Example sentences of "i lived for " in BNC.

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1 I had no sister , I went to all-boys schools , I lived out of town , never went to parties and while for others girlfriends were the in-thing , I lived for sport . ’
2 I lived for many years in the north of England .
3 It would n't be an exaggeration to say I lived for that owl during that very intense period of training .
4 Good Friday is about punks at Hastings , where I lived for many years , seen feeding a hot-cross bun to pigeons .
5 In order to observe this and to try to understand something of what life in the movement was like at first hand — and , of course , to try to observe the operation of sociological variables such as social control — I lived for several periods of a week or so , over a span of six years , in Unification centres and participated in various of their functions .
6 Leontyne Price sang ‘ Visse d'Arte , ’ from ‘ Tosca ’ : ‘ I lived for art and love …
7 Someone in the New York Times said I was opening in Berlin , where I lived for fifteen years .
8 I lived for months with real friends who loved England and could not get enough to eat from her .
9 I lived for the six weeks almost as one of the Community except that I did not sleep at the Manor .
10 I lived for the cliches , I awaited them .
11 Of course , there was always Agnes , and I lived for the nights when I joined the Ralembergs for their simple meal .
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