Example sentences of "live [adv] for the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I lived only for the day when I would come into my own .
2 It was platonic , for Louis was a man who lived only for the cause .
3 He lives only for the moment , and he is already a changed man .
4 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 .
5 By twelve o'clock he had usually earned enough to live on for the day .
6 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 .
7 How she missed that time — those few weeks , which now she would have to live on for the rest of her life .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Say you live just for the Kids
11 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 .
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