Example sentences of "live [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 In the famous Middletown studies made by Robert and Helen Lynd the Lynds lived for a time in Muncie , Indiana , but were always known to be researchers .
32 A contemporary of Gundulić was Junije Palmotić ( 1606–57 ) , a Ragusan noble who lived for a time in Bosnia , and who drew upon the Slav folk tales as well as on contemporary Italian and ancient classical traditions for the abundant outpouring of songs , satires , verse epics and dramas which he composed .
33 ‘ We lived for a time in Washington DC , ’ she said slowly .
34 Hunt lived for a time as a tax exile in Marbella , sharing an estate with another ex model , Jane ‘ Hottie ’ Birbeck .
35 He had very red hair and a pale complexion with masses of freckles all over his face , he was very popular with everyone and lived for the day when he could join the Army , particularly the Camerons .
36 I just lived for the minute ; if my tongue and lips and fingers travelled freely over her , that was good enough for forever .
37 A neighbour at his home in Southend , Essex , said : ‘ He was a smashing lad who lived for the Army .
38 The Arbuthnots hunted on odd days with the Meath and Tom lived for the sport .
39 When this second marriage broke down in 1963 , Simenon was already having an affair with another maid , Teresa Sburelin , with whom he lived for the rest of his life .
40 The teenage PODs lived for the moment and their songs , all crash-bang-wallop-bang-crash , reflected this .
41 She was pretty and popular and she lived for the moment .
42 We were young , we lived for the moment .
43 They lived for the moment , and were completely happy .
44 The physicists lived for the emulsion trails and double checked to see if they were interpreting them correctly .
45 ‘ She lived for the family and they all worshipped her . ’
46 He went home with a couple who had been together for twelve years , not because he wanted to know what it would be like to be made love to by two men at once , but rather to see how these particular two men lived as a couple ; specifically , what they did together in the morning before going to work .
47 He lived as a village carpenter 's son .
48 As Gore has said : ‘ Life lived as a continuum , is a garnering and enriching experience .
49 Now a man may marry his stepmother or stepdaughter , or a woman her stepfather or stepson , provided that the younger person is aged at least 21 and has not at any time before reaching the age of 18 lived as a child of the family of the older person .
50 But the most pathetic of all was the fourth widow , Mrs Shepman , aged eighty and in poor health , who lived as a lodger .
51 This is emergency-speak ; life on red alert : ‘ For the first twenty-five years of my life I lived as a criminal , and the next twenty-five were spent as a second-class citizen , deprived of equality and human rights . ’
52 He had an excellent temperament and lived as a family pet .
53 He had managed to reconnoitre the area between the South Foreland and Beachy Head and to study the roads between there and London when he was given away by the careless talk , prompted by malice , of the ambassador 's homosexual secretary , a subsequently notorious transvestite , the Chevalier d'Éon , who later lived as a woman .
54 She lived as a soldier 's wife might .
55 The box where he lived as a stallion is still preserved on the estate .
56 Two were women : one lived as a recluse at St Julian 's church in Norwich and is known as Julian of Norwich ; the other was an ebullient housewife from King 's Lynn — Margery Kempe .
57 I lived as a beggar , scrounging what I could , but then winter came , not only early but cruelly , one of the sharpest , coldest winters for decades .
58 Dicey lived during a period of great political and economic change , a period in which the range and the functions of government expanded greatly and in which legislation was used explicitly as a method of changing social conditions .
59 Much of the learning and practice of the Egyptians was absorbed by Greek physicians , one of the best known of whom is Dioscorides , an army doctor who lived during the time of Nero in the first century AD .
60 When A had lived x years he became the father of B. He lived after the birth of B y years and had other sons and daughters .
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