Example sentences of "live [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For almost exactly nine years , from the late summer of 1980 to the late summer of 1989 , Poland lived through a political crisis . |
| 2 | Scott inherited the family estate in 1596 , but from 1612 until towards the end of his life he lived for a good part of the year in Canterbury . |
| 3 | In 1902 he lived for a short period in Clerkenwell , east London . |
| 4 | A singer of poignant songs , Rikoran was born near Mukden in Manchuria in 1920 of Japanese parents , but lived as a young girl with a Chinese family . |
| 5 | She was probably not born into the wild , but she lived as a feral dog . |
| 6 | In the country you lived as a social being and at the valuation of others . |
| 7 | He had married Jemima Mott in 1816 but lived as a childless widower from 1829 after the death of his wife . |
| 8 | A TOTALLY PSYCHEDELIC GUY , aged 16 , who lives for a good time is out to see if there are any zany females into Pink Floyd , Cult and The Who . |
| 9 | IT 'S THE nightmare that everyone who lives near a big airport dreads . |
| 10 | It frequently happens that a daughter lives with a widowed parent for 20 years or more ; if the parent changes council houses or moves from the private sector to a council house within one year of the death of the parent then on the death of the parent the council house will be the home which contains all the furniture and other articles which form part of the home and have been fitted into the council house by the parent and the daughter . |
| 11 | So he lives with a lurking fear of exposure as a fraud . |
| 12 | Mary Leapor also knows that she lives in a dirty world . |
| 13 | Moore is also the man who holds fixedly to the belief that it is solely because he lives in a Labour borough that his pavements have broken and cracked paving-stones . |
| 14 | Paul lives in a tiny bungalow , and had kept marine fish in a four foot tank for several years . |
| 15 | Like the series it supersedes , the L range lives in a slimline casing . |
| 16 | Unlike her sisters , Kimberly lives in a rural cottage twenty miles outside of the city . |
| 17 | He lives in a tied cottage owned by them . |
| 18 | She lives in a remote village , ten kilometres from a paved road . |
| 19 | But 29-year-old Davey , who now lives in a lavish Florida mansion a long way from the two-up two-down terraced house he was brought up in , has no guarantees of success . |
| 20 | She felt nothing for me ; she has already forgotten me ; she lives in a drowsy round of smoking , going to the baths , painting her eyelids and drinking coffee . |
| 21 | What , after all , can be said to a child about a man who lives in a mental hospital ? |
| 22 | She lives in a terraced house in Lancashire with her mum and dad and her cat , Arthur . |
| 23 | She lives in a Victorian cottage in south London with her husband Roger and their baby daughter Hannah . |
| 24 | Kim Hartman , the actress who plays the truly Aryan Helga in the BBC comedy series 'Allo ‘ Allo , lives in a small Cotswold village and drives a Polo Boulevard , a special edition of VW 's small car , which is equipped with a 1.3-litre engine . |
| 25 | ‘ She lives in a small alleyway just past The Magpie and Crown off Watling Street . ’ |
| 26 | MRS X , a housewife who lives in a small village in the South-East , became a victim of Brighton-based knockers less than a fortnight after the death of her husband , who was a keen collector of china , silver and oil paintings . |
| 27 | Now she lives in a small flat in Ladbroke Grove , with a young woman she says is her niece . |
| 28 | Finn lives in a small place in America , and having been poor , still lives in the same way . |
| 29 | One species , which lives in a small area round the Suez , certainly does ripen its eggs at full moon , and a sea urchin off California has a similar lunar cycle , so there may be some substance to the fishermen 's claim . |
| 30 | One man has a house with twelve rooms : another lives in a cardboard box . |