Example sentences of "to live [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The teaching was just something that kept me alive ; I 'd tried to live off music before that , and failed . |
| 2 | The view is widespread : a recent poll by the National Opinion Research Centre showed that 78% of whites think blacks are more likely than whites to ‘ prefer to live off welfare ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ A strange monastic-looking man , ’ said Harold Macmillan , ‘ emaciated and said to live off watercress grown off the blotting paper on his desk . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ We were not born to live off charity in refugee camps . |
| 5 | McNair , the elderly gillie who had agreed to live as caretaker in the Earl 's shooting lodge . |
| 6 | Mr. Belville is after to come to town to settle matters and then to go down to her where they are to live as man and wife . |
| 7 | Just as we might buy a new outfit , then take it home and change out of the old and into the new , so Paul likens the complete change needed if we are to live as followers of Christ . |
| 8 | The school was but one institution in a network created to educate , employ and entertain those members of the British nobility who had the inclination to live as courtiers . |
| 9 | What does it feel like to live through things like that ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But you would not agree to live for eternity . |
| 12 | Now let's strive to live for others . |
| 13 | I was n't put here just to live for others . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Yggdrasil composed an exquisite sonnet that deserved to live for centuries , but kept it to itself . |
| 18 | By mid-1939 , in addition to finding places to live for children who arrived without guarantors , the committees had delegated to them the twice-yearly inspection of homes , arrangements for schooling and vocational training , and the task of sorting out any difficulties over religious education . |
| 19 | Gide at the end of his life remarked that Wilde only began to live after dark as it were , away from most of those who knew him ( So Be It , 27 ) . |
| 20 | If you actually had to live below stairs and see the obscene way people were treated , you might be a little less sympathetic towards a man who claimed just to be following orders because he was weak . |
| 21 | When Hellen and I first came to live near London , the first concert we attended at the Royal Festival Hall was a performance of Beethoven 's Piano Concerto No 4 , with Robert Casadesus at the piano and Andre Previn conducting the London Symphony Orchestra . |
| 22 | Ultimately , the best way to get tickets is to live near Elland Road , or have a relative who does , so you can get to the ticket office in person . |
| 23 | He would go to live near Stowey , and Tom Poole . |
| 24 | We are very fortunate to live near Newmarket where equine veterinary care is taken very seriously and all sorts of equipment is available . |
| 25 | The island abounds in pleasing scenes , and a season may be well spent there by those who desire to live near city comforts . |
| 26 | How much , we wondered , would it cost to live like royalty , or the very rich , to pay someone to come in and do all the things us ordinary folk have to do for ourselves . |
| 27 | She has to live like saint . |
| 28 | When people attempt to live like Jesus reconciliation with God can take place . |
| 29 | You ca n't expect ordinary people in this situation to live like hermits , and it would be unreasonable to expect Charles and Diana to live like hermits . |
| 30 | You ca n't expect ordinary people in this situation to live like hermits , and it would be unreasonable to expect Charles and Diana to live like hermits . |