable . |
| 15 | Erm we touched on quite a few of the , quite a few of the erm bad points about living in the flats . |
| 16 | " By the way , Richard , when are you and Laura going to give up this nonsense about living in the middle of the Thames ? |
| 17 | Now Northampton is twenty one miles from Bedford now we were never classed as living in the south when we lived there . |
| 18 | The social scientist gains an understanding of the meaning of action through living with the group which he wants to understand . |
| 19 | As the industrial sector grew , especially with the rapid post-1918 development of heavy industry , the concentration of industry in urban areas meant that members of the rural population could no longer maintain even a pretence of living off the land , and were more and more drawn away to the expanding cities . |
| 20 | HIDDEN IMMORALITY : Asian prostitute at a window in the red-light district of Balsall Heath , Birmingham , and ( inset ) Denise Seneviratne , producer of Living Off The Game |
| 21 | The coming out of the horse , following long discussions and meetings between doctors , nurses , patients and artists , was also an opportunity to denounce the miserable conditions of the Mental Hospital , the backwardness of the law in force , the nurses ' working conditions and , above all , the lack of real prospects for all those patients who were already capable of living outside the hospital . |
| 22 | Or were you thinking of living above the shop ? ’ |
| 23 | This is seen , for instance , in the denial to prostitutes of ‘ normal ’ family relations through the existence and increased harshness of the offence of living on the earnings of prostitution , which effectively stops them from living with a partner . |
| 24 | By any standards , the insect body must be reckoned the most successful of all the solutions to the problems of living on the surface of the earth . |
| 25 | Atrocity stories — the shootings on the night of 2 May , Dupont 's sack of Cordoba , the pillage of soldiers in a country where the Napoleonic system of living on the country broke down — fed xenophobic hatred of the French as vandals and heretics . |
| 26 | They looked up at her , and it was clear without anything being said that they were doing their best to cram fifty years of living into the next week or two . |
| 27 | Reality itself then became a construct of knowing and being known , and of living with the alternative possibility . |
| 28 | Working-class Protestants had some material advantages over their Catholic competitors and enjoyed preferential treatment in housing and local government employment but these advantages were sometimes marginal and were not often felt to be considerable advantages because the Protestants did not sit down to statistical comparisons of their standards of living with the opportunities of Catholics . |
| 29 | A notable group of recent feminist studies has focused on these women carers , bringing home in no uncertain measure the cost they pay , financially , in time , and emotionally : ‘ the claustrophobia , to the point of being suffocated , of living with the situation and , of course , the exhausting conflict of mixed emotions … the love , anger , frustration and guilt ’ . |
| 30 | Please try to understand : I 'm so tired of living with the dead . ’ |