Example sentences of "to live [prep] a [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite her previous marriage , Æthelthryth had always lived as a virgin and was determined to remain one , retiring altogether to live as a nun in Coldingham about 672 . |
| 2 | If I were to choose any country in the world to live as a family in it would have to be somewhere different , perhaps exotic . |
| 3 | Such a person might , with the full sanction of ‘ Be aware ’ , deliberately choose the unpleasant alternative , to live for a while in a jungle or a slum . |
| 4 | If people say that it is wrong that teachers should be allowed , even encouraged , to tell pupils that it is acceptable to live in a household in a particular form of sexual relationship , that goes beyond what is a proper and a responsible training for life in society . ’ |
| 5 | Do we want to live in a society in which making money is all that matters , or are there other objectives that we hold more dear . |
| 6 | But we just happen to live in a history in which the Allies won the war and Madonna was on the cover of Cosmopolitan . |
| 7 | The poodle people said you 'd thrown everything up and gone off to live in a shack in the country … |
| 8 | This is not only the temperament of the teacher : it represents also , with Pound , a passionate desire , not merely to write well himself , but to live in a period in which he could be surrounded by equally intelligent and creative minds . |
| 9 | We used to live in a house in Manchester in the slums . |