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

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1 Somehow , since being at Vetch Street , working so hard , and living a life so different from her old one , many events in her past had taken on a different colour .
2 ‘ Been dead for years now , has Titch , do n't live to a grand old age as a rule , his sort , everything 's compressed , you see , and he lived a lot longer than they usually do .
3 Then Porua gave his short laugh and said , ‘ Why should those pigs wish to live a day longer ? ’
4 Years later Eliot and his second wife were to live a stone's-throw away .
5 However , our lives worked out , we are both happily remarried and , since we only live a mile apart , it 's very easy for the children to come and go to visit their father . ’
6 It was such a shame because Grandad James Hauxwell had lived a life somewhat fuller and more exciting than most in Baldersdale .
7 He seemed to answer every question I had ever asked and to have lived a life far above everything I knew was to be aimed at .
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