Example sentences of "and live [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although few people still retained the Great War view that German soldiers wore dead babies on their helmet spikes and lived on human flesh , there was little doubt in many minds that the Fuhrer was related to the devil . |
| 2 | Fifteen thousand men , women and children where ruthlessly evicted from their homes and Patrick Seller was well rewarded for his evil work : by 1819 , he rented no less than 75,000 acres of cleared land , and lived in grand style in a fine house at Syre — ruling dispossessed Clan Mackay with an iron , heartless hand . |
| 3 | Boswell does not say which of them raised the question of biography , and somewhat out of context he leads into a comment from Johnson : ‘ Nobody can write the life of a man , but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him . ’ |
| 4 | Anyway , she got her way , and lived in fine style for a couple of weeks that heady summer of love and peace , etcetera . |
| 5 | They fled to Dublin or England or came out in very small numbers and lived in closeted fearfulness of exposure , job loss and increasing isolation . |
| 6 | Remote from universal nature , and living by complicated artifice , man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion . |
| 7 | Julian Le Bas Landscapes Bede Gallery , Springwell Park , Jarrow , until March 20 I AM delighted to discover that Newcastle Polytechnic 's long-time art historian Alf Corlett is alive and well and living in well-earned retirement in East Sussex , where he has been on the look-out as a talent spotter for the Bede Gallery . |
| 8 | It is impossible , in many ways , for somebody who is erm on benefit and living in independent accommodation with a private landlord often it 's impossible for them to get a job and then cover their rent , so they ca n't get a job . |
| 9 | Platform shoes from the Thirties and Forties — now in bright shiny colours or mock reptile skin — left us tottering , swaying and living in permanent fear of a sprained ankle . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , the sort of jobs offered are really suitable only for those who can accept moving across the country and living in single person staff quarters for a prolonged period . |
| 11 | Like — when I started my period she said , ‘ Congratulations , now you 're a woman ’ , but then it was all this hassle about hiding your sanitary towels and tampons from boys , and living in mortal fear that they would fall out of your bag and boys would know it was your period . |
| 12 | Lone fathers tend to be older than lone mothers ; there are more West Indian and less Asian families headed by a lone parent ; they are more likely to have lower incomes and to live in local authority housing than two-parent families . |
| 13 | But though his mind was , and remained , romantically anti-Establishment , at once Catholic and mildly left-wing , his fiction never seemed impelled by any serious desire to alter the social system of a nation from which , after the war , he was willingly an exile , and his arguments concern rather the writer 's alleged duty to refuse all favours from the state — even ‘ the bourgeois state ’ , as he calls it — and to live in romantic independence , royalties apart : surviving ( in Joyce 's famous phrase ) by silence and cunning . |
| 14 | Despite the implementation of a Factory Act in 1916 and growing agitation in the early 1920s , many urban workers continued to work long hours for meagre wages in unhealthy and dangerous environments , and live on inadequate nourishment in slum conditions . |
| 15 | ‘ Very nice to be an unmarried mother and live on social security . |
| 16 | He wanted to feel the bones of the world beneath his feet , join natro groups , travel , love and live in complete freedom . |