Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] live [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And certainly should not live under the rule of a foreign er power . |
| 2 | Why is that happening , because we like to assume in this country that we have enough safety nets to catch those people , to ensure while they may not live in the lap of luxury at least they do n't have to go without . |
| 3 | When he leaves prison he 'll still be banned from tending the livestock … but he 'll still live at the farm . |
| 4 | He might well live in the south of France , for all she knew . |
| 5 | Much more alarming is the idea that you could not tell the difference between an expanding and a contracting Universe , and might indeed live in a Universe in which the arrow of time points in the opposite direction from the one you think it does ! |
| 6 | She knew that he ‘ ought always to live in the country ; and someday you will with me ’ ; for the present , she encouraged him to carry out his father 's plans . |
| 7 | Denmark 's a prison and he 'd rather live in a nutshell ; some shadow-play about the nature of ambition , which never got down to cases , and finally one direct question which might have led somewhere , and led in fact to his illuminating claim to tell a hawk from a handsaw . |
| 8 | I think I 'd rather live in the park than go to the smelly old place . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd rather live in the house with you and your mum , ’ I said , smiling , ‘ but if it 's what you want , then I 'm happy to oblige . ’ |
| 10 | They simply could not live with the pace and power of the English game , well as forwards such as Francis and Robinson played . |
| 11 | But as I looked into her lovely face , I knew I could not live with the lie . |
| 12 | One had to forget — because one could not live with the thought — that this graceful , fragile , tender young woman with those eyes , that smile ( those gardens and snows in the background ) had been brought in a cattle car to an extermination camp and killed by an injection of phenol into the heart , into the gentle heart that one had heard beating under one 's lips in the dusk of the past . |
| 13 | I could not live without a steam iron , or an electric kettle . |
| 14 | Dr Marshall , whose 18 cats occupy an outhouse , explained that with major damp-proofing repairs being carried out , she could not live in the house . |
| 15 | Jimmy Smith polled ten per cent … surprisingly he was beaten by Steve Coppell … but the top two were way ahead … second big Billy Hamilton the ex United striker … and top by a long way the man who could n't live at the Manor with the Maxwells … |
| 16 | She could n't live without the sort of punishment that Felipe thought appropriate . |
| 17 | You 'd have to get rid of a lot of your assumptions before you could fully appreciate why I could n't live with a man I do n't love , or I do n't think you could ever understand why I ca n't accept to be maintained , to put myself at the disposal of another , be in another 's company twenty-four hours a day , share another 's pleasures and pains — and so on . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ He could n't live with the thought that someone had touched me in that way . |
| 19 | ‘ But after what he did , maybe they could n't live with the name . ’ |
| 20 | No you could n't live on the interest . |
| 21 | I realised who I was O K — I just could n't live inside the envelope . |
| 22 | Could n't live in the winter ! |
| 23 | Because she could n't live in the flat , she did n't pay the rent , which meant arrears and no possibility of a transfer . |
| 24 | I could never live with the window shut ! |
| 25 | He continued to assert that he would not live beyond the age of forty and even implied that he would take steps to ensure this . |
| 26 | Jeanne Rynhart , who immortalised the Dublin heroine in a sculpture depicting her as a 17th Century prostitute , said Molly would always live in the city 's folk memory . |
| 27 | He said there is no prospect of Tony Bland improving , but with treatment , he would probably live for a number of years . |
| 28 | I hope you will print my letter for the benefit of the young women who think they are in love and are willing to overlook ‘ a few things ’ because they are afraid that they ca n't live without the guy . |
| 29 | This year they hope to take rock samples , along with more sound reflections , ‘ It 's pretty obvious that the islands ca n't live on an economy of copra and fish forever , ’ said David Falvey from the Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources . |
| 30 | you ca n't live on the dole . |