Example sentences of "have lived in a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Magee 's 30-year-old sister , Kathleen , who for several years has lived in a redbrick Victorian terrace house in Northumberland Street , Derby , with her seven-year-old son , Christopher , was being held last night .
2 We have already heard the hon. Member for Staffordshire , South ( Mr. Cormack ) suggest that there should be a further element which would take into account the length of time that someone has lived in a house .
3 Back in the days when he 'd lived in a hole in a bank , Masklin had spent far too much time cold and wet to turn up his nose at a chance to sleep warm and dry .
4 It was the first time he 'd been really alone since the days when he 'd lived in a hole and had to go out hunting by himself because there was no one else .
5 I had no idea there was a class distinction , having lived in a sort of world of my own , and when I went to meet his parents in his house in Bromley , I 'd never been to such a small , little house where all the chairs had those things on the back where you catch the Brylcreem and you sat down and had high tea .
6 But having lived in a Louisiana prison for five years , he is a relative newcomer .
7 I am perhaps fortunate in having lived in a number of other countries .
8 He would have liked , Adam knew , to have lived in a time when a father could forbid his son to do things and the son would obey .
9 It seemed to her now that she had lived in a dream .
10 Modesty Blaise had lived in a penthouse , and Travis McGee lived on a boat called the Busted Flush .
11 Simon Templar had lived in a mews .
12 But those least likely to have spent time in a hospital or hospice or to die in one were those who had lived in a nursing home for a year or more .
13 Imagine if Colette or Jane Austen or Dorothy Parker or Chaucer or Shakespeare or Marcel Proust had lived in a world without gossip !
14 ‘ I understand , ’ said Snizort , who had lived in a world where entire civilisations had been lost and who had spent his life searching for fragments of them .
15 Since their wedding 5 years ago she and husband Mark had lived in a caravan at nearby Fulbrook .
16 I had lived in a motor car for a few years and the rediscovery of my legs was painful .
17 When he 'd first arrived he had lived in a succession of bedsitting rooms on the west side , for which he had been charged extortionate rents by landlords who he never met ; the third night after coming to The Bar for the first time he had slept with someone who knew of someone who had a spare room at a much more reasonable price , and Boy had moved in .
18 But she had lived with a dragon for over ten years , and she had lived in a house filled with strong women , so she knew that there was something very wrong with that scenario .
19 Her father had been an equerry to the Queen and to King George VI before that ; and before her grandfather died in 1975 and her father became the Eighth Earl Spencer and moved to Althorp , the family had lived in a house on the Sandringham Estate .
20 Paul had been brought up by his mother with whom he had lived in a flat behind Broadcasting House .
21 Miss Hughes had lived in a flat underneath the deceased 's own rooms at 150B , High Street .
22 During the party leadership contest much emphasis had been placed in the media on the fact that Major had not had the advantage of a privileged home background or education , that his father had once been a trapeze artist , that his family had lived in a flat in Brixton in South London , and that he had left school at 16 and been unemployed for some time .
23 Since the Revolution of 1830 , this group had lived in a sort of internal emigration , rejoicing in the fall of one usurper and awaiting with undiminished confidence the inevitable departure of his successor .
24 You 're afraid to ask perhaps for I mean I 've lived in a house with a landlord , the landlord turned the heating down , turned the water heating off on occasions because we were using too much hot water between about four or five of us .
25 Since my wife died two years ago , I 've lived in a flat on my own .
26 Not many people that 's lived in a house take the carpets cos they wo n't fit wherever else they 're going .
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