Example sentences of "[pron] lived a [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This arose because although the site was nearly ideal for our purposes , right in the middle there stood a small cottage in which lived a retired shepherd , Amos Chatfield . |
| 2 | Meanwhile the owner the person who lived a small terraced property , whose garden backs onto the fields tried to get the hounds several dozen hounds off these two dogs who were being savaged to death and he had a heart attack in the process , Chairman and was hospitalized for several weeks That Chairman is the effect of the hunt on one of my constituents whose job it is for me to defend the rights that I was elected here to defend the rights of my constituents , not to be harassed in this manner . |
| 3 | By the time of Jesus , those Jews who lived a good distance from Jerusalem were required only to make the pilgrimage at Passover . |
| 4 | In the room there were many family pictures , and one of them was of a very beautiful woman , Lady Amelia , who lived a hundred and fifty years ago . |
| 5 | A lot of people seem to refer to Jesus as a good man who lived a long time ago ; a man who taught about God and who became ‘ Son of God ’ by his resurrection . |
| 6 | ‘ It does n't matter — just someone who lived a long time ago — best forgotten . ’ |
| 7 | He ended up in the village of Hampole near Doncaster , where he became the spiritual director of the local anchoress Margaret Kirkby , who lived a solitary life in a cell next to the Church , and the nuns of the enclosed Cistercian convent . |
| 8 | Liddy was allowed a week 's holiday to visit her sister , who lived a few miles away . |
| 9 | The tragedy occurred as John Robson , 15 , of Essex Close , Grangetown , Middlesbrough , went to collect paper money owed by Robyn Thrower , 25 , who lived a few doors down from his own . |
| 10 | He thought he knew Ash fairly well , as well as anyone might know a man whose life seemed to be all in his mind , who lived a quiet and exemplary married life for forty years , whose correspondence was voluminous indeed , but guarded , courteous and not of the most lively . |
| 11 | you lived a young life did n't you ? |
| 12 | In order to still his sexual passions Sir Frances took an unusual wife , what was unusual about her A , she was made of snow , B , she had no vagina , C , she lived a thousand miles away ? |
| 13 | Although she lived a long way from the town , she seldom missed Brownie Pack Meeting . |
| 14 | When we lived a simpler life we walked , swam , stretched and climbed as a matter of course almost every day of our lives . |
| 15 | You nomes in the Store did n't know about my people , and we lived a few miles away . |
| 16 | ‘ Once upon a time , ’ he would begin his lectures , ‘ in the remote marches and forests of Central Asia , near a lake called Issyk-Koul in the province of Semiriechinsk , there lived a small , pretty squirrel-like creature called the Marmot … ’ |
| 17 | Inside her , there lived a small frightened creature she felt was unlovable . |
| 18 | In Mongu Town , where I was born , there lived a merry maid , up high in banana tree ! ’ |
| 19 | They lived a long way away , but they decided to take a weeks holiday in Cornwall and decided to see Daryl in the middle of it . |
| 20 | As a Jewish family , they lived a structured , close-knit life . |
| 21 | They lived a reclusive life and were hardly ever seen . |
| 22 | He lived a great deal in his fantasies and he enjoyed these . |
| 23 | It sometimes meant he lived a hectic life , especially when the band were playing far from Leeds . |
| 24 | Her nephew , Tim , was Miss Miggs 's only relative , and he lived a long way away up in the North . |
| 25 | Therefore , in the bleak aftermath of war , he lived a hand-to-mouth existence in the less attractive areas of London . |
| 26 | For seven years , Safarimoja kept track of the cassava , transplanting it to various places as he lived a nomadic hunting life . |
| 27 | That 's why he lived a lonely life and locked all his doors so carefully . |
| 28 | Now God loves the world , he sent Jesus to die for the world , Jesus came , he lived a sinless life , he gave his life on the cross of Calvary , he died there for my sins they were put on him , the whole story of salvation but , salvation in it 's totality is God 's gift , I do not have to merit it . |
| 29 | He lived a full and active life . |
| 30 | Yet he had friends , the love of his mother and he lived a full life . |