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 . |