Example sentences of "[prep] living in " in BNC.
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| 1 | One may be amused — though not very — that after living in Italy for forty-five years Max still could not speak Italian , but such insularity is not to be imitated . |
| 2 | To live in one room after living in a country where houses are so open . |
| 3 | Perhaps it might be disputed whether , after living in the USA for nearly half a century , Miss McPartland is still British . |
| 4 | I was n't going to turn her out with nowhere to go , you know , young lady — but perhaps it 's a bit hard on an old lady to go into a new place after living in the same cottage most of her life . |
| 5 | Now , after living in the house for nine years , some rooms need redecorating before the others have even been revamped for the first time . |
| 6 | Here after living in strict confinement he found himself dining and playing bowls with amiable divines . |
| 7 | After living in Surrey since then we have n't regretted the choice , because a number of things make Surrey special . |
| 8 | Julie , who will be familiar to viewers of Brookside , September Song , Luv , Taggart and A Word in Your Era , moved a couple of miles outside Bures last summer after living in Monks Eleigh for five years . |
| 9 | Now , after living in a large house at Cape Cod on the east coast of America for 35 years , she has returned to England and settled in a small village in Berkshire . |
| 10 | After living in London for a while the couple spent a few days in Bournemouth and on St Swithun 's Day 1875 they came by steamer to Swanage . |
| 11 | Belle Carr , Derwent Street , Chopwell , Tyne and Wear : I had not been long back in England after living in Malaya . |
| 12 | The differences between living in my Hollywood A-frame and in our Balinese house required an organism-crunching transition , which in many ways parallels the fundamental complementary opposites between East and West . |
| 13 | Hue and Cry jet off to Sigma Sound , NYC , to work with Jimmy Biondolillo ( Sinatra 's strings arranger ) and the horn section James Brown used for Living in America . |
| 14 | What a far cry from the ‘ machine for living in ’ which Cherry Hill was meant to be . |
| 15 | Sometimes Soutine , who was living in the village , came over to enjoy a good chicken dinner , and after eating their fill the two artists reproached their host for living in such luxury . |
| 16 | It 's a time for few windows and we have many , and maybe it 's even a time for living in town or city with lights and movement and not just the dead nettles of the water meadow to gaze at . |
| 17 | ‘ Not at all , Meg , you 're the sanest person I know , except for living in a caravan on the edge of a cliff . |
| 18 | Yet even so , the dispensary was busy every day , and we did have a great deal of work , dealing with the humdrum , everyday ailments — yaws , measles , ‘ flu and accidents — accepted by the Polynesians with a philosophical resignation , as though they were saying , ‘ This is the price we pay for living in paradise . ’ |
| 19 | Anything less promising as a design for living in the desert is hard to imagine . |
| 20 | She suggests that the ‘ board ’ money which young people paid for living in the parental household was seen as an exchange , especially for daughters : they handed over their wages to their mothers and in exchange their mothers equipped them to enable them to go into service . |
| 21 | providing the child with the ‘ survival skills ’ necessary for living in a racist society ; |
| 22 | ‘ This is a programme that can make a difference by preparing our young people for living in a world of powerful images , words and ideas , ’ says Elizabeth Thoman , the Center 's Director . |
| 23 | Writing almost a century after Kingston , he fulfilled the expectations of his readers with less melodrama in his plots and a more responsible attitude to life in his young hero , but Quinn is a very obvious descendant of Marryat 's Peter Simple and Kingston 's Jack Rogers in his lively opportunism and his youthful capacity for living in the present . |
| 24 | Each club was deader than the last ; frigid and dirty , empty or inhospitable , with Robin increasingly silent and me feeling guilty for living in Hicksville . |
| 25 | Not only is it physically dependent on older members of the species but it also lacks the behaviour patterns necessary for living in human society . |
| 26 | Denis Healey for his wit and style , Oriana Fallacci for her courage and writing , and Vaclav Havel for living in truth . |
| 27 | There had been no hesitation of course with regard to the captain who , despite rumours and only rumours about his taste for low company — which she supposed any military man might possess — was a Goldsborough of Frizingley with nothing really known against him but his preference for living in a tavern . |
| 28 | During counterinsurgency operations government forces sometimes used rape and sexual abuse to try and extract information from women suspected of involvement with the armed opposition , or even to punish women merely for living in areas known to be sympathetic to insurgents . |
| 29 | Space Biospheres Ventures , the private firm that built and runs Biosphere 2 , said the bionauts set a new world record for living in a closed system . |
| 30 | HANNAH Hauxwell , the former Teesdale hill farmer who became famous for living in virtual isolation miles from civilisation , is to appear on This Is Your Life shortly . |