Example sentences of "live the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the cottage on the other side of the stables lived the village shoemaker . |
| 2 | He boasted a permanent five o'clock shadow and lived the part of a hard-drinking , hard-swearing , poker-playing small town boy who belched and spoke his mind . |
| 3 | He lived the part of a blind man so much so that he tripped and fell after leaving the set and damaged the cornea of his eye because he had trained himself not to blink ! |
| 4 | When Mr Cohen was well , they lived the life of any well-to-do family of the time , in the Edwardian style of the period . |
| 5 | Meanwhile she lived the life of which she had dreamed . |
| 6 | He lived the life ‘ of a spotless bachelor ’ . |
| 7 | For two long years I lived the life of a slave . |
| 8 | The eldest son James succeeded his father as master carpenter to the Ordnance and lived the life of a country gentleman in Surrey , serving as high sheriff of the county in 1764 . |
| 9 | For two months I lived the life of a quiet and responsible man . |
| 10 | West of the Irtysh in the woodlands along the northern edge of the Kazkh steppe lived the west Siberian Tatars and their neighbours in the Ural foothills , the Bashkirs . |
| 11 | We stayed in that house till I were eight year old and then we were went on to where I lived the rest of my time and that would have been from nineteen twenty to oh a couple of year ago . |
| 12 | ‘ But Ryan lived the majority of his life in Santa Barbara , not in Santa Inez , and he should be here . ’ |
| 13 | He lived the inquiry for all his waking hours . |
| 14 | In one half lived the miner Charles Decrucq and his family , and in the other a fellow evangelist of whom nothing is known , except that his surname was Frank . |
| 15 | In the second of these houses , next to a six foot wide snicket which led to Paynes Hill , lived the Burden family consisting , if memory serves , of father , mother and four or five children . |
| 16 | In the house opposite , by Giovanni Antonio Lurago , lived the priest of the Church of St Nicholas , after 1777 . |
| 17 | Mrs Over said : ‘ Elizabeth lived the danger element in everything she did . ’ |
| 18 | M. and Mme Guérigny lived the week long exclusively in the bedroom and kitchen , and only those two rooms were kept heated . |
| 19 | But that process is only possible at all because of the Incarnation , Passion , Resurrection and Ascension of Christ who lives the love of God triumphant in and beyond the sins of time . |
| 20 | A key text is his early essay , ‘ Structure , Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences ’ , which concludes that there are two possible interpretations of interpretation : ‘ The one seeks to decipher , dreams of deciphering a truth or an origin which escapes play and the order of the sign , and which lives the necessity of interpretation as an exile . |
| 21 | You know old Nancy Leadbetter lives the spit of an olive stone from Mondano ? |
| 22 | Inside the solid lumps of our brain lives the experience which appears to the subject as an ordered world , the room in which I write for example . |
| 23 | Well he lives the life of luxury . |
| 24 | How can any writer know where lives the reader for whom the advice is intended , and what the weather will be ? |
| 25 | Forget anything you 've heard or read about ‘ living the part ’ . |
| 26 | She was living the part , he said to himself , and then : no , it 's me that 's living the part . |
| 27 | She was living the part , he said to himself , and then : no , it 's me that 's living the part . |
| 28 | While in 1920–1 Eliot admired both Edward Wadsworth 's drawings of industrial landscapes and Picasso 's primitivism , he found himself living the life of Thomson or of the city clerks he had read about in Conan Doyle , Davidson , Conrad , and elsewhere . |
| 29 | I hear that all the older boys are driving big expensive cars and living the life of Riley . |
| 30 | And to possess the pledge of the Spirit is interpreted as living the life of faith ( 2 Cor. 5:5,7 ) . |