Example sentences of "[pers pn] live [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of them lived with a nervous expectation that it could happen to them . |
| 2 | Some of them lived in a rented house , while the Taiwan Ten took over the garage and yard . |
| 3 | For the first two months I lived with a French family in Fontainebleau and studied with a Commandant Lettaure , who was coaching fifteen other young Englishmen . |
| 4 | I lived with an elderly lady in a little thatched cottage which looked like something out of Hansel and Gretel . |
| 5 | I lived in a small village in Essex with my sister , who was over twenty years older than me , and married to Joe Gargery , the village blacksmith . |
| 6 | Finances were riding along the crest of a slump and I lived in a one-room penthouse in Bakers Arms , Leyton ( on top of the opticians ) . |
| 7 | ‘ I lived in a large house converted into flats . |
| 8 | I lived in a different house , read different books , played different games and so on , and , despite various efforts , could not become popular . |
| 9 | For example , I live in a rural village that is prized because of its good connections with London . |
| 10 | As the Minister knows , I live in a rural area and if I want to go to hospital I first have to go to Paisley . |
| 11 | I live in a one-bedroomed flat with very little cupboard space and I 'm fed up with the piles of clothes and shoes I trip over all the time . |
| 12 | I live in a simple house . |
| 13 | I live in a small village in Suffolk called Wetheringsett . |
| 14 | That 's always a concern at the villages , because I live in a town , I live in a small town near here , erm I 've had a lot of dealings in villages , and people who live in villages always want to have starter homes , but as soon as you put an application in for starter homes , there 's even more opposition to it , as happened down in Bleasby , Council threw that one out . |
| 15 | He says we 've had wide and varied enquiries — especially from London-based purchasers looking for something for the weekend — something he can tell his friends ’ Well actually I live in a turreted folly in the Cotswolds ! ’ … |
| 16 | They ai n't gon na be in time — I live in a short street . |
| 17 | Now I live in a painful planet , transparent as ice ; but it is as if I had learned everything in seconds … |
| 18 | If Ah lived in a clapped-out city like this with inflation at two hundred per cent , or whatever it is , Ah 'd dae just about anythin' fur payment in solid US dollars . ’ |
| 19 | In the country you lived as a social being and at the valuation of others . |
| 20 | Marie was sure that this was because he did n't want to make his family out as ‘ better ’ than hers : he knew she lived on a scruffy council estate with a bad reputation . |
| 21 | She lived on an emotional see-saw , her jealousy matched by a sublime devotion to Charles . |
| 22 | She was probably not born into the wild , but she lived as a feral dog . |
| 23 | She lived in a one-bedroom flat in St George 's Place as you may know those council flats . |
| 24 | She lived in a one-bedroomed flat , four floors up in a tower block . |
| 25 | She lived in a small house near ours and seemed very old to me ; but that was many years ago . |
| 26 | She lived in a top flat ‘ up a hell of a lot of stairs , and she used to have a parrot on top of the stairs . ’ |
| 27 | She lived in a big house in what they called the stockbroker belt , she had healthy and good-looking children , they took two holidays every year . |
| 28 | Her parents are dead , so she lives with an unkind aunt and her children . |
| 29 | Mary Leapor also knows that she lives in a dirty world . |
| 30 | She felt nothing for me ; she has already forgotten me ; she lives in a drowsy round of smoking , going to the baths , painting her eyelids and drinking coffee . |