Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] live [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ God forbid ! ’ said Dionne , ‘ just that I 'm living with a delinquent at the moment and it makes me feel mature . |
| 2 | Here you are , about to be launched in your own right as a successful couturière and I 'm living in a country thousands of miles away , helping to manage a thoroughbred farm . ’ |
| 3 | I felt inadequate because I was living with a man . ’ |
| 4 | It 's not simply a matter of defying conventions although I admit I have been strictly brought up and I think it would break my parents ’ hearts if ever they came to know I was living with a man who was not my husband . |
| 5 | ‘ I was forced to face the fact that I was living with a woman I actually disliked and I had no one to blame but myself . |
| 6 | I was living in a friend 's attic workshop and in need of something to take my mind off my troubles . |
| 7 | At the time I was living in a bedsit in Chelsea and was unemployed ; through a mixture of odd jobs and the DHSS I managed to keep myself in beer and cigarettes . |
| 8 | ‘ I was living in a council flat with two young children and I went to see the housing boss , which was him , to ask for a bigger place . |
| 9 | We well ye yes I can but er obviously er I , I , I sha n't be doing because erm I 've got too many er hopefully too ma d it 's much better , it would have been much better if I was living in a home , you see where , where we can |
| 10 | ‘ At this time , I was living in a sort of Walter Mitty world . |
| 11 | When you last saw me I was living in a room |
| 12 | Many years later , married and with small children , I was to live in a house with a garden which had a gate into Green Walk , the only place where I 've actually seen a nightingale . |
| 13 | You think ; you 're living in a home , you 've got everything and someone else has n't . |
| 14 | I do n't like to say that you 're living in a caravan with no proper job . ’ |
| 15 | I heard you were living with a cabinet member 's daughter and fighting for Gay Rights in Fast Cheam ? ’ |
| 16 | She 's lived in a hut in a clearing just beyond the trees for God knows how long . ’ |
| 17 | She wrote to Carrie and Nick and said she was living in a boarding house in a street near the docks , in a dark little room that smelt of kippers . |
| 18 | She was only half aware that Rachel was heavily subsidising her rent , because she was living in a part of London and a sort of house so different from her friends that she had no easy comparisons . |
| 19 | Even the fact that she suggested that they get married shows that she was living in a fantasy world . |
| 20 | She was living in a bed and breakfast place for thirty-five pounds a night , and paying each day — it was n't the kind of hotel where you settled the bill as you left . |
| 21 | ‘ We are living on a time bomb here . ’ |
| 22 | We are living at a time when everyone is forced to adopt a political position : one day it will become clear that 6 February 1934 marked a dividing point in literature as well as in politics . |
| 23 | Er , today and every day , almost , a question of the police , at the moment , there is this business going on , er , in in London , at Stoke Newington , over the fact that , the charges against the police for corruption , being involved with all sorts of things that they should n't , er , and we are living through a time , where the police is having to fight a battle for it 's own respect . |
| 24 | Undoubtedly we are living through a period of considerable political instability , in which there is a complex ‘ crisis of legitimacy ’ ( to use Habermas ' expression ) not only in the capitalist societies but also in the former communist societies of Eastern Europe , and in many countries of the Third World ; but the crisis works itself out through an international system of relationships , and such events as the overthrow of President Allende 's government in Chile , or American and Soviet military intervention in various regions of the world in the postwar period , can not be fully comprehended unless they are seen in the setting of global political conflicts . |
| 25 | We can see hunger , destitution , torture ; we are living in a state of war . |
| 26 | Similarly , if we force them to outwardly behave like us , ignoring the fact that their inner mind still sees things quite differently , then we are living in a fool 's paradise . |
| 27 | I would suggest a counter-proposition : that we are living in a society that is sick and tired of information . |
| 28 | It thinks it 's a civil war , a rebellion , and that we are living in a part of the universe occupied by the rebel . |
| 29 | Lewis could state boldly , as we have seen , that Christianity believes that there is a civil war on , a rebellion , ‘ and that we are living in a part of the universe occupied by the rebel ’ ( Lewis 1942 : 46 ) . |
| 30 | Most people are accustomed to follow linguistic rules more or less slavishly , but in this case they would be glad to change if only someone gave them a new set of clear rules to follow ( an earlier work by Miller and Swift was subtitled ‘ New Language in New Times ’ : it seems they take the optimistic view that we are living in a postfeminist world ) . |