Example sentences of "live a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's just that my mother lives a few miles away from there , in Blindenhall . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | She says she had no idea that there was a REAL Paradise in Gloucestershire , even though she only lives a few miles away . |
| 4 | The grandparent could have been living a few houses away . |
| 5 | An isolated curate who wanted knowledge found himself living a few yards from a man who at first sight was an explosive popular preacher , but who happened also to be one of the coming academic theologians of England , and an inciter of younger minds . |
| 6 | The tragedy occurred as John Robson , 15 , of Essex Close , Grangetown , Middlesbrough , went to collect paper money owed by Robyn Thrower , 25 , who lived a few doors down from his own . |
| 7 | You nomes in the Store did n't know about my people , and we lived a few miles away . |
| 8 | Liddy was allowed a week 's holiday to visit her sister , who lived a few miles away . |
| 9 | It was at the Camp that Alison met husband Jeff — who actually lived a few miles away back home ! |
| 10 | At the time of the alleged crime , the brothers lived a few yards apart in the Perthshire hamlet of Aberargie . |
| 11 | Having grown up a northerner , I make no apologies for saying that I do not regard myself as a southerner who happens to live a few miles up the road . |
| 12 | Can we reasonably maintain that a woman must continue with a pregnancy in the full knowledge that she will give birth to a baby which will be either stillborn , or live a few days , even hours ? |
| 13 | I only live a few doors down the road from Derek and normally it would have taken me just a minute or two , but on this occasion it seemed to take ages . |
| 14 | Acquainted as I was with his peculiar notions on the subject , I could not help saying , ‘ My dear sir , you must be cold , thus exposed ’ , and he said ‘ No , I have plenty of clothes on my bed , a large fire in my room , and with this pure air passing freely to my lungs , I shall live a few hours longer : but to-day , I think , is my last . |
| 15 | ‘ I could n't bear to think of the future , of what would happen to her when we got old , if we got ill , when we died , or worse — whether she would only live a few years , ’ she says . |
| 16 | She 'd tacked a few scraps of old cotton into a baby-gown too and sent it round next door for the new Rattrie baby , born very inconveniently , as it turned out , the day after the funeral , her fit of generosity entirely misplaced , since the child had only lived a few hours and the gown — upon which Odette had worked a few hasty stitches of embroidery — had ended up in the pawnshop — Cara had seen it herself in the window — to help pay , she supposed , for yet another infantile disposal . |
| 17 | Perhaps it would have been necessary , in order to eliminate the reign of King Edward VIII , not merely for King George V to have lived a few months under the sentence of death , but for Neville Chamberlain , never one for tolerant inactivity whatever his other faults , to have succeeded MacDonald in 1935 . |
| 18 | The Jones ' family had moved in quietly when Jamie was just nine years old , and she had lived a few doors down the street . |