Example sentences of "[pers pn] live [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes he hit me , sometimes he just threatened me , and I lived in terrible fear of him . |
| 2 | I bought him different clothes , and had his hair cut , but to me he looked just the same , and I lived in constant fear that he would be recognized by someone who had known him in the past . |
| 3 | Storm Jameson , a woman novelist active in the peace movement , later recalled : ‘ For some years after 1933 I lived in equivocal amity with pacifists and combative supporters of the League of Nations , adjusting my feelings , in good and bad faith , to the person I happened to be with . |
| 4 | Yet I am so little and I live behind hard iron bars , eating synthoats … ’ |
| 5 | I live in Kentish Town , you see , and Denis Neilsen , the famous head-boiler of Muswell Hill , worked in our neighbourhood Careers Office . |
| 6 | I live in reckless estrangement from philology — a worse alienation is unimaginable … |
| 7 | Well , I live in sheltered accommodation and , believe me , I have to pay the full licence fee . |
| 8 | I live in constant fear of a disaster . ’ |
| 9 | She lived in miserable anticipation of the day when Camille fell in love with some nightmare youth . |
| 10 | She lives in rented accommodation . |
| 11 | The spartan nature of camping requires that you live on dehydrated food , and since at the time of going to print no manufacturer has come up with dehydrated beer , enforced sobriety will be a big feature of your expedition . |
| 12 | If you live outside reasonable travelling distance of the campus , you will have been sent details concerning accommodation at the time of confirmation of your place at the University . |
| 13 | ‘ But how , ’ she cries , Mow can you live without human society ? ’ ( literally , ‘ without a human being ’ ) . |
| 14 | But I remember only too well the time when we had nothing in the bank and we lived in rented property because we 'd sold our home to keep me racing . |
| 15 | The war was an anxious time , for the daily newspapers were filled with the lists of men killed in the battles in France , and we lived in daily dread of the routine telegram from the War Office . |
| 16 | ( Martin et al , 1987 ) It also confirmed what we already knew — that no amount of keep-fit exercises and high fibre would improve our health as long as we lived in damp housing conditions and a polluting environment . |
| 17 | we live above front room like ? |
| 18 | ‘ We live in great happiness there . |
| 19 | We live in little beach chalets and look out all day on the Mediterranean ; its blueness always surprises me , though I 've seen it so often . |
| 20 | The whole crew landed safely at Aberdeen at the end of August 1882 , having survived the winter because lack of provisions led them to live on fresh meat , thus avoiding scurvy , and because of Smith 's quiet leadership . |
| 21 | They expected me to live on supplementary benefit so I was having to work the street , trying to get my house together . |
| 22 | Liese and Leonard had a wonderful wedding ; now they lived with central heating and embroidered sheets . |
| 23 | Brother and sister were not therefore reunited until later in that year when they lived at Windy Brow , Keswick — ‘ We find our own food . |
| 24 | Rather , they lived in practical uncertainty , often felt threatened , and then argued about the justice and permanence of the new order created for them . |
| 25 | They were foreigners ; they lived in squalid housing ; they cooked and washed for themselves ; they were mostly unmarried ; they were poor ; they were disgruntled at their posting ; they were desperately bored mercenaries of the intellect . |
| 26 | They lived in luxurious misery in sub-divisions , like an army encampment ( which subdivision do you come from ? ) |
| 27 | Now she 's unemployed and her husband has tuberculosis and they live on supplementary benefit with their two children . |
| 28 | They live in small family groups . |
| 29 | They live in perpetual hope of persuading some head of chambers to take them in when a vacancy occurs ; meanwhile , to confer with a client they can only occupy someone else 's desk , by his good grace , when he is not using it . |
| 30 | A Bichirs ( family Polypteridaw ) originate from Africa , where they live in shallow flood waters of tropical rivers . |