Example sentences of "[verb] lived in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | Milton has lived in the same stable all the time he has been with the Whitakers . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | After the hearing Mrs Todd , who has lived in the same house for 27 years , said she had no plans to move . |
| 5 | Des Aust has lived in the same house all his life . |
| 6 | Des Aust has lived in the same house all his life . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Having lived in the Big Apple some years previously , Robbie is glad to be back ‘ in his kind of town ’ . |
| 10 | However , parallel cousins who may in reality be half-siblings are also likely to have lived in the same household . |
| 11 | Do n't believe everything he says , mind , but he claims to have lived in the same house all his life . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | After months of negotiations between the Russian , Chilean and German authorities the former East German leader , Erich Honecker , was flown on July 29 from Moscow ( where he had lived in the Chilean embassy since December 1991 — see pp. 38687-88 ; 38782 ) to Berlin where he was imprisoned . |
| 14 | She had lived in the lovely old building for twenty years and never had any desire to leave it or the grounds . |
| 15 | All the findings of opinion polls and other surveys suggested that the overwhelming majority of ordinary citizens were convinced that the period of their nation 's history through which they had lived in the forty-odd years since the end of the war in 1945 , was a time of comfort and content . |
| 16 | In the early days of their marriage they had lived in the very heart of London , close to the centres of business , art and culture . |
| 17 | Mrs Godwin and her husband had lived in the pictureque village of Spratton for the past four years . |
| 18 | Peter and Carol had lived in the same row of houses for 16 years . |
| 19 | At Abbotsfield itself he had lived in the same house as Kate for nearly a month . |
| 20 | He had kept the same job , they had lived in the same house , they had rented the same seaside bungalow for a summer holiday , year in year out . |
| 21 | Because his rights as a tenant were protected and because in any case the university did n't wish to be seen turfing out an elderly man whose family had lived in the same cottage for five generations , we left him in peace and build around him , as it were , expecting him perhaps to move elsewhere or maybe to pass away . |
| 22 | His sister had lived in the big gloomy house for such a little time . |
| 23 | As he thought this he felt in his heart a voiceless nameless twinge , like a tiny spark , which he chose to identify as a signal , which very rarely came through , from his ancestors who had lived in the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw . |
| 24 | The noted cleric had lived in the nearby vicarage and some of the features of that property are reflected in Edelson House , says its present owner and one-time Darlington cricketer , Mr Richard Carter . |
| 25 | It turned out that Anderson had lived in the last apartment that we 'd been in , moving out the day after we arrived . |
| 26 | Up to that time Parma had not been touched , and the Parmigiani had lived in the irrational hope that the Americans would not bomb the city because Toscanini , by then living in the United States , had persuaded them not to do so . |
| 27 | But I 've lived in the same house with my daughter-in-law for four years . |
| 28 | Touring the huge THORP plant and Sellafield 's visitors ' centre took up one day and then the group were given a guided tour of nearby Muncaster Castle by Sir Patrick Gordon-Duff Pennington , whose family have lived in the historic castle for more than 300 years . |
| 29 | The typical appellate judge will be at least 60 years of age , white , male and educated at public school and at Oxford or Cambridge and have lived in the insular world of the Bar for more than 30 years . |
| 30 | But so is the fact that one or both families have lived in the same area for four generations . |