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Being British, perhaps, lives with a man (5)

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I believe the answer is:

isles

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'being british perhaps' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'lives with a man' is the wordplay.
'lives' becomes 'is' ('be' can be a synonym of 'live').
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'a man' becomes 'les' ().
'is'+'les'='ISLES'

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(Other definitions for isles that I've seen before include "The Hebrides for instance" , "eg the Scillies" , "Hebrides, perhaps" , "The road to these is a wellknown Scottish song" , "Archipelago" .)

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