Example sentences of "living with a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wake up like it , I go to bed like it , I 've got it all the time that I 'm living with a bloody nightmare , all the time . |
| 2 | The fact was that for many years she and her father had been living with a dangerous illusion ; and the illusion was that they were entirely virtuous in their endeavours , entirely on the angels ' side . |
| 3 | Many young people take living with a current girl or boyfriend for granted . |
| 4 | The hospital authorities had tracked her down in California , where she was enjoying success as a fabric designer and living with a famous composer of film music . |
| 5 | She is living with a friendly family that she knows . |
| 6 | If we look at the evidence of Roberts 's study of Lancashire households between 1890 and 1940 , we see that the various categories of kin who co-resided included : unmarried daughters living with parents ; unmarried brothers and sisters living with a married sibling ; orphaned children ; children whose parents were still alive , but who had gone to live with relatives because of parental poverty or lack of space in the parental household ( Roberts , 1984 , pp. 72–7 ) . |
| 7 | What it means in practice is that just as a wife has no entitlement to supplementary benefit ( SB ) in her own right — her husband must claim for her as his ‘ dependant ’ — so a single woman living with a male lover may be denied SB and required to look to him for support . |
| 8 | It was ludicrous : a customs officer living with a contraband child , spending half the day in a posture of specious confidence with one foot up on his inspection counter while he intimidated law-abiding passengers , and the other half knowing furtiveness and joy in smuggling around a small boy who was his own and licit son . |
| 9 | The National Child Development Study of 17 000 children born in 1958 found only just over 5 per cent of 16-year-olds living with a natural parent and an adoptive step-parent or parent 's cohabitee ( Ferri , 1984 ) ; the Family Formation Survey in 1976 found 7 per cent of all children under 16 ( 928 000 ) were living with a step-parent ( Dunnell , 1979 ) . |
| 10 | Also , you may have questions about testing , living with a positive diagnosis , or other issues to do with HIV and AIDS . |