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

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1 But the car lived on as a classic .
2 She lived in as a bride .
3 We lived together for a while . ’
4 The men lived together in a compound or — to use their term — a cage .
5 It lives on as a reality which the poet seeks to ‘ revive within ’ him , to reconstruct the state of mind of the removed passion of the last four lines and the effortless delight of the first two stanzas .
6 Immortalized by the soldiery in the war of 1914–18 , Fred Karno 's Army lives on as a descriptor of chaotic organization .
7 and she lives like in a warden controlled place the same as your gran and granddad
8 His father , a small farmer , lives simply within a set of economic relations which are , at least in theory , secure .
9 He hitch-hikes to San Francisco , lives briefly in a commune , and then sets off on a journey with two of its members , Lockett and Meridith .
10 They lived comfortably in a house built in King Edward 's reign .
11 Living only for a couple of microseconds on average , the muon can not go from atom to atom catalysing fusion and liberating energy indefinitely ; the dream of the ages is n't so easily fulfilled .
12 If a woman and a man are living together as a couple , the woman can be charged her partner 's Poll Tax if he does not pay , and the man can be charged the woman 's Poll Tax if she does not pay .
13 If you are married or living together as a couple , you should only make one joint claim ( any other members of your household should make a separate claim ) .
14 Pete and Ellie , members of the commune now living together as a couple .
15 But yesterday Teesside Crown Court was told that the pair were now living together as a family with their daughter .
16 Pamela and he had been living together for a while and , until recently , Jimmy had been close to a happiness previously denied him ; both as lover and as surrogate father .
17 Larry and Tina have been living together for a year .
18 There is even a physical basis to the collectivity of women : it has been shown that women living together over a length of time frequently fall into a synchronicity of menstrual cycles .
19 The action project began on 1 April 1984 and any people aged 65 or over who were referred to the hospital psychogeriatric service during the 12 months to the end of March 1985 and who were diagnosed as suffering from dementia , became members of the action sample if they lived in the action area , and of the control sample if their home was in the control area ( so long as they were not living permanently in an institution at the time of referral and they or their carers gave consent for their inclusion ) .
20 Everywhere there were reminders of Buddhism : on almost every hill there would be a small pagoda , its graceful , tapering spire coloured white or occasionally gilded with gold leaf ; in every village there would be a monastery , usually with several monks , though sometimes with a single bhikkhu living more as a hermit .
21 Living up to a burden of expectation is never easy .
22 I confess I should hardly venture to hope that more than two millions of skilled workers , representing a population of five millions , are living habitually in a state of ease and comparative security of the modest sort …
23 Living out of a suitcase away from home and family has become one of the main causes of stress among businessmen , concluded a survey by the Confederation of British Industry .
24 Yet , as he has been living out of a suitcase now for 20 years , he can be forgiven for feeling battle weary .
25 ‘ We were living out of a hat dramatising dirty jokes .
26 One with all the attributes of a jet-setter , considering the sort of life he must have led before the accident that had put him out of motor racing , yet he seemed to be living here like a monk .
27 Incitement to murder , by people living nominally under a country 's law , should automatically lead to arrest .
28 Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age .
29 She certainly did n't like to say that he was living there with a girl .
30 We were living quite near a saddler 's shop in Debenham , and I was always interested in it .
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