Example sentences of "live [prep] the states " in BNC.
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1 | were doing this programme in the United States that 'll be , but then of course you living in the States you 'll probably all have guns |
2 | He 's closely studied Clinton 's Oxford career , writing to all his classmates now living in the States . |
3 | Well I erm , I was , I was burgled about a year ago and I 'm am ex er , I 'm a retired criminal lawyer , and , but I , I felt that if I lived in the States and trained in the States and I carried a gun then and I felt very vulnerable in not having a gun because he , I was in my own home and he fist me with a knife |
4 | I 've managed to erm , the first time we went skiing is when we lived in the States , we went to like , er , not dry ski slopes there , but it was like false snow , that 's the same as you erm , they were really , was like eleven years ago , sort of like , technology had n't quite advanced terribly much , you know , and these bindings , you had like , metal clips on the bottom of your boots , and you had to put the thing in and clip the boot , clip the thing round on the skis , to keep your boot on the ski , right , it was n't like toe clips where you shove your foot , |
5 | Problems had eased between them when Lori had left home to make her career in modelling , and Paige had actually thought they would end completely when Lori had married a wealthy American and gone to live in the States . |
6 | ‘ My relatives all live in the States — his are in Jersey . |
7 | In fact , nearly all our best friends from way back now live in the States , so in that sense it 's like home from home . |
8 | She had lived in the States for several years but she still retained her British accent , though she often maintained that she loathed England and would never return to it . |