Example sentences of "[verb] lived in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , ERPS has lived in a small corner of the works property since it took delivery of ex-Southern Railway 30828 4-6-0 the Maunsell development of the Urie S15 Class from Barry in March 1981 . |
| 2 | Therefore , someone who lives in a bungalow and has lived in a high radon area since birth is the most likely person to suffer . |
| 3 | He has lived in a large house in Buckinghamshire for several years . |
| 4 | That particular ghost was said at first , because she 'd lived in a hulking great castle with fields and forests and things , and when she saw it again it was a council estate and , as I said , a supermarket . |
| 5 | When Boris began sleeping with her , villagers who wondered what would happen if the husband found out were told by wiser villagers : ‘ If you 'd lived in a big town you 'd know that the husband knows . ’ |
| 6 | It was the opposition of those whose careers were ruined — bankrupt restorations can not reward the victors and conciliate the vanquished — and of those who , having lived in a free society , could not tolerate the frustrations of an unfree society in which private criticism could not be translated into public action . |
| 7 | She was so much a daughter of the vicarage in accent , manner , and appearance ( her father had been a clergyman ) that without being told I had assumed , seeing evidence in Mrs Browning 's home that someone at some time had lived in a hot country , that her husband had been a missionary . |
| 8 | She replied that she had lived in a small group of about 10 people : she indicated the number by holding up both hands with the fingers spread . |
| 9 | On the day after the debate , Saturday , 19th February , ‘ Habitans in Sicco ’ wrote to The Times from what he called ‘ Broad Phylactery ’ , to ridicule the classical attitudes of the Opposition , and said that he had lived in a Broad Sanctuary house for three years and found that it possessed ‘ all the comforts and conveniences of any house in London ’ . |
| 10 | She has been the guardian of this wishing tree in the English churchyard since anyone alive can remember , though before that , the rumour was that she had lived in a wild state , before the islands were properly civilised . |
| 11 | that people can make their o , they have a balanced education which allows them then to make their own choices about , that things are n't over , I mean if we 've lived in a patriarchal society in which men are in power and that kin , and male sexuality maybe has come through more in sex education , those have been the issues that have been co , ha have been given more importance and female issues have maybe been neglected a little bit and now erm , with Aids as a problem we do n't want to turn out and suddenly become really homo homophobic or really , you know , right condoms , condoms , it has to be you know , you need to kind of keep the balance so that people are given the information and then have the freedom to make the choice themselves . |
| 12 | This is especially true of elderly people in mental handicap hospitals who have lived in a closed world all their lives . |
| 13 | If you have lived in a European Community country or any country whose social security system is linked to Britain 's by a reciprocal agreements , contributions or residence there may be counted towards your pension depending on the country concerned . |
| 14 | In the past I have lived in a large Victorian house and a 1930s semi-detached . |
| 15 | But , since glasnost , they have lived in a different world . |
| 16 | We have lived in a wonderful variety of houses , including one normally occupied by a pit deputy in South Yorkshire ; a leaking gothic horror of a Victorian rectory in deepest Sussex that was literally falling to pieces while administrative matters blocked efforts to replace it and our present one near Lewes built in 1934 in the days of live-in maids , recently modernised but still half as big again as any built these days and with a double-size garden . |