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

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1 But the car lived on as a classic .
2 She lived in as a bride .
3 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 .
4 Immortalized by the soldiery in the war of 1914–18 , Fred Karno 's Army lives on as a descriptor of chaotic organization .
5 ELSIE TANNER , Coronation Street 's tart with a heart , may be dead , but her memory lives on in a Derbyshire pub .
6 Living up to a burden of expectation is never easy .
7 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 .
8 Yet , as he has been living out of a suitcase now for 20 years , he can be forgiven for feeling battle weary .
9 ‘ We were living out of a hat dramatising dirty jokes .
10 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 .
11 By now , however , in the twilight of their existence on Earth , problems of climate were becoming more important , having finally a crucial bearing on whether they would continue to live on as a species , or succumb .
12 For the first six months they have to live in at a training centre .
13 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 .
14 The name will live on as a department head .
15 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 .
16 FOR men who live out of a suitcase , Tuesday night must represent mid-week crisis .
17 But her deep tanned face had been lived in for a fistful of decades .
18 The house was n't run-down , either , but there were touches here and there betraying the fact 64 that it had n't been lived in for a couple of years ; the windows that were n't shuttered were n't clean , and there were weeds pushing up through the gravel .
19 The figures actually which I got from the director yesterday are that the department is counting four hundred and ten vacancies of those four hundred and ten , two hundred and thirty four are out of commission , they 're in homes being refurbished seventy two are in blocked places , that is double rooms being lived in by a widow or widower where er they 'd previously shared it with the spouse or er disability reasons , health reasons , behaviour reasons of a resident er in a previously shared room .
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