Example sentences of "[verb] lived [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maude 's telegram from the Queen was also expected this morning at Trees Park Village , near Middleton St George , where she has lived for the last seven years . |
| 2 | Strong political statements commenting on Ireland where she has lived for the past two years . |
| 3 | It actually takes someone who has lived through the past 40 years as an adult to appreciate how extraordinarily the England of the 1970s differed from the England of the 1940s , and the France , Italy or Spain of the 1980s from those countries in the early 1950s . |
| 4 | Sachin Tandulkar , Yorkshire 's first-ever overseas player , does his best to look as if he has lived in the northern county all his life |
| 5 | Milton has lived in the same stable all the time he has been with the Whitakers . |
| 6 | For 18 years he has lived in the same house in London 's Gospel Oak , though he could easily afford the neighbouring and more upmarket Hampstead . |
| 7 | After the hearing Mrs Todd , who has lived in the same house for 27 years , said she had no plans to move . |
| 8 | Des Aust has lived in the same house all his life . |
| 9 | Des Aust has lived in the same house all his life . |
| 10 | It also contained her unconscious valedictory : As a Catholic observer who has lived in the Third World for nearly 30 years , I have followed developments in the Church , at times with despair but mostly with optimism . |
| 11 | ‘ My beloved husband died after a lingering illness on 29th April at 18 minutes past 4 o'clock in the morning … if he would have lived to the 25th August , he would have been 63 years old . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I feel as if , by the time I retire , I shall have lived through the entire life-cycle of post-war higher education . |
| 13 | The trouble with having lived in the Middle East for a year or two is that , wherever one goes , one is bound to run into acquaintances ; and that means drinks at the nearest bar , and more acquaintances , and finally the complete derangement of one 's intended programme , and great loss of time . |
| 14 | Having lived in the Big Apple some years previously , Robbie is glad to be back ‘ in his kind of town ’ . |
| 15 | According to an oral tradition first set down thirty years after her death by Samuel Peckover , a prominent local Quaker , she was said to have been born in Paris , the daughter of James , Duke of York , then in exile , and an unnamed maid of honour to Queen Henrietta Maria , and to have lived at the English court from the Restoration to 1688 without , apparently , any contemporary ever noticing her . |
| 16 | However , parallel cousins who may in reality be half-siblings are also likely to have lived in the same household . |
| 17 | Do n't believe everything he says , mind , but he claims to have lived in the same house all his life . |
| 18 | Rain fell heavily all day to add to the misery of people who came in the shop , many of whom had lived through the Great War , and told Anne some of the horrors of that time . |
| 19 | Within days of the allied liberation of Kuwait in late February [ see pp. 37982-90 ] it was evident that some Kuwaitis who had lived through the Iraqi occupation were disillusioned with the ruling Sabah family and were determined to demand political reforms . |
| 20 | They had an agent , they said , who lived close to where he had lived during the short period after his return from Canada . |
| 21 | However , if they had lived with the deceased , an unmarried partner 's children from a previous marriage or relationship might be able to prove they were dependent and obtain provision from the estate . |
| 22 | He , too , had lived with the Darwinian controversies and indulged in a similar backward projection . |
| 23 | Amazingly , they all had lived on the same street , and all had lived what one of these illustrious club-handlers estimated as a ‘ good wedge from one another ’ . |
| 24 | I had lived at the same place in Hampstead for over twenty years and so , as a sitting tenant , my rent was pretty cheap . |
| 25 | Her father had lived at the Old Parsonage at Wouldham and had 10 children . |
| 26 | In 1983 a hairy snail was discovered in the Thames marshes near Kew , where its ancestors had lived for the last 10,000 years . |
| 27 | Moreover she had changed trains three times , because it is an awkward , cross-country journey from Chetwynd Magna to St Petrock's-on-Sea , where the O'Briens had lived for the past six years . |
| 28 | Miss Gracie had been the last governess , a pale sad woman who had lived for the brief holidays she could get away to spend with a beloved brother and his family in Stirling . |
| 29 | But she had lived inside the Dark Realm for many months , she had been forced to see the terrible creatures that hold sway there , and she had been at Medoc 's mercy for all of that time . |
| 30 | Arnold Leese , its leader , was a member of the Britons and had gained a strong belief in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion as a result of contact with Arthur Kitson in Stamford , Lincolnshire , where Leese had lived in the 1920s . |