Example sentences of "lived with a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of them lived with a nervous expectation that it could happen to them . |
| 2 | Brian lived with a primitive terror of outer darkness which he rationalized as a fear of failure : this he further refined into a disinclination to live out of London . |
| 3 | Of those living with one natural parent in 1985 , some 10% lived with a lone mother . |
| 4 | This figure declined slightly for older children , a growing proportion of whom lived with a natural parent and a step-parent . |
| 5 | For the first two months I lived with a French family in Fontainebleau and studied with a Commandant Lettaure , who was coaching fifteen other young Englishmen . |
| 6 | In one , for example , a casual labourer and his wife in their sixties lived with a woman of 79 , her son of 57 who was a street matchseller , and six younger tenants ; in another a woman of 68 was subletting to another woman of 65 , a crippled woman of sixty , and two others ; while in a third household a 71-year-old sandwich-man lived with an unrelated widow and widower of the same age and two younger tenants . |
| 7 | I lived with an elderly lady in a little thatched cottage which looked like something out of Hansel and Gretel . |