Example sentences of "live [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They lived frugally off a diet of porridge and lentils and beans and yogurt ; they drank a little beer , making it spin out ; they shared book-buying ; they were both entirely confined to their grants , which did not go far in London , and could not be supplemented with holiday earnings , for these had vanished with the oil crisis . |
| 32 | She told him that the Minotaur lived deep inside a labyrinth , an underground maze . |
| 33 | You only lived here for a couple of years . ’ |
| 34 | William Barnes , a distant Stanhope cousin , lived here for a time , but for most of its life it has been a farmhouse , which it remains . |
| 35 | Franz Kafka lived here for a time . |
| 36 | In time to come , will someone else walk these halls and remember the Wolfqueen who lived here for a time , but who brought the Cruithin out of hiding , and drove Medoc from the Bright Palace ? |
| 37 | Simon lived here as a result of a chance meeting with Mick Leary in a pub . |
| 38 | These people , I remarked , could pull out of their pockets , thoughtlessly , as much money for a round of drinks as most single parents have to live on for a week ; could pay as much for a few hours ’ sleep as a Third World peasant and his family have to live , or die , on for a year . |
| 39 | Tove Jansson 's inhabitants of Moomin Valley ( 1961 , p. 115 ) learn to live together in an atmosphere of Scandinavian hospitality : |
| 40 | For the first six months they have to live in at a training centre . |
| 41 | If you physically vacate your home and let it for profit — perhaps because you have decided to live permanently with a friend — under tax law , the property would be treated as an investment and subject to certain exemptions would be assessed for CGT when it was sold . |
| 42 | Only in the Norman and the crusading states , colonized in great measure from the homeland of French feudalism , did one find any attempt to live up to a conception of feudalism as coherent as that of northern France . |
| 43 | And because she happens to live reasonably near a park , she walks Sandy or Sandy walks her in the park , she meets other dog walkers and they are her human contacts . |
| 44 | Marie 's parents had strong religious views that made her feel very guilty about having sex in their home when she and her husband had to live there for a while : " We did it on the bedroom floor on the wedding night because I would n't use the bed , in case it made a noise . |
| 45 | Now , though , having to live again in a world where ideals were something to be discussed by intellectuals and certain priests , but never applied , as they would have got in the way of Horemheb 's programme of reform , Huy found his feelings dulled . |
| 46 | James would probably have been content to live quietly for a time but both Mary and Louis were insistent on immediate action and his chief remaining ally in the British Isles , Richard Talbot , Earl of Tyrconnel , Lord Deputy and Commander-in-Chief in Ireland , wrote urging him not to settle into comfortable inactivity in France when Ireland offered a kingdom of his own ‘ plentiful in all things for human life ’ . |
| 47 | I lived there as a boy and know the coal |
| 48 | She abandoned the half-formed thought as he went on , ‘ I was educated in England , and lived there for a number of years . |
| 49 | Grandmother lived there in a house that looked over the water , but she 's dead now . ’ |
| 50 | The name will live on as a department head . |
| 51 | The reminders of the V-Force will live on for a while yet until the Victors are retired so perhaps we will see more of this not unimpressive aircraft in 1993 . |
| 52 | Why did Holmes live secretly in a hut on the moor ? |
| 53 | As couples live together over a period of years they will find more and more areas where decisions can be made without consultation because they will understand a lot of each other 's interests and desires . |
| 54 | Seeking through German unity to contribute to the unification of Europe and to the building of a peaceful European order in which borders no longer divide and which ensures that all European nations can live together in a spirit of mutual trust , |
| 55 | A further 44 per cent of all elderly people live only with a spouse and , as we saw in the last chapter , only about 14 per cent are living with others- ‘ non-spouses ’ . |
| 56 | ‘ A duke can live comfortably in a castle , after all ’ , the architect Cedric Price is quoted as saying . |
| 57 | There are lucky people who have jobs which can continue long past retirement age ; they will live longer as a result . |
| 58 | Gender difference indicates that people will be admitted to care at a point when for older women they are likely to be frail and dependent , whereas men are admitted earlier when they are fitter , and may live longer in a home , settling more comfortably ( Willcocks , 1986 , p. 151 ) . |
| 59 | FOR men who live out of a suitcase , Tuesday night must represent mid-week crisis . |
| 60 | We live today in an age where the dark plague of liberal decadence casts its shadow everywhere and all about us , from the school gates to the political system . |