Example sentences of "live like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Another strange comment I once heard from a doctor was that transsexuals were obsessed by sex , which was great news to us , especially to me , who lives like a monk . ’ |
| 2 | He lives like a farmer . |
| 3 | He is also a kind of consultant that 's less well-known , he 's supposed to run the art market — lives like a tycoon , but he really loves painting . |
| 4 | he used an illustration of the pig , you know you can polish the pig up , you can clean it , you can scrub it , you can oh de cologne it , you can do all sorts of things with it , you can tie a nice pink ribbon around it and you can put it in a palace , but it 's still a pig and it lives like a pig and you can cl and no matter how clean you 've made it , it 'll soon find some dirt to wallow in and the ribbon might make it look nice in the show ground but it does n't make any difference to its nature and so it is with us and so Jesus did n't start on the outside , but he starts at the inside he deals with the route of the problem , in One Corinthians chapter fifteen and in verse three it says for I deliver to you as a first importance , this is the basic thing , he says to them this was the first thing that I said to you because it was the most important that Christ died for our sins , according to the scripture , what ever else Christ gives to us , what ever else he does for us , what ever else the gospel produces , the basic , the most important , the fundamental thing is that Christ died for our sins . |
| 5 | It 's no use living like a cabbage , I do n't think so anyhow . |
| 6 | And all this while , Wexford guessed , Hatton had been living like a king . |
| 7 | There was I , living like a king , whilst literally on the other side of the fence was somebody grovelling in the gutter . |
| 8 | Our Joe 's got 'is own farm in t'Canadas and there 's our Tamar , no better than she should be , and living like a queen . ’ |
| 9 | Which meant sorting out wheat from chaff , and living like a rajah while he did so . |
| 10 | But the soul 's honey is not inert , it is living like a seed which takes root and forms into strange hybrid flowers and even stranger fruits . |
| 11 | As in many English country house sales , the bidding was dominated by private buyers prepared to bid uncommercially high prices for silver which , although good quality and of eighteenth-century date , had been well used ( up to his death in 1990 , the late Fürst lived like a fairy tale prince ) , for lavish nineteenth-century jewellery and bibelots like snuff boxes and jewelled ostrich feather fans . |
| 12 | When I worked abroad , I lived like a gentleman of leisure . |
| 13 | Cotton wrote of Walter Hagen : ‘ He lived like a prince and people treated him like one . |
| 14 | I sacrificed all pleasure when I was a child , to work and study twenty hours a day to support my family — while you , damn you to hell , lived like a parasite off Corosini money ! |
| 15 | Tony Wilkinson dressed up as a down-and-out in London and lived like a tramp for several weeks as part of a television enquiry into London 's dossers , published in book form as Down and Out . |
| 16 | In his great house , almost bereft of servants and filled with damps , glooms and moulds , Porua lived like a soldier under siege . |
| 17 | Due credit for this transformation must be given to the brash and charming American champion , Walter Hagen , who lived like a millionaire and ignored the social conventions of the day . |
| 18 | Well he lived like a millionaire an |
| 19 | ‘ From my boyhood , I always wanted to live in a secluded place , to live like a Sufi . |
| 20 | ‘ Would you expect me to live like a nun ? ’ |
| 21 | Countess Olivia , who recently lost her brother and father , is now in deep mourning and has vowed to live like a recluse for seven years . |
| 22 | For he was born a man , but chooses to live like a woman . |
| 23 | She was perfectly happy to live like a student twenty years after art college , anything so long as she could paint . |
| 24 | A vegetarian 's challenge to a farmer to live like a battery chicken for a week has ended in farce after both sides accused the other of backing out . |
| 25 | It seemed simple enough at the outset … vegetarian author Rebecca Hall offered to pay ten thousand pounds to any farmer willing to live like a battery chicken for a week . |
| 26 | to live like a hermit for six months . ’ |
| 27 | To walk and think and live like a puppet . |
| 28 | And live like a princess . |
| 29 | LIVE LIKE A MILLIONAIRE |
| 30 | Tolstoy , uneasy about his wealth , wanted to reject violence in all its forms and live like a peasant . |