Example sentences of "[adv] live [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is an achievement to play games at the moment , as we are literally living from hand to mouth . |
| 2 | Most support for people who can not manage daily living without help comes from families , friends and neighbours rather than from the various formal services . |
| 3 | Better to live in hope — and better to be shot cleanly through the head than be smashed by the surf and stripped of his flesh by the knife-sharp coral . |
| 4 | If you 're lucky enough to live at home , or you have your own room in college or good lodgings , you may prefer to study there ( see also Chapter 2 on accommodation ) . |
| 5 | The novel argues in cold , unremitting fidelity to its own thesis that in life the evil may in the end go unpunished and live happily ever after ; that the truly self-sufficient being , if he anywhere existed , would be ultimately inviolable , fearing neither reproach nor self-reproach ; and that those who are strong enough to live without sympathy are forever beyond the reach of compassion or revenge . |
| 6 | When Father died , he left us both enough to live in comfort for the rest of our lives , regardless of our husbands ’ support . |
| 7 | The moas have all gone — mostly wiped out by the Maoris , who arrived in about the tenth century AD , and have dispelled the myth that hunter-gathering people necessarily live in harmony with nature . |
| 8 | Since the soldiery could only live by looting , the peasantry were rising out of sheer desperation . |
| 9 | Better that I do n't that I do n't be proud better live in harmony . |
| 10 | Mr and Mrs Bumble lost their jobs and became poorer and poorer , eventually living in poverty in the same workhouse that they had once managed . |
| 11 | They no longer lived in awe of their Big Brothers in the unions . |
| 12 | The man was already living beyond sundown , George told himself . |
| 13 | Two patient subgroups were identified : these were children who had recently travelled abroad ( 11 ) , and children who had an itinerant existence within the United Kingdom , generally living in caravan sites ( 11 ) . |
| 14 | It 's a very difficult time , we 're just living from day to day . |
| 15 | A skin would normally live at home . |
| 16 | Some widows in this position transform their lost husband in their minds into the man they wish he had been , and finally live at peace with a dream instead of in conflict with reality . |
| 17 | A portion of that inscription serves us well today and it reads and I quote all who shall hereafter live in freedom will be here reminded that to these men and their comrades we owe a debt to be paid with grateful remembrance of their sacrifice and with a high resolve that the cause for which they died will live eternally . |
| 18 | I think Liz has written six full-length manuscripts and , and has just lived with rejection sh , slips . |
| 19 | Jem still lived at home — was that why Lucy had no lovers ? |
| 20 | Which could be quite a bit as they all still lived at home with their mums and dads . |
| 21 | Many of his young friends still lived at home under the watchful eyes of their mothers and needed a place to take their mistresses . |
| 22 | She still lived at home , handing the meagre amount of money on which she was supposed to have managed to her mother . |
| 23 | However , in less prosperous areas the large exactions were , for many , such a burden that they still lived at subsistence level . |
| 24 | Although her mum was upset and her dad was cross they did n't chuck her out but have been very supportive and she still lives at home with her two-year-old son . |
| 25 | We have a son who still lives at home who in fact has been quite ill for a long time and erm she you know the amount the work she has done therefore has been seriously limited . |
| 26 | Joyce , whose father Les Henderson still lives in South Bank , Middlesbrough , met her husband while working as a ship stewardess . |
| 27 | His tone had changed again , and now he spoke like a worried father who still lives in hope for his son . |
| 28 | There is an interesting contrast between still lives in pastel and those in oil paints . |
| 29 | Raye Snook is looking for Kathleen and Marion Far , possibly living in Minster , Sheerness , Kent . |
| 30 | She came down to Riverside with me , watched as we rehearsed then followed me into the loo and gave me a blow job — something I just was n't used to as a 17-year-old grammar school boy still living at home with his mum and dad . |