Example sentences of "[to-vb] and live [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that little old ladies who are , decide , or old gentlemen for that matter , want to try and live in the community , and then , they stick that on their bill . |
| 2 | We were already beginning to try and live by the diet . |
| 3 | I 'm going to come and live at Moorlake . " |
| 4 | Conway , who prudently forbade Taylor to dedicate any of his works to himself , eventually persuaded him to come and live on his estates in Ireland as a ‘ lecturer ’ , which was a more acceptable title to the authorities than ‘ chaplain ’ . |
| 5 | If Viola were willing to come and live with him , they could have romantic evenings alone without Gina . |
| 6 | Then , when she met you she fell in love and wanted to come and live with you . |
| 7 | The lady Anne has talked of little else since she met you and would be overjoyed , I know , were you able in due course to come and live with us . |
| 8 | So he invited my mother 's unmarried sister , my aunt , to come and live with us . |
| 9 | From stories handed down , it seems that the Frenchman saw Marama , insisted on painting her straight away , and then said she was the most beautiful woman he 'd ever seen and begged her to come and live with him . |
| 10 | I advised Paulette to come and live with me , or with our cousin . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm very happy to come and live with you , and belong to you . |
| 12 | The father replied , ‘ I am prepared to let you have ( the child ) and pay you up to £1 a week allowance for her providing you can prove that she will be well looked after and happy and also that she is allowed to decide for herself whether or not she wishes to come and live with you . ’ |
| 13 | MORRIS L.J. : It seems to me , therefore , that the father was saying , in effect : Irrespective of what may be the strict legal position , what I am asking is that you shall prove that the child will be well looked after and happy , and also that you must agree that the child is to be allowed to decide for herself whether or not she wishes to come and live with you . |
| 14 | And there 's these hills where it 's hot and rains all the time , and in the rain forests there are these very tall trees and right in the top branches of the trees there are these like great big flowers called bromeliads and water gets into the flowers and makes little pools and there 's a type of frog that lays eggs in the pools and tadpoles hatch and grow into new frogs and these little frogs live their whole lives in the flowers right at the top of the trees and do n't even know about the ground and the world is full of things like that and now I know about them and I 'm never ever going to be able to see them and then you , ’ she gulped for breath , ‘ want me to come and live with you in a hole and wash your socks ! ’ |
| 15 | For a moment she was speechless , then she said , ‘ You mean you 're happy for Kirsty to come and live with me ? ’ |
| 16 | Mr Taylor 's relatives had asked their Uncle to come and live with them . |
| 17 | I do n't know , they 've sold out a dozen at Broadway this week , well int last fortnight , so White Gates were telling me , so , well if we do , we do , if the bungalow goes before we sell well , we 'll have to come and live with me mum until we find another one . |
| 18 | ‘ I invite her to come and live in my apartment . ’ |
| 19 | And they was proud to come and live in it . |
| 20 | And I 'd like to give a challenge to either er Michael Allison or any of the other MPs to come and live in my little bungalow for And exist on that rate for a week . |
| 21 | This ensures that students and staff are well looked after at all times , and staff are well looked after at all times , and they can continue to work and live in an attractive and secure environment . |
| 22 | This style is easy to create and live with , and combines well with traditional antiques and furnishings . |
| 23 | A large part of El Al 's business comes from bringing Jews to visit and live in Israel . |
| 24 | ‘ I would have had it done , ’ said the owner , a small , pale woman , ‘ but I 'm selling up to go and live with my sister and it did n't seem worth it . ’ |
| 25 | In the spring , almost without knowing how it happened , she accepted Rachel 's invitation to go and live with her in the new house she was buying in London . |
| 26 | She had arranged to go and live with a niece , whose husband was out of work ; the couple would look after the old lady together . |
| 27 | None of the children wanted to go and live with their birth parents , but simply to keep contact . |
| 28 | She thought it quite wonderful that this kind man , who was not married , who had a job , who was on Lambeth Council 's housing list , actually wanted Tina to go and live with him . |
| 29 | I came out of the orphanage to go and live with my mother and I found myself one of the family of six living in one room , the house was a four roomed house plus a scullery . |
| 30 | I feel that these difficulties have gone on too long for there to be a realistic prospect of change in time for these children and given their improvement whilst in foster care , where they are not brought up in their parents ' conflict , it is not in the children 's interests for them to go and live with the father and that they need to be placed in an environment with permanent substitute parents , who can meet the boys ' physical , emotional , educational and social needs . |