Example sentences of "[coord] live [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed ‘ being without anyone ’ is a misery far worse for a writer than bad reviews , or a nagging little illness , or a minor bereavement , or living under a bad government — Dorothy Osborne fared very well under the Commonwealth . |
| 2 | If Charlie had been a different man , a cultivated man or effeminate or living in a bygone age when tongues were more freely unloosed , he might now have embraced Jack and told him from a full heart how he entered wholly into his joy and would die for his happiness . |
| 3 | If we are in a happy partnership , whether married or living in a close relationship with a man or woman , retirement years are a time to look forward to and for doing things together . |
| 4 | Loam-based composts are more limey , so if you use rainwater or live in a soft water area , using John Innes compost is especially important . |
| 5 | Anyone who has seen or lived near an opencast coal mining site will understand and agree with a statement which appeared in the First Report of the House of Commons Energy Committee ( 1986–87 ) : ‘ We agree with the CPRE that ‘ opencast mining is one of the most environmentally destructive processes being carried out in the UK ’ . |
| 6 | Eileen remembers Selina as a bubbly girl who helped to scrub the floors of the tourist office , made her own clothes and lived in a small cottage . |
| 7 | Ackroyd enjoyed a quiet bachelor life and lived in a small house by the crossing . |
| 8 | When I was a pine and lived in a cold climate |
| 9 | Funny because he was forty and not very clever and lived in an English suburb called Wimbledon . |
| 10 | He had no financial reserves , and lived in an unfashionable part of London . |
| 11 | This is the feral dog ; the domestic animal adapted to the wild and living as a wild animal . |
| 12 | The hospital authorities had tracked her down in California , where she was enjoying success as a fabric designer and living with a famous composer of film music . |
| 13 | During 1860–2 he had found his title and ideas for some of the leading incidents , including the story of a young man feigning death and living with an assumed identity , but was unable to set himself to the writing until the autumn of 1863 , when he determined not to begin publication until he had 5 numbers in hand , since he was now writing so slowly , with care and with difficulty . |
| 14 | Only a quarter of children with a good relationship and living in a discordant home showed a conduct disorder in a study reported by Rutter ( 1979a ) , compared to three-quarters of those lacking such a relationship . |
| 15 | It 's like we 're sort of living here together — you know , sort of like we 're married or summat and living in a proper house of our own and all that . |
| 16 | By living in a private house the student can be independent while having the opportunity to meet British people and to live in a British environment . |
| 17 | People like Dad did n't struggle to make money and to live in a smart district of Leeds , in order to have a daughter living a dangerous , flashy , immoral life . |
| 18 | We can add to our knowledge of the European from 1880 onwards the fact that he is more and more likely to be a city-dweller , and to live in an industrial city . |
| 19 | Having chosen your leather corals carefully , and provided them with a good aquarium environment , they should grow steadily and live for a long time ( ten years has been reported ) , and possibly even reproduce . |
| 20 | Whatever happened to Shurll , Jane wondered — did she go and live in a hollow tree ? |
| 21 | I knew that they would be criticized by the Fontanellatesi for allowing me to go away and live in a distant city among thousands of Allied soldiers . |
| 22 | The alternative is to defy the IMF and live with a massive deficit , at least until the second budget next December . |
| 23 | Then pass THIS envelope to one of your family and friends WHO HAVE NOT USED YORK BEFORE AND LIVE AT A DIFFERENT ADDRESS . |
| 24 | Of course it is one thing to state baldly that modern Christians are often ineffectual in their witness and live in a privatised world , cut off from the mainstream of social life , but it is quite another thing to make out a case that it is so . |
| 25 | ‘ THE one thing I will never do is change my appearance and live in a blond wig in another country ’ — Author-in-hiding Salman Rushdie . |
| 26 | With Anne , to think was to act and when her father appeared a few minutes later she said immediately , ‘ Dad , Maureen has a friend who 's had to give up his house and live in a crummy room . |
| 27 | I was not from a religious background , and I had previously thought that anyone who went to the mikva had to wear ghastly old-fashioned dresses with thick tights and live in a Yiddish-speaking ghetto ! |
| 28 | Heart experts never tire of pointing out that Winston Churchill started life as a frail premature baby , went on to smoke , drink heavily and eat to the point of obesity , but lived to a great age , whereas Nathan Pritikin , inventor of the Pritikin diet , died a premature death despite being obsessed with health . |
| 29 | A singer of poignant songs , Rikoran was born near Mukden in Manchuria in 1920 of Japanese parents , but lived as a young girl with a Chinese family . |
| 30 | He had married Jemima Mott in 1816 but lived as a childless widower from 1829 after the death of his wife . |