Example sentences of "live in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mary Leapor also knows that she lives in a dirty world . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Paul lives in a tiny bungalow , and had kept marine fish in a four foot tank for several years . |
| 4 | Like the series it supersedes , the L range lives in a slimline casing . |
| 5 | Unlike her sisters , Kimberly lives in a rural cottage twenty miles outside of the city . |
| 6 | He now lives in a flat a little further uptown with his Japanese girlfriend . |
| 7 | She lives in a cosy detached home , with plush wall to wall axminster . |
| 8 | He lives in a tied cottage owned by them . |
| 9 | She lives in a remote village , ten kilometres from a paved road . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | What , after all , can be said to a child about a man who lives in a mental hospital ? |
| 16 | She lives in a terraced house in Lancashire with her mum and dad and her cat , Arthur . |
| 17 | Jenny now lives in a terraced ground-floor flat in Queens Park with family friend Michael Saffer , Samantha , 22 , and Gina , 19 . |
| 18 | She lives in a Victorian cottage in south London with her husband Roger and their baby daughter Hannah . |
| 19 | MRS X , a housewife who lives in a small village in the South-East , became a victim of Brighton-based knockers less than a fortnight after the death of her husband , who was a keen collector of china , silver and oil paintings . |
| 20 | The Hermit lives in a small slated cot , with a very tiny cottage window in it , in one of the loneliest corners of the glen . |
| 21 | Kim Hartman , the actress who plays the truly Aryan Helga in the BBC comedy series 'Allo ‘ Allo , lives in a small Cotswold village and drives a Polo Boulevard , a special edition of VW 's small car , which is equipped with a 1.3-litre engine . |
| 22 | Now she lives in a small flat in Ladbroke Grove , with a young woman she says is her niece . |
| 23 | One species , which lives in a small area round the Suez , certainly does ripen its eggs at full moon , and a sea urchin off California has a similar lunar cycle , so there may be some substance to the fishermen 's claim . |
| 24 | ‘ She lives in a small alleyway just past The Magpie and Crown off Watling Street . ’ |
| 25 | Finn lives in a small place in America , and having been poor , still lives in the same way . |
| 26 | He lives in a glorious wooden hut with several equally attractive out-buildings . |
| 27 | One man has a house with twelve rooms : another lives in a cardboard box . |
| 28 | After all , despite the success of Mossad , Israel still lives in a perpetual state of fear and terrorism . |
| 29 | Heather Krohn , widow of Raleigh Krohn , now lives in a converted windmill on the island of Porto Santo . |
| 30 | Perot Systems Corp chief Morton Meyerson , seen as a front-runner for the chief executive post at IBM Corp , is described by the Wall Street Journal as an exuberantly eccentric Texas hacker and outdoorsman who lives in a converted electrical substation with exposed plumbing , a massive crane hanging from the ceiling , and an elaborate concert hall ’ — sounds just the man for the task of turning IBM around . |