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 . |