Example sentences of "[pers pn] live [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That I lived here for many years as a child , that — " |
| 2 | ‘ I lived here for three years , if you want to be precise . ’ |
| 3 | My lover and I lived together for eight years and then when we got rid of the greengrocer 's shop , he ‘ went back to mother ’ . |
| 4 | I lived there for eighteen months with someone I thought I loved , indeed who I did , do , no , did love . ’ |
| 5 | She could receive more if she lives well into old age . |
| 6 | She lives there with four of her seven children who remain alive , and her tiny grandson . |
| 7 | She lives now in converted weaving cottages in Kilbarchan , a walled garden already rich in spring colours . |
| 8 | How hard would it be for you to live entirely without each of the following basic ingredients in their various forms for just three weeks ? ( choose one answer . ) |
| 9 | ‘ I agree , yet somehow I find it difficult to accept that you live entirely by that principle . ’ |
| 10 | We found a neat village south of Peterlee called Elwick , complete with tree-decked , green , Tabatha Twitchet shop and two super pubs , where we lived uneasily for three years . |
| 11 | Shortly afterwards we moved to , and we lived there for many years . |
| 12 | We lived there for another four years , until it became too difficult for me to manage the stairs . |
| 13 | it was like Jersey , we lived there for twenty , twenty years did n't we ? |
| 14 | We lived there until 1960 … |
| 15 | I want them to live together in some ordinary kind of house so that I can come and say , how can you expect me to live here ! |
| 16 | They lived together for four years , and then two years ago they broke up . |
| 17 | Happily they lived together for several weeks , until Killigrew told his young bride that duty called him to town . |
| 18 | ‘ They lived together in Red Hall and then he went his way and she went hers . |
| 19 | They lived mainly in fine houses not far from his factories . |
| 20 | One day they lived entirely on bread-and-butter and tea , but the next morning Breeze received an unexpected half-crown from the sour old witch , Miss Martindale , who could n't cope with her spring-cleaning single-handed . |
| 21 | So they lived happily for many years . |
| 22 | They live only in warm parts of the world , the bulk of them in the tropics . |
| 23 | I do n't think he lived long round these parts , when , when he came to leave Orington , . |
| 24 | He lived quietly in half his old house , he sometimes went to visit friends in other parts of the country , and occasionally to London , where he stayed in the Dorchester Hotel and was asked to luncheon by Churchill , whose venom was reserved for the index of his book . |
| 25 | He lives here on that hill behind the village . |
| 26 | ‘ Anyhow , he lives somewhere in darkest Essex , so lord knows what time I 'd get to my bed — even supposing he can remember where he lives . |