Example sentences of "[verb] live [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This worked as a strategy at least for as long as the persons involved lived in the same household and shared their resources . |
| 2 | She said that had been his double and he 'd got away scot-free to come to live in the last country in the world where people would think of looking for him . |
| 3 | IF YOU WANT to live in the dampest homes in England , rent a house or flat privately . |
| 4 | In drug addiction and in the eating disorders the processes may be even slower because the drugs or the distorted eating pattern may cause more confusion and damage to thought processes and also because the sufferers may be young and may need to live through the emotional pain of adolescence that is necessary for maturity and which they earlier avoided by recourse to mood-altering chemicals , substances or behaviour . |
| 5 | At first sight the five all appear to live on the same species of grass , herbs , and small bushes . |
| 6 | I do n't have a great deal of sympathy for his argument , since the BBC has to live in the real world like everyone else . |
| 7 | She had gone through rather a bad patch since she had come to live in the banqueting hall . |
| 8 | The Trinity Area , a serviceable enough place to live in the 17th century , was fast becoming a slum for the destitute . |
| 9 | Maude 's telegram from the Queen was also expected this morning at Trees Park Village , near Middleton St George , where she has lived for the last seven years . |
| 10 | Strong political statements commenting on Ireland where she has lived for the past two years . |
| 11 | It actually takes someone who has lived through the past 40 years as an adult to appreciate how extraordinarily the England of the 1970s differed from the England of the 1940s , and the France , Italy or Spain of the 1980s from those countries in the early 1950s . |
| 12 | Sachin Tandulkar , Yorkshire 's first-ever overseas player , does his best to look as if he has lived in the northern county all his life |
| 13 | Milton has lived in the same stable all the time he has been with the Whitakers . |
| 14 | For 18 years he has lived in the same house in London 's Gospel Oak , though he could easily afford the neighbouring and more upmarket Hampstead . |
| 15 | After the hearing Mrs Todd , who has lived in the same house for 27 years , said she had no plans to move . |
| 16 | Des Aust has lived in the same house all his life . |
| 17 | Des Aust has lived in the same house all his life . |
| 18 | It also contained her unconscious valedictory : As a Catholic observer who has lived in the Third World for nearly 30 years , I have followed developments in the Church , at times with despair but mostly with optimism . |
| 19 | Adaptation to Roman society and culture ; doctrinal self-definition , and organizational solidification : the century and a half after Constantine 's conversion was all this ; but more than anything else , it was the time in which Christians learnt to live in the new conditions of their existence . |
| 20 | Maybe I was less fortunate than my colleagues in my experience of Heathrow , but even my landlady in Twickenham was a most severe character , as mean as mustard with food and I seemed to live in the expensive Airport restaurant even when I was off duty . |
| 21 | In 1955 a solitary bottlenose dolphin came to live in the remote Hokianga Harbour in Northland , New Zealand , and was soon to cause a sensation . |
| 22 | This may or may not entail living in the same house . |
| 23 | They like living in the dappled shade of taller trees . |
| 24 | The new west seems to live by the three Ds : data , dogma and disputation . |
| 25 | Nicole Ward Jouve 's story of a French woman coming to live in the cold damp English countryside and her growing disenchantment is funny and telling . |
| 26 | Mr Powell answered : ‘ You do n't have to live under the same laws as a foreigner in order to trade with him . |
| 27 | ‘ My beloved husband died after a lingering illness on 29th April at 18 minutes past 4 o'clock in the morning … if he would have lived to the 25th August , he would have been 63 years old . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I feel as if , by the time I retire , I shall have lived through the entire life-cycle of post-war higher education . |
| 29 | The trouble with having lived in the Middle East for a year or two is that , wherever one goes , one is bound to run into acquaintances ; and that means drinks at the nearest bar , and more acquaintances , and finally the complete derangement of one 's intended programme , and great loss of time . |
| 30 | Having lived in the Big Apple some years previously , Robbie is glad to be back ‘ in his kind of town ’ . |