Example sentences of "live [prep] a [noun] in " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 I believe that Unesco got the idea when he saw that TV series about some people.who lived for a year in a simulated stone-age Village , cut off from the world .
3 In the famous Middletown studies made by Robert and Helen Lynd the Lynds lived for a time in Muncie , Indiana , but were always known to be researchers .
4 A contemporary of Gundulić was Junije Palmotić ( 1606–57 ) , a Ragusan noble who lived for a time in Bosnia , and who drew upon the Slav folk tales as well as on contemporary Italian and ancient classical traditions for the abundant outpouring of songs , satires , verse epics and dramas which he composed .
5 ‘ We lived for a time in Washington DC , ’ she said slowly .
6 She lives in a hole in the ground .
7 Mary was pensioned off soon after this and now lives in a rage in Malta , where it is feared she is writing her memoirs .
8 ‘ The child who lives in a clearing in the jungle has to move out of the clearing and into the jungle one day , ’ she says .
9 OUR family lives in a cottage in Scarisbrick ( pronounced Scazebrick ) that is more than 100 years old .
10 Cliff — who now lives in a mansion in Surrey — says times were once so hard that his dad made the family furniture from packing cases .
11 It follows that a household will spend more on consumption if it lives in a neighbourhood in which its income is relatively low than if it lives in a neighbourhood in which its income is relatively high .
12 It follows that a household will spend more on consumption if it lives in a neighbourhood in which its income is relatively low than if it lives in a neighbourhood in which its income is relatively high .
13 and he lives in a chateaux in France .
14 She lives on a farm in Wiltshire with her husband and daughter and her exhibition is on until Aug 26 , 1991 .
15 He spent some time actually living as a boarder in houses in the areas that he was studying , and making detailed studies of particular families .
16 Modi , too , tried to join the Foreign Legion , felt it was the ‘ price ’ to pay for living as a foreigner in France , and justified his inconsistency by saying : ‘ I 'm so much a revolutionary that I 'm even willing to be a soldier and revolt against my own anti-militarist beliefs .
17 He spent a week working alongside the farmer , mucking out cattle yards , feeding pigs , dipping sheep ; and living as a guest in his house .
18 It was Tess Durbeyfield , or d'Urberville , rather changed , living as a stranger in her home village .
19 And some say that Jesus himself visited Glastonbury , after his resurrection , living for a while in a house where Glastonbury Abbey now stands .
20 Rachel Still , 23 — who was living with a boyfriend in Wilmslow , Cheshire — drove off with husband Phillip after meeting him for a talk .
21 The fantasy of living with a woman in a state of openness and trust .
22 At a time when Portugal was still living under a dictatorship in which homespun nationalist values were lauded , she was criticised for lavishing large budgets on a series of international music festivals .
23 Living in a cottage in the Cotswolds or anywhere else is n't an occupation .
24 ‘ Ken said something about you living in a squat in London … or something ridiculous like that .
25 When he visited the Russian sculptor Archipenko and his wife , who were living in a villa in Nice , Modi grumbled of the women who bossed him around .
26 He was eating his food , and , I thought to myself , ‘ Christ , how he has changed his appearance after five days living in a hole in the ground ! ’
27 It had been a long time living in a hole in the ground , let's hope things get better .
28 I was excited about the prospect of leaving this area and the boredom of living in a hole in the ground since 6th June ; at last we shall be able to stretch our legs .
29 At the time I was living in a bedsit in Chelsea and was unemployed ; through a mixture of odd jobs and the DHSS I managed to keep myself in beer and cigarettes .
30 He was living in a bedsit in Colwyn Road , Northampton , when he subjected the 11 year old boy to half an hour of terrifying sexual abuse .
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