Example sentences of "living [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was actually living through the kind of situation fantasies were made of — stranded in the snow with one of the world 's great sex symbols — and all she could do was argue with him . |
| 2 | A string of distinguished television current-affairs programmes are dismissed as being soft on criminals and terrorists ; TV programme-makers turn out to be pretentious , corrupt , cynical and generally ‘ nauseating … these saintly people , living off the fat of the land , try to kid you that they are guardians of the common weal ! ’ |
| 3 | He 'd never had a good word to say for them before , a bunch o' thieving magpies , he always said , living off the fat of the land while he had to pay taxes to keep 'em . |
| 4 | Nothing is sacred ; when the Princess of Wales bought a Mercedes in February he accused the Royals of ‘ showing contempt for British workers while living off the fat of the land ’ . |
| 5 | You know as well as I do that the Wharfmasters are living off the fat of the land on their company profits , but how are the dockers expected to support their wives and kids on seventy-two shillings and sixpence a week ? ’ |
| 6 | Living off the proceeds of that bestseller you wrote , Kruger : The Computer That Failed ? ’ |
| 7 | Lorry driver Terrence Duncan , 37 , of Bristol , denies living off the earnings of prostitution . |
| 8 | As will be seen in Chapter four , those who , like Frederick Shaw , try to by-pass the law by publishing a directory or ‘ contact magazine ’ , could be guilty of publishing an obscene article , living off the earnings of prostitution , and conspiring to corrupt public morals . |
| 9 | The ownership of massage parlours and saunas is also no protection against charges of , for example , living off the earnings of prostitution . |
| 10 | He said this would be paid for by ‘ speculators and those who have been living off the state like cannibals ’ . |
| 11 | Nine out of ten of the 2/2 Independent Company were from the dry country districts of Western Australia , used to living in the bush , butchering their own meat , and improvising motor repairs — skills they found essential in living off the country in Timor and during their first year or so as an Independent Company stationed 250 miles ( 400km ) south of Darwin in the little town of Katherine with its corrugated buildings , its one hotel and two stores . |
| 12 | In September 1979 the Screamers , a female-dominated community living off the coast of Donegal , became aware of the nature of the prospecting going on in Donegal : IBM had claimed that month that it had encountered ‘ encouraging evidence of uranium ’ in Donegal . |
| 13 | Section 1 of the 1976 Act was thereby amended to include as dependants spouses and former spouses of the deceased , any person who ( i ) was living with the deceased in the same household immediately before the date of the death ; and ( ii ) had been living with the deceased in the same household for at least two years before that date ; and ( iii ) was living during the whole of that period as the husband or wife of the deceased , any parent or other ascendant or child or other descendant of the deceased , any person who was treated by the deceased as his parent , and any person ( not being a child of the deceased ) who was treated by the deceased as a " child of the family " in relation to any marriage of the deceased , and any person who is or was the issue of a brother , sister , uncle or aunt of the deceased . |
| 14 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that many bed-and-breakfast families are living below the level of subsistence and that parents go without so that children can eat ? |
| 15 | Residents living near the scene of the incident said they were aware something had happened , but did n't know what . |
| 16 | From living near the edge of a hot , steamy jungle in Army married quarters and coming back to England to live in a little house in Catterick Camp with snow everywhere , myself and my son , who was eight years old at the time , were sitting eating porridge feeling miserable and cold waiting for a plumber to come and mend a burst pipe . |
| 17 | ( Having had to admit that , despite living near the epicentre of circle activity , I had n't seen one of them , I was keeping quiet . ) |
| 18 | People living near the mosque at the junction of Princes Road and Bow Street say they have been kept in the dark about the reasons for recent building work . |
| 19 | People living near the site of a new age festival held over the weekend say that all their worst fears about the event came true . |
| 20 | However , when that happened there were protests from people living near the line in parts of East Cleveland . |
| 21 | Since the summer of last year we have been living with the consequences of Mrs Thatcher 's unreasoned dislike of the ERM . |
| 22 | We are now living with the law of the jungle . |
| 23 | ‘ He 's been living with the Earl of Kinmuire in Kentucky . ’ |
| 24 | She had been living with the Wilsons for nearly three months . |
| 25 | Living with the family in Richmond is bewildering , and although I would never admit it I feel as though I have made a big mistake . |
| 26 | To be defeated , honourably , by the multiplicity of the unpredictable , instead of living with the power of her knowingness ? |
| 27 | She and Alex were children again , the whole family living with the Copleys at the Old Rectory . |
| 28 | Working-class Protestants had some material advantages over their Catholic competitors and enjoyed preferential treatment in housing and local government employment but these advantages were sometimes marginal and were not often felt to be considerable advantages because the Protestants did not sit down to statistical comparisons of their standards of living with the opportunities of Catholics . |
| 29 | He has , however , paid a very high price for living with the politics of localism . |
| 30 | If we can associate certain patterns of family living with the process of industrialization then what were these particular patterns , and were they caused by industrialization or a necessary pre-condition for it ? |