Example sentences of "[noun sg] live [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recruited from the lower-middle or working class , the representative benefactor lived in a small house in a town or city , had no children or had children who were grown up , spoke not a word of German , knew nothing of Germany beyond the front-page news of the Express or Mirror , and did not begin to understand the trauma of being a young refugee . |
| 2 | He was the fifth Richard Gough in succession to live as a small freeholder and yeoman farmer at Newton . |
| 3 | In the words of a working-class housewife living on a new council estate : |
| 4 | It happened with Porky , which was a novel about incest , in which the girl lived in a subsiding smallholding near Heathrow Airport — which is actually where Penguin Books is . |
| 5 | Like the series it supersedes , the L range lives in a slimline casing . |
| 6 | If you find an elderly person or a young child living in a cold room where the temperature is below 16°C ( 61°F ) , then you should quickly take steps to improve the situation . |
| 7 | The mood of the Parisians , when they heard the news for which they had been waiting so long , was recorded by a young Welshman living in a rented room on the Ile de la Cité . |
| 8 | This white man — well , he and Herbert — arrived at this port in Borneo where Boy Monsoon lived in a thatched hut with Balbindor . |
| 9 | Coaches on the way to Hastings made their last stop for horses at Battle 's George Hotel , where the ostler lived in a tiny cottage which still stands in the yard , to be roused by the bell outside his front door . |
| 10 | The demos could mean the whole citizen body living within a particular polis , or city-state , but might also be used to mean " the mob " or " the rabble " or " the lower order . |
| 11 | The spokesman goes on , ‘ What the PLO desires for the Palestinians , is what the majority of people in Northern Ireland require for their people the right to live in a democratic society free from fear . ’ |
| 12 | For example , Jones ( 1976 ) in a study of central Wales found that employment , the desire to live in a better area and a former link with the area were important reasons for explaining the success of a growth pole town , Newtown . |
| 13 | One such pocketed herd lived in a small patch of jungle in the centre of a coconut-growing area at Deduru-Oya . |
| 14 | She had n't known , when she agreed to Caro 's suggestion , that her friend lived on a narrow boat . |
| 15 | It is a bit like a rich person living in a wealthy neighborhood not seeing any poverty . |
| 16 | Fortunately , the following morning I had nothing to do in particular , so I had a chance to live through a vague sense of hangover . |
| 17 | Toubon and his wife live in a former atelier used by Fernand Leger in the 6th arrondissement in Montparnasse and are friendly with a number of leading Paris contemporary art dealers . |
| 18 | Nicolas , 32 , and his 31-year-old wife live in a modest apartment and friends say pride stopped them getting in touch with her . |
| 19 | His other nanny lived in a small house on Park Road , close to St Luke 's Hospital and not far from the park where Frankie sometimes played . |
| 20 | Nanny lived in a big house on the corner of Lansdowne Place , near the club and the post office and opposite the big church . |
| 21 | What it means in practice is that just as a wife has no entitlement to supplementary benefit ( SB ) in her own right — her husband must claim for her as his ‘ dependant ’ — so a single woman living with a male lover may be denied SB and required to look to him for support . |
| 22 | The famous Durance coterie had come to an end and all that was left was Sabine painting in the hills and another old woman living in a neglected villa in Antibes . ’ |
| 23 | A young woman living in a semi-detached house on an unpopular Sheffield estate showed me a letter she 'd just received from the electricity board : " A board employee will … call at your premises to cut off the electricity supply on 9/11/82 . |
| 24 | THE aristocratic former wife of a Scottish earl is now a prostitute and a junkie living in a high-rise council flat , a court heard yesterday . |
| 25 | The layout below allows the owner to live in a high degree of comfort . |
| 26 | An opportunity to live in a smaller community is afforded by the University 's 18 warden-supervised Student Houses . |
| 27 | For eighteen months the Government lived on a wafer-thin majority which was shaved down to two seats , and in economic circumstances of exceptional difficulty . |
| 28 | It frequently happens that a daughter lives with a widowed parent for 20 years or more ; if the parent changes council houses or moves from the private sector to a council house within one year of the death of the parent then on the death of the parent the council house will be the home which contains all the furniture and other articles which form part of the home and have been fitted into the council house by the parent and the daughter . |
| 29 | FOR SOMEONE whose music is as aggressive and uncompromising as Ice-T 's , it comes as some surprise to discover that the rap superstar lives in a charming country cottage about ten miles from Los Angeles . |
| 30 | Finn lives in a small place in America , and having been poor , still lives in the same way . |