Example sentences of "lives 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 . |