Example sentences of "[pers pn] live on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know I live on a fierce and magical planet , which sheds or surrenders rain or even flings it off in whipstroke after whipstroke , which fires out bolts of electric gold into the firmament at 186,000 miles per second , which with a single shrug of its tectonic plates can erect a city in half an hour . |
| 2 | But perhaps more important , at this time when the infancy of our species must end , we have an astronaut 's view of Earth rise above the horizon of the Moon to teach us that we live on a tiny island in a vast ocean of energy , space and time . |
| 3 | Astronauts have learned that we live on a delicate planet whose complex workings are poorly understood . |
| 4 | We live on a lighthouse — it 's our job ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It 's because we live on a bad star , is n't it , Tess ? ’ he said through his tears . |
| 6 | It 's not the fact we live on a council estate , more likely to have |
| 7 | As we live on a rotating planet , we are all of us , because of this alone , always travelling at about 1,000 miles an hour all the time even though we appear to be stationary . |
| 8 | Yes , we had the , we had the six foot drop in February do you remember ? were cos we live on a steep hill and |
| 9 | " They live on a boat because they think it 's smart . " |