Example sentences of "to live [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The congregation usually watched him with a perverse relish which he mistook for devout attention , but this Sunday afternoon there was palpably an added curiosity to see how well he managed to live down the shaming comedy he had enacted on horseback a few days before . |
| 2 | ‘ Mick was very much trying to live down the pretty-boy guitarist bit and to be taken seriously as a blues player . |
| 3 | Almost every woman I 've known had to live off a perpetual menu of rabbit 's food . |
| 4 | Not only do Christians have the necessary basis for such a concept , but we know that we are commanded to live out a standard unselfishness , far surpassing a mere social grace . |
| 5 | ‘ A hero who sought to live out a mythological quest to find himself . |
| 6 | ‘ I came to hate the Tech-Green philosophy and did n't want to live out an expanded life up there somewhere , looking down on the unfortunates left on Earth . |