Example sentences of "[vb past] live [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That it 's time you stopped living in the past and started moving into the present . ’ |
| 2 | She later married an Ulsterman and moved to live in the province . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | His brother , Tommy , came to live in the house but he did n't survive very long either . |
| 9 | A young woman called Justine came to live in the house to help my mother with the children . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | SHe 'd lived on the street too long . |
| 13 | She 'd lived in the apartment in the fashionable Latin Quarter for four years , with her wealthy American boyfriend , Richard Knorr . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A successful model she 'd lived in the city for four years . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He and Maureen decided to live for the day and not worry about what the future would bring for them , good or bad . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | After his exploration , Moore decided to live in the dining-room . |
| 20 | Nevertheless he looks mildly concerned when he relates that his son has , to his surprise , decided to live in the city . |
| 21 | The couple had been inseparable since they first went to live at the home . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Her mother divorced Ipuky and went to live in the north of the country with one older son . |
| 24 | After two years of this , Miss D'Armande remembered , Miss Ray suddenly left the theatre and went to live in the country . |
| 25 | The girl 's father could make no further objection , so the two of them were married directly , and went to live in the forest . |
| 26 | They escaped from the toy shop , and went to live in the market building , in the middle of the square . |
| 27 | When I went to live in the attic , Jean-Claude still took it for granted that the wood he needed for the stove should be filched from the railway sidings . |
| 28 | Many of the relatives and friends who rated the homes as an excellent place for the person who died to live towards the end of his or her life made rather perfunctory comments : ‘ I ca n't fault the home ’ ; ‘ It was very nice , no qualms about it . ’ |
| 29 | Brenda liked living in the country for some things , but not for others . |
| 30 | Like all Celtic people they preferred to live in the country . |