Example sentences of "[vb past] to live at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Bill Clough proposed , she accepted him and came to live at Petworth Estate . |
| 2 | ALMOST the first thing Jenny did when she came to live at Dale End was to fall in the river . |
| 3 | His Aunt Lucy came to live at Howfield in order to look after Ramsey 's father and the family after Agnes Ramsey was killed . |
| 4 | They married in 1910 and she came to live at West park , where Father was farming with his sister , Hannah . |
| 5 | He came to live at Maureen 's , too , and she may well breed him with Rusty — if we 're right in thinking Rusty is a female , that is ! |
| 6 | Spinning by the village women fell into disuse by 1819 and the wheels were silent until Mr Albert Fleming and his housekeeper , Miss Twelves , came to live at Neaum Crag , Skelwith Bridge . |
| 7 | Somewhere in the stillness of the night an owl hooted — the first one she 'd heard since she came to live at Les Hiboux , Sabine realised , surprised . |
| 8 | In 1884 , disenchanted with his life at Eton , Salt decided to live at Tilford in Surrey and concentrate on a simple life , following his many interests in the field of humanitarianism . |
| 9 | well you know Gillian the couple who lived next door who went to live at Burnley ? |
| 10 | We used to call him Daddy Wilkins because he was the father of a large family , but they had all grown up , got married and spread about , so he was left on his own — probably not able to cook for himself which is why he went to live at Mrs Raw 's place . |
| 11 | As her friend Carolyn Bartholomew , who watched her waste away during her engagement , recalls : ‘ She went to live at Buckingham Palace and then the tears started . |
| 12 | He went to live at Stourhead after his mother 's death in 1742 , and over the next forty years he became a discriminating collector and patron of the arts , laying the foundations of an important library , but above all he transformed the landscape at Stourhead , creating the lake and the classical temples , which so vividly recall a Claudian idyll . |
| 13 | WELL , SIR , WHEN Miss Catherine became Mrs Linton , and we went to live at Thrushcross Grange , I must say I was surprised and pleased by her behaviour . |
| 14 | When his father died in 1933 Dawson inherited the family property in Yorkshire and went to live at Hartlington Hall , but stayed there only a few years because of his frail health . |
| 15 | ‘ There was no inheritance in the case , you see , for Robert Beckenham was only a third son and chose to live at home in idleness rather than follow a profession . ’ |
| 16 | In the economic circumstances of the time , most students had to live at home . |
| 17 | The Dalisons continued to live at Halling Palace until 1656 , when the grandson of Sir Maximilian , also named Maximilian , married Frances Stanley of West Peckham , heir to Thomas Stanley . |
| 18 | After the death of his wife he continued to live at Ightham and finished his work on his Perambulation , which was published in 1576 . |
| 19 | After their father 's death Alice and Robert Edelson continued to live at Edelson House , which has a 50ft-high monument in the garden , a memorial to two Edelson babies who died when only months old . |