Example sentences of "[pron] live [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I live with a constant and uncomely reminder of folly and failure , and no doubt it does me good . |
| 2 | I know I live on a fierce and magical planet , which sheds or surrenders rain or even flings it off in whipstroke after whipstroke , which fires out bolts of electric gold into the firmament at 186,000 miles per second , which with a single shrug of its tectonic plates can erect a city in half an hour . |
| 3 | My wife Eva and I live on the northern-most tip of the island of Barbados where we run the Pirates Tavern and the tourist centre of ‘ Animal Flower Cave ’ . |
| 4 | I 'm not very sure it 's prudent if you 're indicating your own incorruptibility as a poet to put it in the future tense in the first place , and when you continue as Pope does ‘ Envy must own , I live among the great ’ as he starts to describe his own life and you realise he 's bringing in touches about himself which really have very little to do with the particular role as poet , it becomes quite clear that that depersonalisation process has not taken place in the case of Pope . |
| 5 | For example , I live in a rural village that is prized because of its good connections with London . |
| 6 | As the Minister knows , I live in a rural area and if I want to go to hospital I first have to go to Paisley . |
| 7 | I live in a one-bedroomed flat with very little cupboard space and I 'm fed up with the piles of clothes and shoes I trip over all the time . |
| 8 | I live in a simple house . |
| 9 | I live in a small village in Suffolk called Wetheringsett . |
| 10 | That 's always a concern at the villages , because I live in a town , I live in a small town near here , erm I 've had a lot of dealings in villages , and people who live in villages always want to have starter homes , but as soon as you put an application in for starter homes , there 's even more opposition to it , as happened down in Bleasby , Council threw that one out . |
| 11 | As you say , I live in a cold grey city where few people care . ’ |
| 12 | He says we 've had wide and varied enquiries — especially from London-based purchasers looking for something for the weekend — something he can tell his friends ’ Well actually I live in a turreted folly in the Cotswolds ! ’ … |
| 13 | They ai n't gon na be in time — I live in a short street . |
| 14 | Now I live in a painful planet , transparent as ice ; but it is as if I had learned everything in seconds … |
| 15 | ‘ My nieces also tell me I live in the Mughal age , ’ he replied . |
| 16 | ‘ Most of the time I live in the real Peru , ’ he told me , ‘ but the Cross Keys is designed to be Not Peru — a place where the gringo and the expat who live here all the time can escape from all the hassling , the beggars and all that crap — and relax . ’ |
| 17 | The Prime Minister answered a question that I put to him earlier this year by referring to the fact that he did not believe that I live in the real world . |
| 18 | On many islands , though , the lists of species are enhanced by mobile visitors , which can also live elsewhere ; the Galapagos Islands , for example , in the Eastern Pacific , have one kind of penguin that lives nowhere else , but also have three kinds of boobie bird , plus frigate and tropic birds and brown pelicans , which live throughout the warm oceans . |
| 19 | Methane , the hydrocarbon commonly known as marsh or swamp gas , is produced by bacteria which live in an oxygen-free environment such as at the bottom of swamps and rice paddies and in the guts of ruminant or cud-chewing animals such as cattle , sheep and camels where the bacteria help to break down food into a digestible form ( enteric fermentation ) . |
| 20 | Over the millennia , creatures which live in the specialized conditions of rivers have evolved by adapting to these conditions . |
| 21 | Capercaillies are large black grouse which live in the coniferous forests of northern Europe . |
| 22 | Make sure that there is a map of the area on the wall showing local bus routes to assist those parents who live outside the immediate school area . |
| 23 | This is because , in Western industrialized culture , those who live outside the nuclear family are vulnerable , and their numbers are increasing . |
| 24 | For feminists like me , who live through the political processes of women 's liberation , which turns sex inside out and reforms relationships with men , even if it does n't revolutionise them , talking to these young , single mothers proves that gains won in sexual relationships are not necessarily permanent or universal . |
| 25 | For those of us who live with a friendly cat it is hard to understand people who suffer from a terror of encountering felines at close quarters . |
| 26 | Tabkay , as they call him , is one of 35 Buddhists who live at the 30-room Kilnwick Percy Hall , otherwise known as the Madhyamaka Buddhist Centre , just outside Pocklington . |
| 27 | It is presented as proof of the success of her softer approach to all those Frogs , Krauts and Wops who live on the other side the English Channel . |
| 28 | In 1982 she found the right spot , in the harsh thornbush country of the Laikipiak Maasai , who live on the northern slopes of Mt Kenya . |
| 29 | As was pointed out in the previous chapter , the plan of the Victorian house and the Victorian city have this in common : that both are so designed that the few who live on the privileged side of the divide need know nothing of the many who are crowded beyond it into a fraction of the space . |
| 30 | Your article on the Zambian food riots was accurate ( NI 189 ) : I have just returned from visiting friends who live on the Zambian Copperbelt and it was a shock to compare the well-provisioned tourist hotels with the half-empty shops in the city of Ndola . |