Example sentences of "[be] live [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I confess I should hardly venture to hope that more than two millions of skilled workers , representing a population of five millions , are living habitually in a state of ease and comparative security of the modest sort … |
2 | If a woman and a man are living together as a couple , the woman can be charged her partner 's Poll Tax if he does not pay , and the man can be charged the woman 's Poll Tax if she does not pay . |
3 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
4 | Pamela and he had been living together for a while and , until recently , Jimmy had been close to a happiness previously denied him ; both as lover and as surrogate father . |
5 | Larry and Tina have been living together for a year . |
6 | Yet , as he has been living out of a suitcase now for 20 years , he can be forgiven for feeling battle weary . |
7 | One with all the attributes of a jet-setter , considering the sort of life he must have led before the accident that had put him out of motor racing , yet he seemed to be living here like a monk . |
8 | We were living quite near a saddler 's shop in Debenham , and I was always interested in it . |
9 | ‘ We were living out of a hat dramatising dirty jokes . |
10 | The figures actually which I got from the director yesterday are that the department is counting four hundred and ten vacancies of those four hundred and ten , two hundred and thirty four are out of commission , they 're in homes being refurbished seventy two are in blocked places , that is double rooms being lived in by a widow or widower where er they 'd previously shared it with the spouse or er disability reasons , health reasons , behaviour reasons of a resident er in a previously shared room . |
11 | The house was n't run-down , either , but there were touches here and there betraying the fact 64 that it had n't been lived in for a couple of years ; the windows that were n't shuttered were n't clean , and there were weeds pushing up through the gravel . |
12 | But her deep tanned face had been lived in for a fistful of decades . |
13 | She certainly did n't like to say that he was living there with a girl . |