Example sentences of "live [adv prt] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The average Jew was the average Englishman , living off a weekly pay packet of four pounds a week or less at a time when , in the worst-hit areas for unemployment , up to twenty per cent of the population was below the poverty line . |
| 2 | Almost every woman I 've known had to live off a perpetual menu of rabbit 's food . |
| 3 | Not only do Christians have the necessary basis for such a concept , but we know that we are commanded to live out a standard unselfishness , far surpassing a mere social grace . |
| 4 | ‘ A hero who sought to live out a mythological quest to find himself . |
| 5 | This argument was persuasively propounded by the director of the Hastings Center for Medical Ethics , who concluded that ‘ … after a person has lived out a natural life span [ eg , into the late 70s or early 80s ] , medical care should no longer be oriented to resisting death … [ but ] will be limited to the relief of suffering ’ . |