Example sentences of "[verb] live [prep] the country " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's been doing the journey for fifteen years because he says he loves living in the country . |
| 2 | Explaining to Louise the pull of foreign lands ( December 11th , 1846 ) , Gustave writes : ‘ When we are children , we all want to live in the country of parrots and candied dates . ’ |
| 3 | Brenda had not long come to live in the country . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd hoped , like you , that everything would be all right , that I 'd feel differently once the baby came , that I 'd come to like living in the country . |
| 5 | Why could n't this woman simply accept it as a fact of life , part of her make-up , such as not wanting to live in the country or swim in the sea . |
| 6 | ‘ Are they going to live in the country ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ We 're going to live in the country , in a dear little white house near a railway line . |
| 8 | She had spoken to her about it , not sharply , of course — she could never do that — but with disappointment to which Gemma had calmly replied , " Mother , I told you all along that I did n't want to live in the country . |
| 9 | Research has shown that 80 per cent of the population would prefer to live in the country rather than in a city or urban town . |
| 10 | After two years of this , Miss D'Armande remembered , Miss Ray suddenly left the theatre and went to live in the country . |
| 11 | I think I might go to live in the country , in the 1980s . |
| 12 | Brenda liked living in the country for some things , but not for others . |
| 13 | Like all Celtic people they preferred to live in the country . |
| 14 | ‘ Home ’ in Victorian fiction , corresponding to the actual shift in population , is mainly in the city or its suburbs , where there are no great houses to set the standard ; and even when characters do live in the country , great houses no longer dominate rural communities in the same way . |
| 15 | When she married she had to live in the country and , instead of bemoaning what she 'd lost in the way of concerts and the theatre , she enjoyed what was on offer . |
| 16 | The West Germans were prepared to pay handsomely for the right to emigrate of hundreds of thousands of German-speaking Romanian citizens whose ancestors had lived in the country for centuries . |
| 17 | Approximately 2 million Greeks , whose families had lived in the country for generations , were forcibly repatriated and nearly 6 million Armenians were systematically killed or driven from their homes . |
| 18 | ‘ I have lived in the country all my life . |