Example sentences of "live [adv] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We lived together for a while . ’ |
| 2 | I lived only for the day when I would come into my own . |
| 3 | It was platonic , for Louis was a man who lived only for the cause . |
| 4 | He lives only for the moment , and he is already a changed man . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Larry and Tina have been living together for a year . |
| 8 | Reveille for the remainder was at 0600 , as the transit camp we had been living in for the fortnight had to be handed over to the next inhabitants spick and span . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | You only lived here for a couple of years . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Franz Kafka lived here for a time . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | By twelve o'clock he had usually earned enough to live on for the day . |
| 16 | Usually , a band or artist will have only a short working life in which to earn sufficient money to live on for the rest of their lives . |
| 17 | How she missed that time — those few weeks , which now she would have to live on for the rest of her life . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Her years in London bad merely strengthened her desire to live there for the rest of her life , and while she was there her mother seemed , most of the time , to be no more that a dreadful past sorrow , endured and survived . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | She abandoned the half-formed thought as he went on , ‘ I was educated in England , and lived there for a number of years . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Demographic circumstances around that time tend to have substantial effects on the type and quality of housing which many people will live in for the rest of their lifetimes . |
| 24 | Say you live just for the Kids |
| 25 | The holder of this visiting professorship could then live here for a year and deliver one or two open lectures at which the entire university might once again have the experience of being assembled in congregation . |
| 26 | My mum and aunt are always saying to me , a white girl will first of all be engaged , then marry , then live in her mum 's house for a little while until they can afford the mortgage on their place , then buy a house , live there for a couple of years , then they 'll have the baby . |
| 27 | This small purple mascot — called Sprite — has lived in the wheelhouse of FAB 3 from the very beginning and will live aboard for the rest of the boat 's life . |
| 28 | Noguchi tried in vain to construct an earthwork sculpture at a Japanese-American internment camp where he lived voluntarily for a time during World War II . |
| 29 | ‘ The woman involved was a married woman with a family and she and Philip had lived together for a couple of months but she decided to go back to her husband in September . ’ |
| 30 | But her deep tanned face had been lived in for a fistful of decades . |