Example sentences of "[vb past] live [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After Arnold died , Nancy , feeling more strongly than ever what she had always known , that he was the only man she had loved , came to live permanently in the house where he had always seemed happiest , a piece of property he had picked up for a song in the sixties from Barone Dulcibene 's father-in-law , old Count Umberto Baderini . |
| 2 | I had a couple of books which I had slipped into my light case — Somerset Maugham 's novel The Moon and Sixpence , which I was looking forward to reading again because it was , of course , based on the life of the painter Gauguin , who 'd lived here in the South Seas ; and a collection of Guy de Maupassant stories , in English . |
| 3 | The place had belonged to a Polish woman , who 'd lived there as a child and then rented it to students for the past fifteen years . |
| 4 | The political scene in 1990 was dominated by the run-up to the November presidential elections [ see pp. 37850-51 ] , the continuous peace talks with the URNG , which failed to live up to the promise of the June agreement [ for 1990 peace talks see pp. 37372 ; 37527 ; 37707 ] , and the controversy with the US government over political assassinations by right-wing paramilitaries [ see p. 37311 for March 1990 withdrawal of US ambassador and p. 37912 for December suspension of US military aid ] . |
| 5 | Profits were better too in Australia , but 's in the USA failed to live up to the promise seen in the first six months . |
| 6 | Within the holdings , the biggest disappointment was Thomson Corporation , which failed to live up to the hopes expressed in the last article that ( a ) the travel side would benefit from the collapse of Intasun , a major competitor , ( b ) that the results of the North American ( and at a later stage UK ) newspaper interests would reflect a developing cyclical upturn , and ( c ) that the professional publishing companies would maintain their profits momentum . |
| 7 | There is a small dam to pass , and then it 's plain sailing all the way back to the car park to live with the shame that we failed to live up to the term ‘ fit walkers ’ . |
| 8 | He says that it is a sad fact that many early RDS receivers failed to perform even basic tasks adequately , and many people have been put off RDS for life because of : ‘ experiences with receivers that performed inadequately and which failed to live up to the promises the broadcasters made for them ’ . |
| 9 | By virtue of this settled view he managed to live tolerably through the period , to risk his fate in a number of bold throws , and to emerge at the end with his dignity unimpaired and his power enhanced . |
| 10 | Marie 's parents had strong religious views that made her feel very guilty about having sex in their home when she and her husband had to live there for a while : " We did it on the bedroom floor on the wedding night because I would n't use the bed , in case it made a noise . |
| 11 | ‘ I adored Bristol and if I had to live anywhere in the world , I would come back and live here . |
| 12 | It was a long while since she had visited her old home , and longer still since she had lived there as a girl . |
| 13 | These neighbours had lived there for a number of years ; they knew Mrs Browning well , and what they told my husband made us feel rather small , and very inexperienced . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , prior to our moving in , 27 cats had lived there with a professor of history and his wife who were a little eccentric . |
| 15 | In the past the people of Elling had lived communally in a series of longhouses that were not , as now , separated into single family dwellings . |
| 16 | ‘ The woman involved was a married woman with a family and she and Philip had lived together for a couple of months but she decided to go back to her husband in September . ’ |
| 17 | Two men had escaped the inrush but had been trapped in a long section of roadway ; they had lived together in the pitch dark and freezing cold for about 8 days , until overcome by poisonous gas ; there was no way in which they could have been saved in time had their position been known . |
| 18 | In my teens I had lived precariously on the lip of first class rugby by virtue of knowing every trick in the canon , evil and otherwise , by being a bad bad loser , but chiefly and perhaps only because I was very nippy off the mark . |