Example sentences of "live [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , what , in retrospect , did the person who lived that life consider had happened during its course ? |
| 2 | I never lived that way . |
| 3 | pretty the daisies and things and the Stationmaster lived that side |
| 4 | As you face the station , he lived that side you see and er there , the room where they used to entertain their friends was just the other side of the wall the booking office , you see , and er he was such a kind man , his name was Mr |
| 5 | On one occasion a New Bradwell man , having been unsuccessful in boarding the first two ‘ buses to Bradwell at lunch time , expostulated ‘ I 'll get a seat on the next one even if I have to stand up ’ needless to say he never lived that statement down . |
| 6 | She probably lived that sort of life herself , Stephen thought . |
| 7 | Helen amused herself with the pretence that she always lived this way . |
| 8 | He lived this excess not yet in despair but in the excitement of increasing life . |
| 9 | And if you lived this end of the village you was an uptowner , see ? |
| 10 | Yeah well I was only in Gwindy for three years , then I went to Lewis Girls because I lived this end of I had to go to I loved Gwindy school . |
| 11 | Dotty Harmer , a spinster and stout friend of all animals , lived some quarter of a mile westward towards Lulling Woods . |
| 12 | They were in the custody of the court beadle who lived some distance away . |
| 13 | The guide would be particularly useful to people who lived some distance away and who needed to find out if a visit to the record office would be helpful . |
| 14 | On the other side of the road lived another Brit I 'd met in France . |
| 15 | So therefore , in my mind , we saved probably forty , fifty family lives that night . |
| 16 | Regular visits from a social worker can be of immense value to old people living alone , particularly if their family lives some distance away and can not do all that they would wish for them . |
| 17 | The curriculum should reflect many elements of that part of his ( or her ) life which a child lives outside school ’ ( paragraph 20.5 ) . |
| 18 | John lives opposite Bill ( 38 ) b . |
| 19 | He noticed how bare the room was of the bits and pieces that usually make two lives one life ; but Carla had tried to compensate for that with a beachcomber 's finds : little groups of pebbles and shells on the windowsills , a fan of dried marram in a vase , a gnarled limb of driftwood that she had smoothed and varnished . |
| 20 | ‘ She lives next door . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ He is n't our dog , but he lives next door to us , ’ she explained , ‘ so I suppose I 'd better take charge of him and see that he does n't do any more mischief . ’ |
| 22 | I asked him what his name was and he said , ‘ Tommy Jones ’ or something , and I said , ‘ Who lives next door ? ’ and he gave me another name , and I said , ‘ Oh , no she does n't . |
| 23 | Today it was Sarah Parker , a girl of nineteen who lives next door to the church . |
| 24 | Sally Lyle , who lives next door to the Stewarts ' luxury historic townhouse , said : ‘ No one ever spoke about the case because it upset Glenn so much . |
| 25 | And her sister who lives next door but one from her mums , she done the same thing . |
| 26 | ‘ Peggy who lives next door to my grandma told us she 's in hospital . |
| 27 | I suppose that the ‘ great bloke ’ who lives next door … the dearest friend … is used to all that … hands you on like a bloody parcel at the end of the evening . ’ |
| 28 | And that he lives next door . |
| 29 | And the old caretaker lives next door , so he feeds them and mucks out . |
| 30 | ‘ Tommy Webber who lives next door works in the bar at The Packet so I went along there and sat in the bar until closing time then Tommy gave me a lift home on the back of his bike . ’ |