Example sentences of "live [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The average Jew was the average Englishman , living off a weekly pay packet of four pounds a week or less at a time when , in the worst-hit areas for unemployment , up to twenty per cent of the population was below the poverty line .
2 If Yggdrasil stuck a terminal in , I would have spent the rest of my life floating in a tank living out a Late , Late Show rerun .
3 Surrounded as I was by supremely negative images of homosexuality such as ‘ the man in the dirty mac living out a lonely old age in a filthy garret ’ , I still felt that there was for me a clear choice between expressing or repressing my homosexual desire .
4 After the usual pleasantries , he said , with surprising directness , ‘ You will find living here a great change from London .
5 Not quite sure how to broach the subject , and not wishing to be indiscreet , she murmured awkwardly , ‘ I do n't quite know how to put this , but part of the reason for my visit was to try and trace someone who lived here a long time ago , only I do n't quite like to ask around , because the person I 'm looking for might not like it — might not want everyone to know her business . ’
6 Almost every woman I 've known had to live off a perpetual menu of rabbit 's food .
7 Not only do Christians have the necessary basis for such a concept , but we know that we are commanded to live out a standard unselfishness , far surpassing a mere social grace .
8 One consequence of these modes of thought is that the service has to live out a continuous and enormous paradox .
9 ‘ A hero who sought to live out a mythological quest to find himself .
10 As we live only a short distance from the Thames , we have to keep a net over the pond , as two years ago we lost 18 fish to a heron .
11 He had only sampled Cameron Nielson Sr during the hearings , then let the man live out a diminished , unproductive life .
12 M my parents live quite a long way away and erm y you 've got to you need the support of others .
13 This argument was persuasively propounded by the director of the Hastings Center for Medical Ethics , who concluded that ‘ … after a person has lived out a natural life span [ eg , into the late 70s or early 80s ] , medical care should no longer be oriented to resisting death … [ but ] will be limited to the relief of suffering ’ .
14 ‘ We have to give those who have lived here a long time the right to become German citizens , ’ Johannes Gerster , deputy leader of the CDU parliamentary group , said at the weekend .
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