Example sentences of "live [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For almost exactly nine years , from the late summer of 1980 to the late summer of 1989 , Poland lived through a political crisis . |
| 2 | Scott inherited the family estate in 1596 , but from 1612 until towards the end of his life he lived for a good part of the year in Canterbury . |
| 3 | In 1902 he lived for a short period in Clerkenwell , east London . |
| 4 | A singer of poignant songs , Rikoran was born near Mukden in Manchuria in 1920 of Japanese parents , but lived as a young girl with a Chinese family . |
| 5 | She was probably not born into the wild , but she lived as a feral dog . |
| 6 | In the country you lived as a social being and at the valuation of others . |
| 7 | He had married Jemima Mott in 1816 but lived as a childless widower from 1829 after the death of his wife . |
| 8 | He 's attracted and attractive to women and , I 'd guess , to men too , and yet he lives as a celibate . |
| 9 | A TOTALLY PSYCHEDELIC GUY , aged 16 , who lives for a good time is out to see if there are any zany females into Pink Floyd , Cult and The Who . |
| 10 | IT 'S THE nightmare that everyone who lives near a big airport dreads . |
| 11 | It frequently happens that a daughter lives with a widowed parent for 20 years or more ; if the parent changes council houses or moves from the private sector to a council house within one year of the death of the parent then on the death of the parent the council house will be the home which contains all the furniture and other articles which form part of the home and have been fitted into the council house by the parent and the daughter . |
| 12 | So he lives with a lurking fear of exposure as a fraud . |
| 13 | Mary Leapor also knows that she lives in a dirty world . |
| 14 | Moore is also the man who holds fixedly to the belief that it is solely because he lives in a Labour borough that his pavements have broken and cracked paving-stones . |
| 15 | Paul lives in a tiny bungalow , and had kept marine fish in a four foot tank for several years . |
| 16 | Rob , who lives in a fifth floor apartment , said : ‘ The noise got louder and louder . |
| 17 | Like the series it supersedes , the L range lives in a slimline casing . |
| 18 | Unlike her sisters , Kimberly lives in a rural cottage twenty miles outside of the city . |
| 19 | He now lives in a flat a little further uptown with his Japanese girlfriend . |
| 20 | She lives in a cosy detached home , with plush wall to wall axminster . |
| 21 | He lives in a tied cottage owned by them . |
| 22 | She lives in a remote village , ten kilometres from a paved road . |
| 23 | She lives in a new four-storey house on a recently completed private estate , and typifies the perfect housewife of television advertising : her house has fitted carpets throughout , gleaming unmarked white paint , and every modern gadget , and it is impeccably maintained by Elizabeth , who describes herself as a housewife with very high standards . |
| 24 | Sandra Bishop , who lives in a new two-bedroomed council flat on a new estate with her husband ( a painter and decorator ) and one child aged eighteen months , lacks several aids which many women would consider essential , including a hoover and either a washing machine or access to a launderette . |
| 25 | But 29-year-old Davey , who now lives in a lavish Florida mansion a long way from the two-up two-down terraced house he was brought up in , has no guarantees of success . |
| 26 | She felt nothing for me ; she has already forgotten me ; she lives in a drowsy round of smoking , going to the baths , painting her eyelids and drinking coffee . |
| 27 | We can infer from these studies that horses reared with other horses in a free and enriched environment ( like a large paddock which offers variety and interest ) , if given the extra stimulation of owners who continually expand their mental horizons , will be more intelligent than a horse that never leaves its paddock or continually lives in a stable or yard . |
| 28 | What , after all , can be said to a child about a man who lives in a mental hospital ? |
| 29 | She lives in a terraced house in Lancashire with her mum and dad and her cat , Arthur . |
| 30 | Jenny now lives in a terraced ground-floor flat in Queens Park with family friend Michael Saffer , Samantha , 22 , and Gina , 19 . |