Example sentences of "to live on " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all that I was going to live on … alone … to write the ‘ Memoirs ’ … to listen to Mozart in Salzburg . |
| 2 | ‘ What am I supposed to live on in the meantime ? ’ |
| 3 | It is intended to provide a regular weekly income if you do not have enough money to live on . |
| 4 | Like supplementary pension it tops up your income to the amount the government says you need to live on . |
| 5 | Work out the amount that the Government says you need to live on , ( this is called your applicable amount ) . |
| 6 | What matters is that something should be done to give us jobs and money to live on . |
| 7 | Father was convinced that his wife would not have enough to live on when he died and overworked to get money . |
| 8 | For example , a new band signing a major record deal may well spend £50,000 recording an album and receive another £50,000 in personal advances ( money to live on until royalty income is generated ) . |
| 9 | It is important to set a figure for these advance payments which is realistic for the band to live on throughout the period of the contract . |
| 10 | As with recording advances , there is no such thing as a typical figure , but for a non-performing writer , enough money to live on should be sought . |
| 11 | Usually , a band or artist will have only a short working life in which to earn sufficient money to live on for the rest of their lives . |
| 12 | Maggie had barely enough to live on . |
| 13 | I learned that my wife had been released but had very little money to live on . |
| 14 | The spirit of the poll tax , though , threatens to live on . |
| 15 | Most of its 26m people have enough to live on . |
| 16 | ’ , ‘ Comfortable woman needed , good with children … ’ , when the thought came to me that , with a roof over my head and just about enough money to live on , there was no real need for me to work at all . |
| 17 | Mrs Ross , Mrs Girdlestone added , had only her pension to live on , and she repeated that she would be glad if I could do something about her as soon as possible . |
| 18 | She was a wiry little person one would have expected to live on and on . |
| 19 | We had nothing at all to live on ; but one day I received a sum of money that we managed to divide up so that it lasted for many weeks , just so much a day . |
| 20 | These people , I remarked , could pull out of their pockets , thoughtlessly , as much money for a round of drinks as most single parents have to live on for a week ; could pay as much for a few hours ’ sleep as a Third World peasant and his family have to live , or die , on for a year . |
| 21 | ‘ Do you know , before this I went out and bought Tesco 's own-brand baked beans to live on for the next month , ’ she remarked , rather unconvincingly . |
| 22 | On a few of the more established family units there had been development into quite considerable contracting businesses which enabled the family to continue to live on or around the farm . |
| 23 | His homosexuality made him an outcast , he had no job to do , very little money to live on , and ended his days in an alcoholic haze clinging desperately to his Old Etonian tie as the last link with his sordid past . |
| 24 | By twelve o'clock he had usually earned enough to live on for the day . |
| 25 | Removing the supports of these state agencies — the welfare net , subsidized public services — would face people with a ‘ reality test ’ : that if you do n't sweep floors eight hours a day , you wo n't have any money to live on . |
| 26 | Of course we all need sufficient to live on — and it is hard to be joyful if those basic needs are not met — but , however trite it may sound , there is much joy to be found in a spring day , the expression on a baby 's face or the touch of a loved one 's hand . |
| 27 | Miss Miggs had only her old-age pension to live on , and the return fare to Gridford , Christine found out , was very nearly seven pounds . |
| 28 | Absenteeism and drop-outs among adults were increasingly common because , as teachers in this school pointed out , either they were too busy working to earn enough to live on , or they could n't afford to buy paper and other materials . |
| 29 | He had long since retired from competitive football and like his tragic contemporary , the boxer Benny Lynch , Gallacher only had memories to live on . |
| 30 | It was far too small for the three of us to live on . |