Example sentences of "[prep] live [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After living as a vagrant for several more months and getting nowhere in his search for Katya , Grandfather Denknetzeyan decided to leave his beloved Russia . |
| 2 | To live in one room after living in a country where houses are so open . |
| 3 | The girls at work admired her for living with a man and not being married to him , but she could forgo that pleasure , she thought , for the baby 's sake . |
| 4 | Modi , too , tried to join the Foreign Legion , felt it was the ‘ price ’ to pay for living as a foreigner in France , and justified his inconsistency by saying : ‘ I 'm so much a revolutionary that I 'm even willing to be a soldier and revolt against my own anti-militarist beliefs . |
| 5 | There had been no hesitation of course with regard to the captain who , despite rumours and only rumours about his taste for low company — which she supposed any military man might possess — was a Goldsborough of Frizingley with nothing really known against him but his preference for living in a tavern . |
| 6 | ‘ Not at all , Meg , you 're the sanest person I know , except for living in a caravan on the edge of a cliff . |
| 7 | ‘ This is a programme that can make a difference by preparing our young people for living in a world of powerful images , words and ideas , ’ says Elizabeth Thoman , the Center 's Director . |
| 8 | Academician Dmitriy Likhachev , the highly-respected Chairman of the Russian International Culture Fund said : ‘ If such a policy towards culture continues , I will have to apply for citizenship in a foreign country , because it is not worth living in a country whose government has an attitude to culture like ours . |
| 9 | At least back when I lived in a hole I knew everything there was to know about living in a hole , and now it 's a year later and I 'm at a place so far away I do n't even know how far away it is , watching something I do n't understand go to a place so far up there is no down . |
| 10 | I wondered what Connie Fraser thought about living in a place like that , and whether she was watching me from one of the dozens of balcony windows that faced the front . |
| 11 | BELVILLE : As human life is uncertain I have disposed my affairs so as to secure to you the power of living as a person ought who is my widow . |
| 12 | The first is that the poverty of the farm worker is a thing of the past and that his position has improved considerably since the war-In absolute terms this is obviously true : the farm worker has , along with the rest of the population , steadily raised his standard of living as a result of successive wage increases . |
| 13 | Instead , conditioned by the nature of the family economy inherited from days of lower wage-dependency , they regarded earnings above those necessary for a customary material standard of living as a surplus which could be spent on leisure , festivities and luxuries . |
| 14 | Maternal anxiety is an appropriate response to the experience of living with a crying baby — but what physiological mechanism exists to explain the notion that anxiety causes colic ? |
| 15 | They need to understand the importance of the regular drug treatment , and they need to be supported in their efforts to deal with their own guilt , depression and daily stress of living with a person with schizophrenia . |
| 16 | First , we suggested that the occurrence of disability as a significant event in an individual 's life is only a starting-point for understanding the practical and personal consequences of living with a disability . |
| 17 | As a working detective , it would take six months of living with a mate to trust him and know that when it came to the Crown Court appearance he would know exactly what to say . |
| 18 | The fantasy of living with a woman in a state of openness and trust . |
| 19 | In the light of these observations , the act of living with a prostitute takes on another meaning . |
| 20 | Indeed , it had been rising much faster than the cost of living for a number of years . |
| 21 | Why should I accept even the very small risk of living near a dump site for nuclear waste when I believe that nuclear power is costly , dangerous and unneeded ? |
| 22 | People have become ever more hostile to the idea of living near a rubbish dump . |
| 23 | Perhaps he did n't even realize what the implication of living in a rectory was . |
| 24 | I ca n't see the point of living in a mausoleum , just because it 's ‘ in period ’ . ’ |
| 25 | No doubt after six days of living in a trench , the dirt would have had time to grime itself in . |
| 26 | I was excited about the prospect of leaving this area and the boredom of living in a hole in the ground since 6th June ; at last we shall be able to stretch our legs . |
| 27 | Between ourselves , I sometimes find myself struggling with the reality of living in a Church which patently does not live out the implications of all this . |
| 28 | Think of living in a yacht as living in a caravan , eating out in the evenings . |
| 29 | Who suffer the discomforts of living in a longhouse near the headwaters of the Amazon when versions of what you want to know are available for observation just down the road ? |
| 30 | The prime minister dares — dares — to talk about unorthodox styles of living in a society that actually penalises motherhood , so much so that virtually the only women who 'll take it up are those capable of nothing else ! |