Example sentences of "live in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lives in a solo world where clearly he is able to build uninterrupted fantasies . |
| 2 | She lives in a hole in the ground . |
| 3 | Sue lives in a hole . |
| 4 | He 'll be saying to me is that lady coming who lives in a hole now , Bodger and Badger . |
| 5 | Despite driving a £30,000 Mercedes — cars , as well as goals , are his obsession — he still lives in a mining village near Barnsley with his parents . |
| 6 | Meanwhile World Films Corporation 's The Better Woman has a poor uneducated girl who lives in a mining town cheating her way into marriage with a young engineer and then surviving all kinds of guilt and adventure before proving ( in the words of the release summary ) that ‘ a girl , starting life under a heavy handicap , could be worthy of the highest place in the affection of an educated high-bred man ’ . |
| 7 | Gertrude is an absurd person who lives in a bird sanctuary ministering to ‘ oiled-up sea-birds ’ ( Elizabeth got that from a charity appeal ) . |
| 8 | There is , of course , much argument about what is ‘ normal ’ , but in general it should mean that every adult person lives in a home of his or her own or with chosen friends or family members , that he or she has daily purposeful occupation , whether in paid employment or not , and that the person has social contacts and interpersonal relationships which are emotionally satisfying . |
| 9 | At the age of eighty seven , Philip lives in a home for the elderly . |
| 10 | I have been criticised for being a distant figure who lives in a style of luxury that Britain can not afford . |
| 11 | Mary was pensioned off soon after this and now lives in a rage in Malta , where it is feared she is writing her memoirs . |
| 12 | The swimming mollusc Nautilus , a rather strange squid-like creature that lives in a shell like the extinct ammonites and belemnites ( see the " shelled cephalopod " of Figure 5 ) , has a pair of pinhole cameras for eyes . |
| 13 | Currently nearly half of private households headed by a person of Afro Caribbean ethnic origin ( or nearly twice the proportion of the total population ) lives in a dwelling rented from the local authority . |
| 14 | He lives in a 24″ × 12″ × 18″ tank on his own . |
| 15 | ‘ The child who lives in a clearing in the jungle has to move out of the clearing and into the jungle one day , ’ she says . |
| 16 | OUR family lives in a cottage in Scarisbrick ( pronounced Scazebrick ) that is more than 100 years old . |
| 17 | Captain Phillips , who was divorced from Anne eight months ago , still lives in a cottage there . |
| 18 | He lives in a jungle today and he does n't know it . ’ |
| 19 | THE reader who lives in a council house and believes her rent is subsidising home-buyers has it the wrong way round . |
| 20 | Her mother lives in a council house with four other adolescent children , so she slept with the baby in the sitting room . |
| 21 | Sheila lives in a council maisonette and has not been involved with social services recently , although she was in care for two years from the age of 14 . |
| 22 | My old man 's a dustman he wears a dustman 's hat he wars cor blimey trousers and he lives in a council flat . |
| 23 | We must remember , however , that this King lives in a country almost completely separate from the rest of the world . |
| 24 | There was Libby , a middle-class city girl who lives in a log cabin in the sub-arctic woods . |
| 25 | Miss Downey , who now lives in a Los Angeles suburb , has already talked to architects and plans to start building in the spring . |
| 26 | Er , a village blacksmith has had his been told by the council to close down because he lives in a greenbelt area . |
| 27 | There 's always an expectation that someone who runs a nightclub lives in a nightclub . |
| 28 | Catherine , who lives in a £130,000 town house in |
| 29 | Well , he lives in a shed . |
| 30 | Congress , any delegate who lives in a university town or who has a son or daughter at college can testify to the special promotions that all banks offer to students . |