Example sentences of "[vb past] live [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That it 's time you stopped living in the past and started moving into the present . ’ |
| 2 | So you 'd made a verbal contract over the phone with a lady who you found living on the premises so you had every right to believe that she owned the furniture . |
| 3 | She later married an Ulsterman and moved to live in the province . |
| 4 | When he and my mother came to live at the house he bought five Aylesbury ducks to swim on the pond and clear it of weed . |
| 5 | And er but erm I think my erm sort of brief contacts with coming and visiting , when I actually came to live on the flats , erm I I knew what to expect and er and erm I was n't I was n't surprised at erm you know , how what the living conditions were like . |
| 6 | In due course , as creatures of many kinds and varying ancestries came to live on the bottom of the seas , the trilobites lost their supremacy . |
| 7 | I am glad he came to live among the villagers , and I think they like him too . ’ |
| 8 | The story recalled in Chapter 2 of a stranger named Chipimbi who came to live amongst the Lamba of Zambia , and brought them seeds of maize , sorghum and groundnuts , was one such hero . |
| 9 | We came to live in the south side of the city , and joined the local parish church which , by coincidence , had been Leslie 's mother 's church ; he himself had not been a member , nor had I attended it . |
| 10 | Then the first ‘ maid ’ they ever had was a girl of 16 called Mollie and she had been deserted by her husband and came to live in the house with three tots . |
| 11 | His brother , Tommy , came to live in the house but he did n't survive very long either . |
| 12 | A young woman called Justine came to live in the house to help my mother with the children . |
| 13 | Other people came to live in the market villages to provide services , like inns and later hotels , doctors and dentists , lawyers and bankers , and many traders and craftsmen making furniture , tools , clothes and leather goods . |
| 14 | A dun-grey monster , very similar in appearance to the fabled LOCH NESS MONSTER , believed to live at the bottom of the thousand-foot deep Loch Morar . |
| 15 | SHe 'd lived on the street too long . |
| 16 | She 'd lived in the apartment in the fashionable Latin Quarter for four years , with her wealthy American boyfriend , Richard Knorr . |
| 17 | In St Erconwald 's church , Athelstan had just finished the Mass for the dead and was now blessing the corpse of Tosspot , an old drunkard who 'd lived in the cellars of the Piebald Horse tavern . |
| 18 | Jim , a lorry driver who 'd lived in the area for forty years , had spent Christmas with friends , but disappeared from view until his body was found in his house . |
| 19 | A successful model she 'd lived in the city for four years . |
| 20 | Mozart wrote music so he could buy himself velvet trousers and Shakespeare got up to write a play every day because he needed to live like the rest of us , ’ he added with the disarming arrogance that had established him as one-third of pop 's most hated team . |
| 21 | He and Maureen decided to live for the day and not worry about what the future would bring for them , good or bad . |
| 22 | He said that after 1983 , Mrs Scott and her daughter decided to live in the kitchen with the dogs — which were never let out of the house — to stop them fighting . |
| 23 | After his exploration , Moore decided to live in the dining-room . |
| 24 | Nevertheless he looks mildly concerned when he relates that his son has , to his surprise , decided to live in the city . |
| 25 | ‘ Domiciled in the United Kingdom ’ meant living in the United Kingdom with the intent to make it a fixed and permanent home . |
| 26 | Some marine algae , no doubt , managed to live on the edges of the seas , rimming the beaches and boulders with green , but they could not have spread far beyond the splash zone , for they would have dried out and died . |
| 27 | She tried it for a week , and then , then went to live with the Americans , and said the food was too fattening . |
| 28 | The couple had been inseparable since they first went to live at the home . |
| 29 | He went to live among the Nuer of the southern Sudan as a vulnerable outsider , relying on their goodwill and friendship to enable him gradually to merge into the background of their everyday lives . |
| 30 | Mead , like Malinowski , went to live among the peoples she was studying , observed their behaviour as a participant in the society , and combined this with some informal interviewing of members of the tribes that she studied closely . |