Example sentences of "live [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Born in Berlin in 1916 , he lived through defeat , mass unemployment and the rise of the Nazis . |
| 2 | Thereafter he lived for society and gossip , projecting a ‘ History of his Times ’ , the materials of which were to be his long , delightfully observant letters to his favourite stepdaughter , Elizabeth Ord . |
| 3 | I had no sister , I went to all-boys schools , I lived out of town , never went to parties and while for others girlfriends were the in-thing , I lived for sport . ’ |
| 4 | Leontyne Price sang ‘ Visse d'Arte , ’ from ‘ Tosca ’ : ‘ I lived for art and love … |
| 5 | When bad times came and wages were below the level on which they could support their families , the labourers found that they had to ask the authorities of the parish in which they lived for relief ; in other words they became paupers , who could be sent to the workhouse . |
| 6 | MURDERED traveller Elizabeth Over lived for adventure and a challenge . |
| 7 | Most of Rory 's pals in London were in the International Marxist Croup , but here he was ; wandering the hills with an upper class dingbat who just happened to be married to his sister and who lived for huntin' , shootin' and fishin' ( and seemed to spend the absolute minimum amount of time in his castle with his wife ) , and who had just last year rationalised half the work force in the glass factory out of a job . |
| 8 | ‘ He lives for football and all his mates from his team are in there with him . |
| 9 | We may notice too that since pleasures tend to fade unless varied at every recurrence it is difficult to distinguish in practice between the man who lives for pleasure and the man who lives for new experiences . |
| 10 | The images are vivid : an unmarried mother who lives off welfare cheques ; a young man who drifts from girlfriend to girlfriend , selling drugs to get by . |
| 11 | Concern has been voiced over the plight of the Dipper , a bird which lives near upland rivers in the north and the west of the country . |
| 12 | But as with all trades and professions , the man who lives amongst Christmas trees , is often the last to have one in his living room . |
| 13 | Mrs Morrison , who suffers from back trouble and can barely walk , was in tears when she arrived home at Quaker Lane where she lives with daughter Joan McIntyre . |
| 14 | You might expect the creator of such grisly images to be a bit of a ghoul himself but Hutson is a small , chirpy bloke who lives with wife Belinda in a new , mock-Tudor Bovis home in Milton Keynes , listens to heavy metal music and supports Liverpool . |
| 15 | The white-sock dealer , it seems , is a young jack-the-lad who lives with mum and dad , has access to their telephone , offers ridiculous fax prices to the hungry punter and is well pleased with his £50 profit margin . |
| 16 | Last week Australian-born Lady Tryon ignored her problems to hold a fashion sale in the grounds of her home in Great Durnford , Wiltshire , where she lives with husband Anthony and four children . |
| 17 | And it was a young fellow who lives up Lane so I felt quite comfortable in saying I did n't think they had any young fellas who lived in Lane . |
| 18 | For life lives upon life : what is life to one is dinner to another ! |
| 19 | He 's expecting to see son Gary when he arrives in the North ; he lives in Dad 's old home town of Middlesbrough . |
| 20 | Tracie is still staying at the £750,000 house with the children while Davidson lives in hotel rooms . |
| 21 | and then pick her mother up cos she lives in Creep as well , she ca n't stay at her mother 's house cos she 's just |
| 22 | The archer fish lives in mangrove swamps in South-east Asia , where it frequently searches for food near the surface of the water . |
| 23 | ‘ Her name is Seren Haminh ; she lives in Corridor 11 , Square 4 . |
| 24 | In 1987 the SNP trailed the three other parties with a lowly 10.7 per cent but this time says Mr Fisher , a widower who lives in Dollar , the mood is different . |
| 25 | It needs a heart of stone not to sympathise with a figure in this predicament — a figure on whom it may rest finally to decide whether South Africa lives in peace or at war . |
| 26 | But lives in sepia shades |
| 27 | Mark ( being sexist and homophobic — but not giving a toss cos he lives in West London and can continue gloating to Chelsea fans for another season ) |
| 28 | Jill Winter ( Mrs Bromley ) lives in West London with her husband and sons aged 12 and 15 . |
| 29 | The patterns of tooth wear and growth and the precision-shear bite are comparable with those seen in Uromastix , a thickset , stumpy-tailed modern lizard , 30 to 40 cm long , that lives in North Africa and Asia . |
| 30 | Mr Hoskins , 50 , lives in North London with his wife , Linda and their two children Rosa , 9 , and Jack , who is five . |