Example sentences of "we live [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We lived on a farm . |
| 2 | And er we lived at a village called Homewood near Heath there , then we moved back from there He moved back to er Underwood again . |
| 3 | We lived for a year in a cottage attached to a remote farm — so remote that I have never been able to find it again . |
| 4 | ‘ We lived for a time in Washington DC , ’ she said slowly . |
| 5 | The stairs were a formidable obstacle to son Michael , also , since we lived in a bungalow . |
| 6 | If we lived in a society where such specialization had little significance , this difference might not matter However . |
| 7 | ‘ My father was a white-collar dental worker , we lived in a council house sure , but I never knew hunger or deprivation ever ! |
| 8 | I thought we lived in a democracy and valued freedom of choice . |
| 9 | We lived in a maisonette — the top three floors ; and the bottom three floors were offices . |
| 10 | We lived in a house at the end of an eighteenth-century mews , and my son Simon was born in November 1959 , within a few months of our moving to Windsor . |
| 11 | We lived in a period of superstition and dread . |
| 12 | We lived in a town with ten thousand others . |
| 13 | It would , in a paradoxical way , be reassuring if we lived in a world of extremes . |
| 14 | We lived in a flat at Canonmills overlooking the Water of Leith . |
| 15 | In the 1940s we lived alongside a cinema , in a small town lost in the southern pampas of Argentina . |
| 16 | Sometimes it is just a matter of taking a message ; at others ( especially when we lived near a place that gave over-night accommodation to tramps ) it has involved talking — or more often listening — to them . |
| 17 | But we lived near a battery , we lived out at Whale Park And when they they deciding give the Elizabeth was just a baby then and I used to grab Elizabeth and go in the bed and the d down quilt and the pillows on top of us and lie tight and send you until the was in the sitting room and the search light follow the plane was at The plane was that near the house that the searchlight come right into the window , and the next I ken was the bullets ricocheting off the roof . |
| 18 | We live on a lighthouse — it 's our job ! ’ |
| 19 | It 's not the fact we live on a council estate , more likely to have |
| 20 | ‘ No , but we live at a sort of peace with each other , which is good . ’ |
| 21 | WE live at a time when reporters go to foreign countries where there is trouble and come back to write books in which they say that it was hard to make out what was going on . |
| 22 | ‘ Since you are a wizard of sorts , you are of course aware that we live upon a world shaped , as it were , like a disc ? |
| 23 | We live in a litigation minded world and liability at law can be very expensive . |
| 24 | ‘ What matters is we live in a building we love . ’ |
| 25 | I dream that we live in a mare 's field . |
| 26 | The trouble is that we live in a part of the world in which many people depend on Unix — not to fight Microsoft and NT , but to earn their living — and there are too many unknowns . |
| 27 | We live in a day when not only the gift of prophecy but also the ministry of the prophet is being restored to the church . |
| 28 | We live in a century imprinted on the present , which regards the past as little more than the springboard from which we were launched on our way . |
| 29 | ‘ You know [ wrote a French industrialist 's wife to her sons in 1856 ] that we live in a century when men have value only by their own efforts . |
| 30 | Secondly , an individual needs to undergo toilet-training not merely because of the demands of common decency and modern personal hygiene , but , much more importantly , because we live in a culture in which an ability to control sadistic drives is of the first importance , both for the quality of our civilization and for the acquisition and protection of our cultural wealth in general . |