Example sentences of "[pers pn] live in [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 | I live in Kentish Town , you see , and Denis Neilsen , the famous head-boiler of Muswell Hill , worked in our neighbourhood Careers Office . |
| 5 | I live in reckless estrangement from philology — a worse alienation is unimaginable … |
| 6 | Well , I live in sheltered accommodation and , believe me , I have to pay the full licence fee . |
| 7 | I live in constant fear of a disaster . ’ |
| 8 | She lived in miserable anticipation of the day when Camille fell in love with some nightmare youth . |
| 9 | She lives in rented accommodation . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ( 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ We live in great happiness there . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Rather , they lived in practical uncertainty , often felt threatened , and then argued about the justice and permanence of the new order created for them . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They lived in luxurious misery in sub-divisions , like an army encampment ( which subdivision do you come from ? ) |
| 18 | They live in small family groups . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A Bichirs ( family Polypteridaw ) originate from Africa , where they live in shallow flood waters of tropical rivers . |
| 21 | Some of them are capable , if they live in sheltered accommodation or with a family , of looking after themselves . |
| 22 | After a torrid love affair , he lived in abject poverty , telling his story to anyone who would listen for the price of a drink . |
| 23 | He lived in great style with a hundred servants , keeping house ‘ right bounteously ’ — in 1554 his military equipment at Bletchingley alone filled seventeen wagons . |
| 24 | As Burton loved to live in opposition — it made him feel most alive and it could be argued that he lived in serious opposition to his own body for long stretches of his life — it is interesting to speculate whether the homosexual network gave yet another spin to his heterosexuality . |
| 25 | He relates a lasting erotic liaison with a certain Mary Parish , an astrologer , cunning woman , and medium , with whom he lived in Long Acre , and by whom he claimed to have had progeny numbering 106 . |
| 26 | He lived in considerable squalor and acrimony in a small Putney flat with his ‘ three bitches ’ : Queenie , his ageing Aunt Bunny , and his emotionally unstable sister , Nancy . |
| 27 | But at Allen Street , where he lived in considerable poverty , he insisted on his independence , cooked all his meals on a gas ring in his room and refused to accept any hospitality from Minton . |
| 28 | He lived in evident poverty , lodging with a cobbler called Morgan , and when his grandchildren came on Sundays to visit ; |
| 29 | The poor astronaut who falls into a black hole will still come to a sticky end ; only if he lived in imaginary time would he encounter no singularities . |
| 30 | On 20 January 1744 he reached Paris , and moved on to Gravelines near Dunkirk , where he lived in strict privacy under the name of the Chevalier Douglas . |