Example sentences of "live [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My parents , and most Asian parents , they live for their children . |
| 2 | some people they only live for their partner do n't they and a thing like that get a |
| 3 | You live for your job . |
| 4 | ‘ I live for my art . |
| 5 | In these areas , people live near their work , work in small units of employment and , hence , belong to real local communities in which so-called community politics is viable . |
| 6 | Sheila is very fond of entertaining — many famous friends live near her lovely riverside home in Berkshire . |
| 7 | I have lost them all , and live like my bones , separate and ageing in a cleverly concealing skin . |
| 8 | People should learn to like their bodies and live with their faults . |
| 9 | The overwhelming majority of children , 98% , live with their natural mother . |
| 10 | They are just for sad trainspotters who still live with their parents at 29 and fancy Lady Penelope off Thunderbirds and wear a scarf and read 2000AD are n't they ? |
| 11 | A nine-year-old boy and his sister , 11 , who live with their grandparents in Reading , Berks are trying to stop their mother embarrassing them by turning up drunk at the school gates . |
| 12 | Plants live with their roots in soil , which enables them to anchor themselves and stand upright . |
| 13 | As would be expected from the evidence about marital status presented earlier more men ( 60 per cent ) live with their spouses than do women ( 32 per cent ) . |
| 14 | Clearly those who live with their dependant are heavily committed to their task . |
| 15 | But ten times as many children of divorce live with their mothers as with their fathers ; more than eighty-five per cent of divorces , granted on the grounds of unreasonable behaviour , are given to wives complaining about their husbands ' conduct , and the number of wives made to pay off their ex-husbands is still tiny . |
| 16 | Parents in modern society seldom receive material benefits from their children and do not , except in Japan , usually live with their children in old age . |
| 17 | We assume that children he has will be young children , children of an age who usually live with their parents . |
| 18 | Since , in the case of the parents being separated , young children usually live with their mother in our society , we might infer that the woman 's children are in some form of institutional or educational care . |
| 19 | The guardian ad litem prepared a report in which she recommended that the children live with their father and , in the body of the report , stated that for the local authority to carry out an assessment of the father at the same time as the children were being prepared for a long-term placement did not ‘ enable an open and honest working relationship . ’ |
| 20 | Some get married , others live with their boyfriends , but a lot are on their own , and either return to the family home , or get a council flat or house . |
| 21 | There are women who live with their husbands and they hate their husbands and do it once a month so their Amex cards do n't get cancelled . |
| 22 | ‘ In Italy young women live with their families ; it is unheard-of for them to leave home . ’ |
| 23 | Infants who live with their mothers in the 3 British prison Mother and Baby Units are the object of much recent public concern and controversy . |
| 24 | One feminist , Mrs Wolstenholme-Elmy ( who as a young woman determined to follow Mary Wollstonecraft 's example and live with her lover , until on becoming pregnant she took the advice of fellow suffragists and married ) accepted the idea that menstruation was essentially pathological , although she also argued that it was caused by men 's brutality . |
| 25 | Let's face it , we live with our negative parts and generally we may beat ourselves in public . |
| 26 | I 've told her , I said , you know , go and live with your boyfriend |
| 27 | So I am an orphan , and live with my maid . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ My parents are dead , and we live with my mother 's brother . |
| 29 | Michael still lives with his mum and I live with my mum , but if I sleep up my house , he sleeps up my house . |
| 30 | ‘ I am 21 and live with my fiancé and our two sons , born in August 1987 and November 1989 . |