Example sentences of "[pron] live [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 All of them lived with a nervous expectation that it could happen to them .
2 Some of them lived in a rented house , while the Taiwan Ten took over the garage and yard .
3 This figure declined slightly for older children , a growing proportion of whom lived with a natural parent and a step-parent .
4 What had originated as a spontaneous civilian outburst now began to be depicted in the international media as a revolt by Iraq 's majority Shia community , most of whom lived in the southern part of the country .
5 The report showed that there were between 27,000,000 and 35,000,000 blind people in the world , over 90 per cent of whom lived in the developing world , mostly in rural areas .
6 Nothing lived in the entire village , and there was no sign of what had caused the deaths .
7 Everyone lives on a neighbourly basis with each other .
8 Of course , not everyone lives in a nuclear family , and there are families where the costs are shared equally or nearly so , or where the housing tenure is held jointly by both partners , but they are not the norm .
9 For the first two months I lived with a French family in Fontainebleau and studied with a Commandant Lettaure , who was coaching fifteen other young Englishmen .
10 I lived with an elderly lady in a little thatched cottage which looked like something out of Hansel and Gretel .
11 I lived in a small village in Essex with my sister , who was over twenty years older than me , and married to Joe Gargery , the village blacksmith .
12 Finances were riding along the crest of a slump and I lived in a one-room penthouse in Bakers Arms , Leyton ( on top of the opticians ) .
13 I lived in a large house converted into flats .
14 I lived in a different house , read different books , played different games and so on , and , despite various efforts , could not become popular .
15 My wife Eva and I live on the northern-most tip of the island of Barbados where we run the Pirates Tavern and the tourist centre of ‘ Animal Flower Cave ’ .
16 For example , I live in a rural village that is prized because of its good connections with London .
17 As the Minister knows , I live in a rural area and if I want to go to hospital I first have to go to Paisley .
18 I live in a one-bedroomed flat with very little cupboard space and I 'm fed up with the piles of clothes and shoes I trip over all the time .
19 I live in a simple house .
20 I live in a small village in Suffolk called Wetheringsett .
21 That 's always a concern at the villages , because I live in a town , I live in a small town near here , erm I 've had a lot of dealings in villages , and people who live in villages always want to have starter homes , but as soon as you put an application in for starter homes , there 's even more opposition to it , as happened down in Bleasby , Council threw that one out .
22 He says we 've had wide and varied enquiries — especially from London-based purchasers looking for something for the weekend — something he can tell his friends ’ Well actually I live in a turreted folly in the Cotswolds ! ’ …
23 They ai n't gon na be in time — I live in a short street .
24 Now I live in a painful planet , transparent as ice ; but it is as if I had learned everything in seconds …
25 ‘ My nieces also tell me I live in the Mughal age , ’ he replied .
26 The Prime Minister answered a question that I put to him earlier this year by referring to the fact that he did not believe that I live in the real world .
27 Many have good sight , but there are a few forms which have lost their eyes , some of them living in the lightless world of caves .
28 It was a picture — a picture of a pearl necklace that my mother used to have , which lived inside the little drawer on her dressing-table , in its own special case lined with black velvet .
29 One species , which lives in a small area round the Suez , certainly does ripen its eggs at full moon , and a sea urchin off California has a similar lunar cycle , so there may be some substance to the fishermen 's claim .
30 It 's larva is a fierce predator of small fish , insects and invertebrates , which lives in a silty tunnel on the lake or river bed .
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