Example sentences of "and live [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neighbours said one of the arrested men moved into a flat just before Christmas and lived with a woman presumed to be his wife and two sons in their mid-teens . |
| 2 | The boy sat hunched on the edge of his bed , his slight shoulders rigid ; the green eyes followed with an uneasy glitter the deliberate progress of his captor 's elegant , muscular hand through a meagre yard of air , and lived through a wilderness of reluctance and temptation during its passage . |
| 3 | I was born in 1934 and lived through a world war . |
| 4 | Intimacy with God , with each other , and with the neighbourhood in which we lived , following the example of Jesus in John 1:14 : ‘ The Word became flesh and lived for a while among us . ’ |
| 5 | People dismiss this aspect of Wordsworth 's poetry as ‘ odd ’ , forgetting that George Orwell became a tramp for six weeks and lived for a year as a down-and-out ; and Shakespeare wrote a play about a mad old man who was also a vagrant ! |
| 6 | He had an excellent temperament and lived as a family pet . |
| 7 | She was big , well-off , theatrical , and lived above a butcher 's shop in Shepherds Market , Mayfair . |
| 8 | He was unmarried and lived in a superlatively untidy one-room flat quite near the lab , to which he travelled by bicycle . |
| 9 | One was an Abergavenny horse-cab proprietor who ‘ drove a lot of nobility around ’ although ‘ he was very aged ; ’ he had married his housekeeper after becoming a widower , and lived in a mill where his grandson ‘ used to learn all about his horses . ’ |
| 10 | Sadly , as much as we wanted to keep her , we were out at work all day , and lived in a flat without a garden . |
| 11 | One recent theory says that the common ancestor of all living things was a bacteria that consumed sulphur compounds , and lived in a volcanically hot environment that was hot enough to boil water . |
| 12 | He followed his father 's profession as a whitesmith , locksmith , bell hanger and general ironmonger and lived in a house in Broad Street where he fiddled the local gas company by bypassing the meter using a section of old piping . |
| 13 | Ackroyd enjoyed a quiet bachelor life and lived in a small house by the crossing . |
| 14 | Eileen remembers Selina as a bubbly girl who helped to scrub the floors of the tourist office , made her own clothes and lived in a small cottage . |
| 15 | He earned nearly £22 a week and lived in a bedsitter . |
| 16 | Percy Wood was appointed senior labour master in 1933 , and lived in a cottage on a site now occupied by the boilerhouse . |
| 17 | Even Graham , one of the few members who had left home and lived in a flat , would be helping in the campaign , although he would not be voting Conservative , so much did he dislike the personality and politics of the local MP . |
| 18 | For a century , the typical UK employee was male , engaged in manual factory work , and lived in a large industrial city or town — with many implications for leisure and health patterns . |
| 19 | He then moved out of Paris and lived in villages near the river Seine to the west of Paris — Louveciennes , Marly-le-Roi , and Sèvres — but in 1880 he returned to the area south-east of the forest of Fontainebleau , where he had first painted during the 1860s , and lived in a series of villages near the confluence of the rivers Loing and Seine — Veneux-Nadon , Les Sablons , and Moret-sur-Loing . |
| 20 | And this is a boy who used to smoke marijuana and lived in a squat with a girlfriend who had a tattoo on her backside and two kids by somebody else , if you please … ’ |
| 21 | When I was a pine and lived in a cold climate |
| 22 | At first Leonora was n't sure precisely what Penry had in mind regarding their relationship , and lived in a state of tension between his phone calls . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He spent a week working alongside the farmer , mucking out cattle yards , feeding pigs , dipping sheep ; and living as a guest in his house . |
| 25 | This is the feral dog ; the domestic animal adapted to the wild and living as a wild animal . |
| 26 | Apart from doing the job of Principal ( for which I shall need a lot of help from the Lord ) , and living as a Christian I do n't yet know what the Lord wants me to do out there . |
| 27 | Fashanu was 20 in 1982 , and living with a girl . |
| 28 | One hundred and ten people infected with HIV reported 119 children , of whom 60 were dependent — that is , less than 16 years old and living with a parent . |
| 29 | The hospital authorities had tracked her down in California , where she was enjoying success as a fabric designer and living with a famous composer of film music . |
| 30 | His widow , Jane , spent her last years — until 1789 — at Chiswick , attending the parish church of St. Nicholas , and living on a pension from the Royal Academy , as requested by the King . |