Example sentences of "[vb mod] live [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lilliput and Blefuscu should live in peace now . ’ |
| 2 | The family , as Josephine Butler put it , was in accordance with the law of God , and the claim that every person should live in accord with their instincts was a departure from ‘ the sternness of the moral law ’ . |
| 3 | It is sometimes thought , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) that , because there is no discernable principle of order in the universe or in our lives we should live in disorder . |
| 4 | Coleridge rationalized the departure in his poem ‘ Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement ’ , asking whether it was right that he should live in beauty and solitude while his ‘ unnumber 'd brethren toil 'd and bled ’ in the greater world . |
| 5 | IF Fred Barker , Master of the Quorn , believes that changing garb would make one iota of difference to those who object to hunting then he must live in cloud cuckoo land . |
| 6 | To say that Miranda on the island and Rosalind in the forest ‘ correspond to the soul of the ducal crown which can not remain with the illegal usurper , but must live in exile with the rightful ruler ’ uses queer and difficult language without helping matters one jot . |
| 7 | But now I 'm just deciding I 'll live off invalidity benefit for a wee while longer , leaving that in the hands of my my managing director and somebody else and the money that 's coming through from the Queen and whatever I 'm just gon na live on invalidity benefit , I 'm only drawing invalidity benefit , I 'm not gon na get any more money than invalidity benefit . |
| 8 | We 'll live in luxury for the rest of our lives . ’ |
| 9 | She 'd live on cheese pizzas if we let her . ’ |
| 10 | They 've always been a precarious , yeah , I mean me dad used to work down the shipyard and you know you 'd live in fear for when they would close the yards down |
| 11 | Slowly , what was beginning to emerge — largely as a result of El Cid 's efforts — was a Spanish kingdom where both Christian and Moor could live at peace . |
| 12 | A 20-year-old crusader who could live on rice , salt and chillies once a day had to decide whether she could foist that option on her kids . |
| 13 | She could live on water , and a little cactusflesh . |
| 14 | As Sister Cecilia was to say to her , one could live without reading , writing , or arithmetic , sewing , singing or geography ; and yes — there would be a twinkle in her eye — with some , even without the good God ; but one could n't live without food and without those who knew how to make it appetising to the tongue . |
| 15 | If I had to choose between the two , I could live without performing but not without song writing . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , faced with price increases of up to 25 per cent , many of us decided we could live without champagne . |
| 17 | I wondered how long one could live without food or water ? |
| 18 | In 1975 , for instance , journalists arriving in Beirut would invariably be told by the Lebanese of the halcyon days which had just ended , of the peaceful Phoenician land in which Christians and Muslims had shown the world that historically religious antagonists could live in peace . |
| 19 | Or , more to the point , how they could live in peace and make money . |
| 20 | I could live in peace with the might-have-beens as well ; the elfin-faced , slant-eyed boy who never existed … |
| 21 | The revolutionary proposition was that all patients could live in community units outside the asylums , and that their placements could be funded from the revenue sunk into the big hospitals . |
| 22 | Instead of the class struggle enunciated by Marx he externalised the struggle and insisted that all Indonesians could live in harmony in a gotong-royong ‘ mutual help ’ society . |
| 23 | Many went to Paris to find work , but after the fall of France they began making their way to the cities of the south , where they could live in safety . |
| 24 | No , he was n't on drugs before cos he used to live at Valley . |
| 25 | Ocean mammals , such as seals and whales , used to live on land and had ears very similar to ours . |
| 26 | These beings used to live on Earth Seven a long time ago , but they retreated to Earth Six because it was too hot and too dirty here . |
| 27 | No I do n't remember that , because we , we 'd be , we 'd moved from Street into Street and er I went to Road School first and er of course er my mother 's mother , that 's my grandmother , she was living with us then she used to live in Street . |
| 28 | I , I can remember all the activity and er when it was erected there was a fella from the First World War , he lost a leg in the war and he was in charge of the billiards room and the tables , when they built the club itself the front part used to be devoted to card games and then they installed a billiards hall and the tables and as I say a chap named he used to live in Street , but he was , a lost a leg during the war and they found him the job of looking after the tables and marking |
| 29 | For she that ca n't keep her virtue ought to live in disgrace . |
| 30 | " I shall live on hope for the next week . |