Example sentences of "live for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Christ lived for others in his relationships , so we must serve others , not only in marriage , but in all our friendships and other relationships . |
| 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 | and suddenly I mean people lived for centuries there |
| 8 | I lived for months with real friends who loved England and could not get enough to eat from her . |
| 9 | Between the covers , the endpapers are elegant and sepia-tinted : at the front a romantic photograph of Menabilly , the large , elegant house in Cornwall where du Maurier and her family lived for years , and , at the back , a mirroring idyllic picture of du Maurier and her three young children , sitting , in all the innocence of short white socks , on a fallen tree trunk with a wide view of the sea behind them . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She lived for occasions and would not miss one for the world . |
| 12 | ‘ She 's the sort of woman who lives for others — you can always tell the others by their hunted expression . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ He lives for football and all his mates from his team are in there with him . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | You see , in a school where most people are not living for Jesus it will soon become obvious that you are different and not everybody will agree with what you believe . |
| 16 | What does make living for Jesus at school a lot easier is to know that you are not alone ; that there are other Christians who agree with what you believe and who can maybe encourage you when the going gets a bit tough . |
| 17 | Back in Dublin , I sang and played in pubs , living for music day and night . |
| 18 | At the time I was worn out , still reacting no doubt from living for years on end in fear and dread . |
| 19 | Many have been living for years in a shadowy , illegal world , doing the jobs that affluent Japanese now shun . |
| 20 | Revaluation , while cutting the cost of living for workers as the price of imported goods fell , would reduce their ability to compete profitably abroad , especially in the American market if the revaluation was with respect to the dollar . |
| 21 | The training at Achnacarry did not include living for weeks on end in a hole in the ground subjected to constant mortaring and sniper fire . |
| 22 | It was only when he was confronted by God , broken and forced to give up his pride , that he began to see clearly for the first time the vast difference between living a self-directed life and living for God . |
| 23 | The report , People and Poverty in the North East , says that the cost of living for people on income support is three times as high as it is for those on an average wage . |
| 24 | It 's claimed by many people that we live in a cycle where , if you like , we struggle to get through fifty weeks of the year to live for holidays recharge the batteries , then you go into it again . |
| 25 | But you would not agree to live for eternity . |
| 26 | Now let's strive to live for others . |
| 27 | I was n't put here just to live for others . |
| 28 | To be honest it did n't do much to encourage me to live for Jesus and I do n't think it did anything at all for my non-Christian friends . |
| 29 | I must be absolutely honest though and say that it 's not always going to be easy to try to live for Jesus at school . |
| 30 | In the game between human and bacteria , the ‘ shadow of the future ’ is normally long since a typical human can be expected to live for years from any given starting-point . |