Example sentences of "[adv] live [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | died as , whatever and they went to his eldest brother he said he had to burn all because he only lived in a small flat , he and his wife and two children and they 'd got no room for them to so he had to burn them . |
| 2 | So , even though I was young and inexperienced , I felt that I could appreciate some of the feelings of men like Captain Robins , and now this strange and kindly doctor , ‘ happily ’ married to a woman rich enough to live in a big house facing Wimbledon Common while he preferred a far-off island ; each partner more in love with a way of life than with one another . |
| 3 | For the rest of us , it has been a matter of being lucky enough to live near a decent State school . |
| 4 | You see some of them only live in a small cottage with no garden and that 's an extension to their home , you can go down there with the children |
| 5 | But I would hope , I mean it has given me the the wish to go on living in a similar kind of situation . |
| 6 | Such a man is already living in a different world . |
| 7 | I wonder if they would sooner live in a tribal hut than the white man 's three-bedroomed house with fully-fitted kitchen ? ’ |
| 8 | In the fashion of the philosophers John Locke and David Hume one may say that one can not live as a total sceptic or one would achieve nothing . |
| 9 | An example is ‘ Would you rather not live in a non-fluoridated water area ? ’ . |
| 10 | Whatever the rights and wrongs of this debate , the fact remains that we do not live in a perfect world and , like it or not , we have to rely on a large amount of data derived from animals . |
| 11 | The truth is that Blanche can not live in a realistic world . |
| 12 | Old people do not live in a social vacuum , pursuing their personal goals in ways which do not impinge on others . |
| 13 | For children in the late twentieth century there is the added difficulty that they do not live in a spiritually-secure environment , almost certainly lacking the supportive family and community that was Saint Teresa 's world . |
| 14 | In 1801 most English people still lived in a rural environment ; only one person in every three lived in a town and most of those towns were small by modern standards . |
| 15 | The comrades Honecker , Zhivkov , and above all , Ceauşescu himself , still lived in a mental world shaped by both Stalin 's dreams and his cynical realism . |
| 16 | After all , despite the success of Mossad , Israel still lives in a perpetual state of fear and terrorism . |
| 17 | £5.5m Former model turned singer Sam Fox makes the richest women charts with a £5.5 m fortune — but she still lives in a humble flat |
| 18 | and then suddenly from the other end there 's this like , cos we , it 's like a big room , it 's the other end of the room all the dealers there , and er anyway and er and suddenly I hear , and then someone 's like saying talking , they 're all , somebody 's like mi microphone and starts talking to them about er what 's happening in the market , things like that blah blah blah blah blah , and this means blah blah blah blah so watch out for blah blah blah and I thought it 's like living in a different world , it 's amazing . |
| 19 | She 's divorced , but she has n't emigrated or defected — she 's still a Fellow of Somerville , and still living at a solid address in North Oxford . |
| 20 | Since most people still live within a mundane world view , we also need to keep a foot in both worlds , to stay grounded in common-sense reality , to acknowledge that ‘ This might sound crazy , but I think that blocked sink ( or flock of seagulls , or broken light bulb ) was a message to myself . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Did you ever live in a big house ? ’ |
| 22 | If a Muslim , she usually marries a cousin who lives in the same village so at least the surroundings are familiar to her ; but among Hindus and Sikhs the husband 's family nearly always live in a different village ( because a woman must marry outside her kin ) . |
| 23 | We had always lived in a healthy country , where the mountains were high and the water was cold and clear . |
| 24 | For many it is a strange and difficult experience , one which people who have always lived in a nuclear family find hard to understand . |
| 25 | Mosley also lived in a private world where there was leisure and a sense of fun . |
| 26 | Jean Bevan , the second of these two , had a middle-class previous occupation nursing — but also lived in a working-class area . |
| 27 | Unlike her sisters , Kimberly lives in a rural cottage twenty miles outside of the city . |
| 28 | Anyone who considers such trivial questions as humour or literary merit is clearly living in a previous century and I can only refer them to the motto of the Punch accountancy department , which is : ‘ If they can read , we do n't want 'em . ’ |
| 29 | You should be aware of the peculiarities of the local weather before you make your mind up to live in a particular place . |
| 30 | Among the vanquished was the master chimney-sweeper , whilom incredulous at Stagg 's Gardens , who now lived in a stuccoed house three storeys high , and gave himself out , with golden flourishes upon a varnished board , as contractor for the cleansing of railway chimneys by machinery . |