Example sentences of "[pron] live [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes he hit me , sometimes he just threatened me , and I lived in terrible fear of him . |
| 2 | I bought him different clothes , and had his hair cut , but to me he looked just the same , and I lived in constant fear that he would be recognized by someone who had known him in the past . |
| 3 | Storm Jameson , a woman novelist active in the peace movement , later recalled : ‘ For some years after 1933 I lived in equivocal amity with pacifists and combative supporters of the League of Nations , adjusting my feelings , in good and bad faith , to the person I happened to be with . |
| 4 | We therefore find ourselves living in disputed territory . |
| 5 | Yet I am so little and I live behind hard iron bars , eating synthoats … ’ |
| 6 | I live in Kentish Town , you see , and Denis Neilsen , the famous head-boiler of Muswell Hill , worked in our neighbourhood Careers Office . |
| 7 | I live in reckless estrangement from philology — a worse alienation is unimaginable … |
| 8 | Well , I live in sheltered accommodation and , believe me , I have to pay the full licence fee . |
| 9 | I live in constant fear of a disaster . ’ |
| 10 | Animals which live in open country , such as the African bush , tend to have their fovea elongated into a strip . |
| 11 | In 1985 regulations were held to be void as having no statutory authority where their purpose was to force able-bodied young people who lived on supplementary benefit to move from one area to another in search of employment . |
| 12 | A great aunt , who was also pious , but who lived in manorial comfort , provides by contrast the most immaculate portrait of respected ageing : |
| 13 | Mrs Yaxlee , by no means the eldest of the clan ( there was a great aunt of eighty-seven who lived in independent squalor at Nether Oldfield ) but still a senior member , sat in her parlour surrounded by the trappings of her state . |
| 14 | The same payment is given to staff who lived in furnished accommodation at the previous base who move to rented unfurnished property at the new base or who buy their own houses in the new area . |
| 15 | The coastal villages were a little bigger , containing many landless peasants , represented by numerous 20s. assessments , who lived by grazing stock on the common saltmarshes . |
| 16 | Even so , it did strike me as peculiar that someone who lived by French literature should be so calamitously inadequate at making the basic words of the language sound as they did when her subjects , her heroes ( her paymasters , too , you could say ) first pronounced them . |
| 17 | She lived in miserable anticipation of the day when Camille fell in love with some nightmare youth . |
| 18 | Anyone wanting to join has to apply and needs a two-thirds vote in favour to be allowed in , ’ says Mr Smythe , who lives at Green Bank , Heighington , near Darlington . |
| 19 | Her mother who lives at nearby Bowleymead is estranged from her husband Richard Yates . |
| 20 | It 's a man who lives in Merry Beauchamp . ’ |
| 21 | Mr Wareing , who lives in Green Acre Drive , Bromborough , Wirral , is also the liaison officer for the Duke of Edinburgh scheme . |
| 22 | Ed , who lives in rented accommodation , plans to use the money as a down-payment on a house . |
| 23 | She lives in rented accommodation . |
| 24 | For those men and women who live into middle age , pain , disease and poverty are the norm rather than the exception . |
| 25 | The old people who live at Branksome Hall really look forward to our events . |
| 26 | The dead man 's father Mr Humphrey Jowett , and his wife Elizabeth , who live at nearby Manor Farm , Newton Tony , were on their yacht in the Caribbean . |
| 27 | Others I met included , who had organised this splendid day in conjunction with , who live at nearby Fonmon Castle , in South Glamorgan ; , who is secretary of the Cirencester Polo Club , and his charming wife who is such a good time keeper and was going to time the match later . |
| 28 | There will be millions of losers who live in high-price property who enjoyed the poll tax but will now pay much more under the council tax . |
| 29 | However , affluence and technological advances have created new kinds of safety hazards for people who live in Western society . |
| 30 | But unlike the millions of Indians who live in hopeless poverty , England 's highly paid cricketers will have the best accommodation and hospitality available . |