Example sentences of "live [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At sixteen they had her married to a cousin who lived about a mile away . |
| 2 | For almost exactly nine years , from the late summer of 1980 to the late summer of 1989 , Poland lived through a political crisis . |
| 3 | Spain lived through a period of being isolated from Europe and the rest of the world ; González 's biggest card remains the memory of Franco . |
| 4 | As a boy he lived through a Depression inside an industrial monster clanking and heaving its passage through an increasingly ungrateful century . |
| 5 | The boy sat hunched on the edge of his bed , his slight shoulders rigid ; the green eyes followed with an uneasy glitter the deliberate progress of his captor 's elegant , muscular hand through a meagre yard of air , and lived through a wilderness of reluctance and temptation during its passage . |
| 6 | I was born in 1934 and lived through a world war . |
| 7 | Christopher Petrie and Jane lived for a year as neighbours : he in the manor and she in the stables-converted cottage , which she made much cosier and more inviting than the manor — one reason perhaps why Christopher spent so much time there . |
| 8 | This was not , as some believe , originally owned by Sir Thomas More , but a later manor belonging to Henry VIII , where the young Princess Elizabeth lived for a while . |
| 9 | In the famous Middletown studies made by Robert and Helen Lynd the Lynds lived for a time in Muncie , Indiana , but were always known to be researchers . |
| 10 | Intimacy with God , with each other , and with the neighbourhood in which we lived , following the example of Jesus in John 1:14 : ‘ The Word became flesh and lived for a while among us . ’ |
| 11 | People dismiss this aspect of Wordsworth 's poetry as ‘ odd ’ , forgetting that George Orwell became a tramp for six weeks and lived for a year as a down-and-out ; and Shakespeare wrote a play about a mad old man who was also a vagrant ! |
| 12 | We lived for a year in a cottage attached to a remote farm — so remote that I have never been able to find it again . |
| 13 | I take a hotel on the rue Larbi Ben M'Hidi , formerly the rue d'Arzew where Camus lived for a while , a street of arcades and white buildings with yellow ornamentation . |
| 14 | A win or a loss could affect how well you lived for a day or two . |
| 15 | A contemporary of Gundulić was Junije Palmotić ( 1606–57 ) , a Ragusan noble who lived for a time in Bosnia , and who drew upon the Slav folk tales as well as on contemporary Italian and ancient classical traditions for the abundant outpouring of songs , satires , verse epics and dramas which he composed . |
| 16 | The idea of ‘ half-way ’ houses , where discharged patients lived for a year or eighteen months and then moved to ordinary independent living , became fashionable in the 1960s . |
| 17 | In 1902 he lived for a short period in Clerkenwell , east London . |
| 18 | Scott inherited the family estate in 1596 , but from 1612 until towards the end of his life he lived for a good part of the year in Canterbury . |
| 19 | ‘ We lived for a time in Washington DC , ’ she said slowly . |
| 20 | I believe that Unesco got the idea when he saw that TV series about some people.who lived for a year in a simulated stone-age Village , cut off from the world . |
| 21 | Hunt lived for a time as a tax exile in Marbella , sharing an estate with another ex model , Jane ‘ Hottie ’ Birbeck . |
| 22 | A short , wiry Lebanese in his fifties , Talar lived aboard a partially finished 81-foot yacht , King Edmondo , with a tall , blonde Danish woman who towered over him and was known locally as ‘ Foofoo ’ , as she was thought to be somewhat strange . |
| 23 | The box where he lived as a stallion is still preserved on the estate . |
| 24 | A singer of poignant songs , Rikoran was born near Mukden in Manchuria in 1920 of Japanese parents , but lived as a young girl with a Chinese family . |
| 25 | Now a man may marry his stepmother or stepdaughter , or a woman her stepfather or stepson , provided that the younger person is aged at least 21 and has not at any time before reaching the age of 18 lived as a child of the family of the older person . |
| 26 | She was probably not born into the wild , but she lived as a feral dog . |
| 27 | But the most pathetic of all was the fourth widow , Mrs Shepman , aged eighty and in poor health , who lived as a lodger . |
| 28 | He went home with a couple who had been together for twelve years , not because he wanted to know what it would be like to be made love to by two men at once , but rather to see how these particular two men lived as a couple ; specifically , what they did together in the morning before going to work . |
| 29 | He had an excellent temperament and lived as a family pet . |
| 30 | He lived as a village carpenter 's son . |