Example sentences of "[noun] lived on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labourers and more poorly paid seamen lived on the banksides and in the ‘ low street ’ in single-room tenements in industrial and pre-industrial slums . |
| 2 | Jim lived on the edge between life and death , he straddled the fence , and his balls hurt . |
| 3 | The Palestinian need for Jordan seemed to be borne out during the years 1983–6 when the PLO lived on the edge of political extinction . |
| 4 | Gemma lived on the farm with her parents Elizabeth and Timothy . |
| 5 | Maud lived on the ground floor of a red-brick Georgian house on the outskirts of Lincoln . |
| 6 | His parents lived on the Isle of Skye where they spent a lot of time observing the habits of the puffins on the beach . |
| 7 | I linked both books to the theme of ‘ Outsiders ’ , not because of the title but because I felt both books told the story of two lives lived on the edge of society . |
| 8 | Having now documented Louis 's address and instrument business near the Pont Marie Therese for the years 1691,1692 and 1712 , while the other Louis lived on the rue Marmousets and evidently worked in his brother Nicolas 's atelier ( according to common practice , he would have used his brother 's stamp ) , we can conclude that the former made instruments stamped ‘ L/Hotteterre ’ with a fleur-de-lis above , whereas instruments by the latter would have been made in the workshop of Nicolas Hotteterre and stamped ‘ N/Hotteterre ’ with a six-pointed star above . |
| 9 | Whole strata of the British middle classes lived on the income received in the form of interest and dividends from such investments . |
| 10 | Once a fisherman lived on the lonely shore . |
| 11 | More than a third of the German population lived on the land , the east was still dominated by the huge Junker estates and the south by the highly conservative small- and middle-scale farmers and their labourers . |
| 12 | They were able to show that a high proportion of the buildings that still front the main street leading from the church to the market place were retail shops , public houses and other commercial properties whose owners lived on the premises , usually above or behind the shop . |
| 13 | Doctor Rossitter lived on the green ; Breeze saw the brass plate from afar , and hurried up the path . |
| 14 | INDIE rockers Suede lived on the breadline for 18 months before finding pop success . |
| 15 | Over 100 people lived on the lot before the fire . |
| 16 | Only five people lived on the island , so I could work alone , and nobody would discover my awful secret . |
| 17 | When school was over , Mr Trilby decided to investigate further , so he walked to the house where Miss Trunchbull lived on the edge of the village , the lovely small red-brick Georgian building known as The Red House , tucked away in the woods behind the hills . |
| 18 | Allen lived on the Isle of Wight and had submitted dozens of scripts to the BBC and ITV , all of them turned down . |
| 19 | Most of the members lived on the council estate and were from working-class or lower-middle-class backgrounds . |
| 20 | Man lived on the earth content for a while within the garden of Eden with all the animals and plants God had created . |
| 21 | No doubt an account of a hostel for the homeless would be audacious and arresting , but would it be an authentic scenario of life lived on the edge of ordinary extremity ? |
| 22 | Few children lived on the road and residents were mostly retired . |
| 23 | The great ecclesiastical towns lived on the churches and monasteries — perhaps a twentieth of the population of Valladolid depended on the Church — while soup and bread doles from the episcopal palaces and monasteries were an important element in the budget of the urban poor . |
| 24 | If the animal lived on the sea bottom , it seems unlikely that it would have eye lenses specialized for looking downwards , and we begin to suspect that the animal habitually dwelt above the sea floor . |
| 25 | It was a moment of horror in a childhood lived on the edges of the occult east of London . |
| 26 | Charlton Heston lived on the other side and Warren Beatty was also a near neighbour . |
| 27 | Closest to the Frankish frontier was Westphalia , whose tribes lived on the Lippe and Ems , and in the region about the Teutoburger Wald . |
| 28 | Signe lived on the first floor . |
| 29 | He vanished 14 months ago when his family lived on the island of Kos . |
| 30 | Margaret 's family lived on the top floor . |