Example sentences of "he live [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lived at nearby Whaddon Hall , also built in his beloved Gothic style . |
| 2 | After a torrid love affair , he lived in abject poverty , telling his story to anyone who would listen for the price of a drink . |
| 3 | He lived in great style with a hundred servants , keeping house ‘ right bounteously ’ — in 1554 his military equipment at Bletchingley alone filled seventeen wagons . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He lived in evident poverty , lodging with a cobbler called Morgan , and when his grandchildren came on Sundays to visit ; |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | His concern for the souls of the rich was equalled only by his fear of the impatience of the poor ; he lived in daily fear of revolution . |
| 12 | He was possessed of a calm , reasoned courage in the face of a real danger , but he lived in constant fear of dangers which existed in his brain only " . |
| 13 | He lives in splendid isolation and dreams great dreams . ’ |
| 14 | Alec says he lives in constant fear of the IRA , a danger he claims the MoD refuses to recognise . |
| 15 | Aragorn can run 135 miles in three days ; he lives in full vigour for 210 years , dying on his birthday . |