Example sentences of "and live in [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Ackroyd enjoyed a quiet bachelor life and lived in a small house by the crossing .
2 Eileen remembers Selina as a bubbly girl who helped to scrub the floors of the tourist office , made her own clothes and lived in a small cottage .
3 When I was a pine and lived in a cold climate
4 For a century , the typical UK employee was male , engaged in manual factory work , and lived in a large industrial city or town — with many implications for leisure and health patterns .
5 Funny because he was forty and not very clever and lived in an English suburb called Wimbledon .
6 He had no financial reserves , and lived in an unfashionable part of London .
7 David Norman used his words more precisely when he said they were ectothermic reptiles which were able to keep their bodies at a constant temperature ‘ by being very large and living in a warm , mild climate . ’
8 Only a quarter of children with a good relationship and living in a discordant home showed a conduct disorder in a study reported by Rutter ( 1979a ) , compared to three-quarters of those lacking such a relationship .
9 It 's like we 're sort of living here together — you know , sort of like we 're married or summat and living in a proper house of our own and all that .
10 Despite the poor conditions in many towns , Margaret Loane , a health visitor , felt that the family of the pre-World War I urban labourer , earning 20/ a week and renting a small house or half a house , was better off than that of his rural counterpart , earning 13/ a week and living in a free , but often damp and usually overcrowded cottage .
11 By living in a private house the student can be independent while having the opportunity to meet British people and to live in a British environment .
12 People like Dad did n't struggle to make money and to live in a smart district of Leeds , in order to have a daughter living a dangerous , flashy , immoral life .
13 We can add to our knowledge of the European from 1880 onwards the fact that he is more and more likely to be a city-dweller , and to live in an industrial city .
14 Whatever happened to Shurll , Jane wondered — did she go and live in a hollow tree ?
15 I knew that they would be criticized by the Fontanellatesi for allowing me to go away and live in a distant city among thousands of Allied soldiers .
16 This ensures that students and staff are well looked after at all times , and staff are well looked after at all times , and they can continue to work and live in an attractive and secure environment .
17 Elephants , on the other hand , kick out the fellas as soon as they 've done the necessaries , kick out the boy children as soon as they 've started to shave , and live in a contented matriarchal world afraid of no man but the ivory poacher .
18 Of course it is one thing to state baldly that modern Christians are often ineffectual in their witness and live in a privatised world , cut off from the mainstream of social life , but it is quite another thing to make out a case that it is so .
19 ‘ THE one thing I will never do is change my appearance and live in a blond wig in another country ’ — Author-in-hiding Salman Rushdie .
20 With Anne , to think was to act and when her father appeared a few minutes later she said immediately , ‘ Dad , Maureen has a friend who 's had to give up his house and live in a crummy room .
21 I was not from a religious background , and I had previously thought that anyone who went to the mikva had to wear ghastly old-fashioned dresses with thick tights and live in a Yiddish-speaking ghetto !
22 One guy had already arranged to sell his house and go and live in the Caribbean in 1998 because , as he said , ‘ You might as well have a decent last couple of years . ’
23 But even those of us who have never been anorexic and live in the affluent Western world must know , perhaps through some isolated experience of our own or others ' , that non-eating leads to fatigue and thence to depression .
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