Example sentences of "[pron] live [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without turning round he said in a harsh voice : ‘ If you want to know about Inez , Mr Wycliffe , you must ask Sara , the two of them lived in the same house for nearly twelve years . |
| 2 | What had originated as a spontaneous civilian outburst now began to be depicted in the international media as a revolt by Iraq 's majority Shia community , most of whom lived in the southern part of the country . |
| 3 | The report showed that there were between 27,000,000 and 35,000,000 blind people in the world , over 90 per cent of whom lived in the developing world , mostly in rural areas . |
| 4 | Nothing lived in the entire village , and there was no sign of what had caused the deaths . |
| 5 | The project outline claims that no-one lives in the inner zones , although this is disputed by local non-governmental organizations ( NGOs ) , which insist that tribal people currently use all of the forest . |
| 6 | I lived for the six weeks almost as one of the Community except that I did not sleep at the Manor . |
| 7 | Luckily I lived at the higher end of the village so my house was not affected . |
| 8 | Now when er when I was coming down er , coming from , I lived on the Green then , to go to work , we used to met er a person and we used to call her Rosie . |
| 9 | ‘ I lived in the same house as him once . |
| 10 | How will I live for the next hour . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ My nieces also tell me I live in the Mughal age , ’ he replied . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He and I live in the same street . |
| 17 | There are 200 species of primate , 90 per cent of them living in the tropical rainforests of Asia , Africa and South and Central America . |
| 18 | Many have good sight , but there are a few forms which have lost their eyes , some of them living in the lightless world of caves . |
| 19 | " The skeleton of a micro-organism which lived in the ancient seas from which the chalk in the putty was deposited . |
| 20 | Now there was once a Queen , who might have been thought to have everything she could desire in the world , but had set her heart on a strange silent bird a traveller had told of , which lived in the snowy mountains , nested only once , raised its gold and silver chick , sang once only , and then faded like snow in the lowlands . |
| 21 | The rooks and crows which lived in the decaying stumps of the castle 's high towers could talk ; they had been given the voices of Quiss and Ajayi 's respective rivals , unfaithful lovers and hated superiors . |
| 22 | It was a picture — a picture of a pearl necklace that my mother used to have , which lived inside the little drawer on her dressing-table , in its own special case lined with black velvet . |
| 23 | The blue-ringed octopus , which lives in the subtropical and temperate shallow waters off eastern Australia , is comparatively small , with a diameter of only 20 cm ( 8 in ) . |
| 24 | It is characteristic that the more modest member of these august committees fail to recognize themselves as belonging to the Great and Good , a tribe which lives in the great terra incognita of Quangoland . |
| 25 | The Ammophila wasp , which lives in the open desert lands of the American mid-west , when breeding time comes starts digging a burrow . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The plan will involve studying the behaviour of these shy nocturnal creatures which live in the thickest parts of woods . |
| 28 | Over the millennia , creatures which live in the specialized conditions of rivers have evolved by adapting to these conditions . |
| 29 | Capercaillies are large black grouse which live in the coniferous forests of northern Europe . |
| 30 | Not all of the émigrés from Eastern Europe were so fortunate as Goma and Tanase , who lived with the constant threat of assassination at least until Christmas 1989 . |