Example sentences of "[adj] live [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people at the children 's home were very kind , but it 's not very exciting to live in a place like that , is it ? ’ |
| 2 | If people say that it is wrong that teachers should be allowed , even encouraged , to tell pupils that it is acceptable to live in a household in a particular form of sexual relationship , that goes beyond what is a proper and a responsible training for life in society . ’ |
| 3 | It would be impossible to live with a woman like Gwen and not know that other men envied you , would like to fish in your pond . |
| 4 | Even were he able to persuade her to marry him , somehow he could not envisage her being content to live on a ranch among a whole lot of strangers and without the luxuries she took for granted . |
| 5 | While the rich could flaunt their wealth the numerous urban poor lived in a state of penury . |
| 6 | Now a man may marry his stepmother or stepdaughter , or a woman her stepfather or stepson , provided that the younger person is aged at least 21 and has not at any time before reaching the age of 18 lived as a child of the family of the older person . |
| 7 | He says it 's better to live in a town without too many cars with everybody with just a bike . |
| 8 | The population does not , unfortunately , all live within a mile of Whitehall ; nor does it consist exclusively of Englishmen . |
| 9 | United lived on a tightrope at times . |
| 10 | £12 for the year for those living within a radius of 50 miles of the training venue . |
| 11 | And she must have been fabulously rich to live in a house like this . |
| 12 | ( I am not , however , suggesting that if you exercise it will be possible to live on a diet of eggs , butter and cream — moderation in all things ! ) |
| 13 | Two were women : one lived as a recluse at St Julian 's church in Norwich and is known as Julian of Norwich ; the other was an ebullient housewife from King 's Lynn — Margery Kempe . |
| 14 | In one , for example , a casual labourer and his wife in their sixties lived with a woman of 79 , her son of 57 who was a street matchseller , and six younger tenants ; in another a woman of 68 was subletting to another woman of 65 , a crippled woman of sixty , and two others ; while in a third household a 71-year-old sandwich-man lived with an unrelated widow and widower of the same age and two younger tenants . |
| 15 | Coenred , son of Wulfhere , was a man of at least 30 years of age , possibly older , who abdicated five years later in 709 to live as a monk at Rome ( HE V , 19 , 24 ) and who was succeeded by Aethelred 's son , Ceolred . |