Example sentences of "live [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sam looked out over the flooding river and breathed in the damp smell of the morning as if testing wine for bouquet , and I thought that he lived through his senses to a much greater degree than I did and was intensely alive in his direct approach to sex and his disregard of danger . |
| 2 | Her many ‘ seeings ’ of Christ and the Holy Family may have been delusions which she actually lived through , as Ruskin lived through his conflicts with the Devil , or they may have been deliberately induced auto-hypnosis deriving from the Revelations of St Bridget , to whom Margery had a special devotion . |
| 3 | He had broken more bones in his body riding horses that anyone she knew , yet he lived for his hunting . |
| 4 | For four years , Edouard lived for his work . |
| 5 | He lived for his profession , so much so that , instead of limiting himself to examining the remains of bomb-blast victims , he attended the courses and lectures available only to a very few on bomb-making and disarming offered at Fort Halstead . |
| 6 | He lived for his reunion with Elizabeth ; all that sustained him until then was the daily letter from his new wife waiting for him in his lodgings . |
| 7 | Tony , shy and introverted , lived for his painting , while Zelah seemed to live as she wrote , with an engaging panache . |
| 8 | I froze when they first said that in the town where we lived for his firm job . |
| 9 | Doughboy … a giant of man who did n't drink or smoke and just lived for his studies , and his rowing . |
| 10 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |
| 11 | ‘ After that he lived for our visits and started repeating ‘ Stroke , stroke , stroke ’ about six times . |
| 12 | We sat on a park bench in Clifton , having revisited the streets where Moggach lived during her time in Bristol . |
| 13 | The dominance of the figure of Frederick Barbarossa makes it easy to lose sight of other major characters who lived during his reign . |
| 14 | Right so , you know , there are those who would teach that Jesus he would die for our sins and he 's forgiven us sins , but only those who come to him , Jesus died for the sin of the whole world , for every man , woman , boy and girl that has ever lived or ever will live , he died for the sin of the whole world , not just for those even who lived after his death , that 's why it talks about in the Old Testament people like Abraham looking for that day , and so Jesus who in , when he died , because he 's eternal , so we 've got the problems with time , God has n't got problems with time , he 's eternal and so his sacrifice , the sacrifice of him on the cross was effective for Abraham as it is for you , it was as effective for David as it was for Paul otherwise Abraham would never of had his sins forgiven because what happened with all the sacrifice with all the little lambs that were killed and all the goats and all the rest they only acted as a covering for sin , did n't take them away , it covered them , what for , until the moment when Jesus would come and would take those sins away and so when you think of David 's sin , his adultery and his murder , how does he get forgiven for that because Jesus died from the cross and he takes upon himself David 's sin and he takes upon him Abraham 's sin and Noah 's sin and Adam 's sin , just as much as your sin and the person who will be born in ten years time their sin also , all our sins er as Gloria just read there from , from one John to two they were all of him he has died for every one , well that 's his humiliation , hurry along quickly now his exhortation , the period from Jesus 's resurrection onward is referred to as to the , as the state of exhortation , now what does that term mean , well as Jesus according to his divine nature has always been , he was always every where , now in his human nature , before , be , sorry it 's not , it 's not on that one , but before he , he came to earth , he was every where , he was God , he was , he was omnia present that means he was every where at the same time , but he takes upon himself he 's su , he 's , he 's human nature and he takes upon himself the limitations and when Jesus is walking down second avenue in , in Jerusalem he 's not in Nazareth that 's why there were times when people came to er , to , to , came rushing out because they heard that Jesus was passing by , see he was n't there resident with them , he passed by , now he 's gone back to heaven and where is he , he 's in heaven , he , er whereabouts , where do you think Jesus is now , that resurrected body that was glorified that has gone back to heaven , where do you think it is |
| 15 | She just lives through her children . ’ |
| 16 | Religion lives through its concretion . |
| 17 | In union with him , all of you are being built together into a place where God lives through his Spirit . |
| 18 | ‘ Only there is a young lady as lodges with me , who asks me every day what Mrs Browning writes and is eager to know for she announces she lives for your poetry . ’ |
| 19 | He lives for his Mamma , his famiglia , his money . |
| 20 | Alex Gair ran through choking smoke to telephone his grandfather , Mr Gerry Gair , who lives near their bungalow in Nursery Lane , Nutley , near Uckfield , Sussex . |
| 21 | We go up several flights of stairs to the room where Rezia lives with her husband and son . |
| 22 | Gail now lives with her widowed mother who looks after all her needs . |
| 23 | She lives with her husband , labrador and bossy cat |
| 24 | Elizabeth : Elizabeth , a young woman who lives with her sister in a remote and primitive cottage in the Welsh mountains , came to see me about an infestation of scabies . |
| 25 | She lives with her husband and four children in Liphook and is hoping enough people will sponsor her run to raise a much needed £18,000 for the West Sussex Macmillan Service , which includes Haslemere , Hindhead and Liphook in its area . |
| 26 | She lives with her partner , director Taylor Hackford , in Los Angeles , ‘ I really resisted falling in love , but was pulled by this tidal wave . |
| 27 | My friend is a single mother who lives with her two children on a local council estate . |
| 28 | She lives with her boyfriend , Vadim . |
| 29 | Svetlana Petrova , 29 , is an avant-garde fashion designer who lives with her philosopher husband in a squat in St Petersburg . |
| 30 | She lives with her father and leads a very quiet life . |