Example sentences of "[was/were] live [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were no prizes for guessing , after tonight , that the Desmond Seymour-Stracheys were living on a financial knife-edge , and would be interested in any sudden accession of wealth , by any means , from any source . |
| 2 | By then we were living in a dirt-cheap place on the Bowery . |
| 3 | About this time it was announced that pensioners whose means were insufficient to pay their rent were to have the amount made up by social security allowances even if they were living in a private home , so with a light heart I set about making application . |
| 4 | ‘ Katy and I were living in a small flat and we were so low that we did n't even bother with a Christmas tree . |
| 5 | By now they were living in a small town , Modyokerto . |
| 6 | We were living in a spectacular era : Mussolini made war on hapless Ethiopia ; after the death of King George V came the brief reign of Edward VIII , his abdication and marriage to Mrs Wallis Simpson ; then the happier reign of King George VI . |
| 7 | In 1986 , about 1.6 million children were living in a lone parent family . |
| 8 | Several weeks ago , Alida realised , and so , perhaps it was true and Isabel Lavender was living under a double strain , of fear of a demented sister , and of poverty . |
| 9 | When Bell and his colleagues analysed the contents of the stomachs of four of the five ( they did not study buffalo ) , they found that each species was living on a different part of the vegetation . |
| 10 | The fact is she ran away from her home in late 1962 and her mother heard a few months later that she was living as a common street girl near King 's Cross Station . |
| 11 | At this time Luke was living in a two-bedroom apartment on Yokum Drive . |
| 12 | She tells me it felt as though she was living in a violent void , that she was losing touch with everything until … ’ |
| 13 | A small , fat , rich man sat ogling girls ' legs : he was there most days and represented everything Camille most despised : she thought that he imagined he was living in a Continental fashion . |
| 14 | Margy was twenty-seven when we spoke with her and was living in a one-bedroomed flat in Newcastle-upon-Tyne with her three-year-old daughter Donna , her second child . |
| 15 | Now he came to the youngest brother , who was living in a tiny hut in the forest with his young wife Militsa . |
| 16 | Indeed the new millionaire of the Beatles was living in a small room in the Asher family 's Wimpole Street home , next to Peter 's Norwegian-wooded apartment . |
| 17 | By the end of the decade he was living in a new house built within the precinct . |
| 18 | He was living in a modern flat , nice flat , well-carpeted , wel nice furniture in there and er , you know the difference of Midlands and south India at that time was tremendous . |
| 19 | My most valuable experience was a few years ago when I was living in a dingy student room in Grenoble . |
| 20 | For the first two weeks I was living in a double room with Toril . |