Example sentences of "live a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the glamorous careers she creates for her clients , Sarah herself lives a low-key life in Battersea with her daughters Noelle , 13 , and 13-month-old Genevieve . |
| 2 | In the old mining village of Clara Vale , on the other side of the River Tyne from Wylam , lives a retired pit overman and rescue team worker , Mr J. C. Bell . |
| 3 | Condemned to death for a work of fiction , Rushdie still has round-the-clock protection , still lives a strange half-life of hide-outs , a hostage to hatred . |
| 4 | ‘ The writer of this article lives a long way from Washington and would not know the answers to these questions . ’ |
| 5 | I 'm thinking of people someone shall we say er Well I I 've got two sons one lives locally and one lives a long way away . |
| 6 | All money purchase schemes are potentially unpredictable , and are especially likely to lose value through monetary inflation ( and not least if the annuitant lives a long time ) unless the annuity is fully index-linked , which is not the case under present legislation . |
| 7 | What does a miner who has irreparable damage to his lungs and lives a miserable life say when he reads of huge awards of damages in libel actions ? |
| 8 | How the Other Half Lives A divorced woman rings her ex-spouse : Perhaps you could spare some time to see the children on Saturday … |
| 9 | I think he lives a fair bit away . ’ |
| 10 | She insists she lives a frugal life . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's just that my mother lives a few miles away from there , in Blindenhall . ’ |
| 12 | First , Matthew 's secretary , the girl who works in the office next door , turned up for work as usual this morning ; she lives a few miles out and she knew nothing of what had happened . ’ |
| 13 | She says she had no idea that there was a REAL Paradise in Gloucestershire , even though she only lives a few miles away . |
| 14 | Certain categories of staff have more chance of being offered accommodation , but this may be limited to single applicants living a reasonable distance from the parental home . |
| 15 | Zola had written : ‘ Yet these women are not bad , their errors and their disgrace are caused by the impossibility of living a straight life in the midst of the gossip and calumny of the Faubourgs . ’ |
| 16 | It became conventionally acceptable to bemoan the difficulties involved in living a cultivated existence during a period of poverty and dislocation , often expressed in terms of the inevitability of failure , the absurdity of effort , and the necessity of resignation . |
| 17 | The anxiety of the papal reformers to put all clergy under a rule shows that experience suggested to them that celibacy could only be enforced on monks or folk living a quasi-monastic life . |
| 18 | The bland and the placid may seem to sail through life but they are either living a superficial existence or else , like the rest of us , they experience the long shadow of despair . |
| 19 | The comment is irrelevant and demeaning to indigenous peoples living a traditional lifestyle . |
| 20 | At first , I was angry ; then I was living a new life — other things to think about , other people to consider . |
| 21 | It also meant living a certain philosophy . |
| 22 | The problem is that you are dealing with foreigners who insist on having different money , customs , languages , politics , legislation and living a long way away . |
| 23 | A mother with three young children , with no car and living a long way from a general practitioner 's surgery is almost certain not to consult the doctor as often as she should . |
| 24 | He fretted in bed he was used to doing things , living a practical life . |
| 25 | ‘ Old bass-voiced Ethel Walker , ’ Woolf called her and described her as having a ‘ rough-raddled charm , the result of living a regular herring grillers life ’ . |
| 26 | It was only when he was confronted by God , broken and forced to give up his pride , that he began to see clearly for the first time the vast difference between living a self-directed life and living for God . |
| 27 | Holiness , sanctification , living of Godly life , living a pure life they 're not the criteria , they 're not , they 're not , God requires that of us , but they are not requirements for receiving the Holy Spirit . |
| 28 | If she had done as he had suggested , become a doctor maybe , or a teacher , he would be alive today and she would be living a normal life . |
| 29 | After 1,908 days of terror Joe was looking forward to living a normal life and getting back to work as a senior administrator with the American University . |
| 30 | We can start living a normal life again now . ’ |