Example sentences of "live and [vb past] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another Anglo-Irishman working in the same tradition was Joseph Le Fanu ( 1814–73 ) , whose father , the Dean of Emly , lived and died in fear of premature burial . |
| 2 | He lived and died in Königsberg , never venturing beyond the province , and had the reputation of being the contented bachelor from whose afternoon walk it was possible to set one 's watch . |
| 3 | Zenobia was also the first name of my paternal grandmother who lived and died in Nigeria and whom I never met . |
| 4 | What , one might then ask , does a bunch of Taiwanese and rhesus macaque monkeys which lived and died in laboratory captivity have in common with sexually hyperactive , urban gay men with AIDS ? |
| 5 | Another one The peasants up and down the valley lived and died in their special fashion . |
| 6 | There is a cramped , faded little room given over to the recognition of the literary achievements of the region , in homage to writers who were not themselves Basques but who settled here : the playwright Edmond Rostand , author of the extraordinary Cyrano de Bergerac ; the exotic novelist Pierre Loti , who lived and died in Hendaye ; the sentimental poet Francis Jammes , pictured here in a charming naive portrait , impossibly bearded and together with his wife and their wildly staring dog . |
| 7 | The so-called ‘ founding fathers ’ ( an appropriate phrase ) lived and wrote in an eminently sexist era . |
| 8 | Professor Hoskins , perhaps because of the years he lived and taught in the Midland counties , dwells at considerable length on the impact of parliamentary enclosure on the English landscape . |
| 9 | He lived in a small house there with his brothers and sisters , all Israeli citizens who spoke Hebrew and lived and worked in Israel . |
| 10 | During the course of that regression he told me his name , his trade ( he was a cloth merchant ) and the fact that he lived and worked in the Bristol area . |
| 11 | Walthamstow , Julia Black : adaptation of a William Morris design ; he lived and worked in Walthamstow . |
| 12 | Not only were there more 40s. men and fewer at £1 or less , but in the borough itself the poorest class was much smaller than on the land , implying that the more skilled , more remunerative trades were carried out there , while poorly paid weavers and the like lived and worked in Speenhamland . |
| 13 | Here we met most of the painters who lived and worked in the neighbourhood , and here many discussions took place . |
| 14 | Secondly , the citizen body excluded foreigners who lived and worked in Athens , the metics . |
| 15 | What had happened was an extraordinary growth of world trade which was controlled by merchants and financiers who lived and worked in London . |
| 16 | Among the contents of Matthew 's safe there were two manuscript volumes , the journal of a certain Martin Beale who lived and worked in Natal and Cape Province during the second half of the last century . ’ |
| 17 | It is dedicated to an 18th century Swiss artist who lived and worked in England between 1766–81 , Angelica Kauffman ( 1741–1807 ) / It is really shocking how rare such exhibitions are , especially in Britain . |
| 18 | How could she presume to argue with them when she knew nothing — nothing — and they lived and worked in situations like this ? |
| 19 | I fret often for the days when I lived and worked in the countryside , but one sad sight used to be that of herds of demented idiots vandalising the scenery and terrorising nature in their delirious lust for an innocent animal 's life . |
| 20 | At the centre of all that lived and moved in this ghastly universe was the mine . |
| 21 | The churches are small , perched on the summits of high , needle-like rocks which rise sharply from the valley floor and in which the monks lived and prayed in retreat from the world at large . |
| 22 | Both artists lived and worked in the North , although Basil Rocke was actually born iii the South . |
| 23 | The man who 's lived and worked in the same quarter of the city all his life , has seen his images go around the world and into the hearts of millions . |