Example sentences of "to live [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 Wilfrid seems to have been her spiritual adviser : she had endowed his new monastery in Hexham , he had veiled her on her entry to religion , and Ecgfrith had reportedly offered Wilfrid land and wealth in order to get him to persuade the queen to live as his wife .
2 Since then he 's had to live through his first wife being run over and his second screen love , unconvincing animal righter and hippie chick Kerry Bishop , being shot dead by illegal duck hunters .
3 Some of the more wealthy groups , or those with better pensions , have greater means than ever before to choose where to live during their retirement ( Warnes 1982 ) .
4 We also send our good wishes to three of our Teachers who will be celebrating their marriages shortly — Anna Koller — who is going to New Zealand to live after her wedding — Jane Rogers and Ruth Bell .
5 Donor Card I would like to help someone to live after my death Let your relatives know your wishes and keep this card with you at all times
6 I want to live nearer my sister .
7 Airports attract hotels and businesses ; they employ large numbers of well-paid staff who like to live near their work .
8 Unless there were special factors involved and although I can not recall a situation where we 've paid for a person to go into that 's for members to discuss , not me , but we have certainly paid an enhanced rate where somebody wanted to go to live near their daughter who was in and we felt that was a legitimate reason for paying a higher rate and , and , and we did do so , so there are other types of flexibility .
9 ‘ When Bernard moved here , I said I had to come too , to live near my son .
10 He is determined to live amongst his people , to travel with them .
11 Although certain forms of severe mental handicap can lead to a limited life-expectancy , medical skills are improving considerably ; for example , it is common for Down 's adults to live into their fifties and sixties .
12 He had learned to live with its many secrets and its brooding sense of menace .
13 ‘ There could be literally a multitude of quite proper reasons why a child decided it no longer wanted to live with its parents . ’
14 I 'm learning to live with its troublesome Jekyll and Hyde nature .
15 Time may sort it out for me , but meanwhile I have to live with its niggle .
16 When the judge heard Celia hoped to live with her mother in Birmingham , he asked probation officers to report to him .
17 Now he recalled how , on the second night after his mother had left home , he had climbed out of bed in the late evening and slipped unnoticed from the house to run over a mile to Bournemouth Central Railway Station to catch a train to nearby Christchurch , where his mother had gone to live with her sister .
18 The hardest lesson for Gilly to learn is that she and nobody else is responsible for her own actions and that she has to live with her own mistakes .
19 Thus the daughter of one mother who drank asked to go to live with her grandmother , in her well-ordered ‘ nice ’ home : ‘ but they would n't let me go .
20 In a similar kind of way , one Essex farm labourer 's daughter was called back from service to live with her ageing parents again , the household supported partly from the wages of younger brothers , and partly from pigs and hens which the old couple kept themselves .
21 Mary , a 26-year-old woman with two children aged 1 and 3 , had divorced her husband 6 months before her overdose and gone back to live with her parents .
22 Three months later she left her parents and went to live with her boyfriend Peter .
23 Last month a 12-year-old Devon girl became the first in Britain to win an order allowing her to live with her grandparents .
24 SHANNEN Doherty has confessed to going on a six-month drink and drugs binge after running away at 18 to live with her 31-year-old boyfriend .
25 Eventually she fled to live with her father , attending a succession of schools including one for girls with behavioural problems .
26 Allison Dutton , 24 , was working late at her office in Cherbourg , France , where she had moved to live with her fiance , when she was stabbed 18 times .
27 Bubbly schoolgirl Claire says she 's had enough of the Cinderella lifestyle forced on her by her natural mother and wants to live with her former foster parents .
28 After three years fostered to a kindly couple who treated her as their own , she went back to live with her mother .
29 When the case went to court Claire 's solicitor was granted an order allowing her to live with her foster parents until a full hearing .
30 The girl , Kelly Fitzgerald , was put on Lambeth 's at risk register in 1989 but was removed soon after she went to live with her grandparents in 1991 .
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