Example sentences of "they lived [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When bad times came and wages were below the level on which they could support their families , the labourers found that they had to ask the authorities of the parish in which they lived for relief ; in other words they became paupers , who could be sent to the workhouse . |
| 2 | The people knew all about pain and death ; they lived with pain and death every day , and they faced them bravely . |
| 3 | Women did not qualify for a ‘ family wage ’ since it was assumed ( erroneously in some cases ) that they lived at home with parents or relatives and that they did not have dependants to support financially . |
| 4 | He owed his life to his men , he said , and he had been horrified to discover the conditions in which they lived at home , particularly in the towns — he being a gentleman , you see , and always living in the country in comfort . |
| 5 | They lived on success and despair . |
| 6 | Otherwise they lived on Harvest Crunch bran cereal and chocolate . |
| 7 | They lived on East Broadway where they had been able to afford property . |
| 8 | It had been his first and only history lesson , and throughout their hungry and needy years in Bunarkaig he never lost the sense that they lived under threat , that government was pitiless , and that some day they would have to fight again for the right to live at peace in their own place . |
| 9 | Even though they lived inside stone buildings , they furnished them like tents . |
| 10 | They lived in water ; perhaps in puddles , attached to clays . |
| 11 | When he was winning , they lived in style . |
| 12 | Did he hate them because they lived in Sea House , because there was the garden and the setters , because they were friends and he had no friends himself ? |
| 13 | They lived in Road when I was born . |
| 14 | They lived in peace , in many places closely mingled together , and to many the distinctions meant little anyway . |
| 15 | For all the horrors of the second world war , they lived in peace under Tito . |
| 16 | They lived in peace . |
| 17 | They lived in filth and fed on shit and vomit and rotting flesh . |
| 18 | But they lived in hope that they might be so blessed . |
| 19 | At first they lived in hope , I think , they were willing Hamilton to be wrong , they needed it to be their man . |
| 20 | Hence gangs of navvies ( mainly Irish ) were set to work on the task of excavation and works ; they lived in mud huts , huts which would only offer the most primitive shelter from the elements . |
| 21 | They lived in mud houses without electricity or water , revelling in the glory of the mission . |
| 22 | They lived in drying-out river beds , thus getting used to deoxygenating environs . |
| 23 | But they did not earn a separate wage , they lived in effect in a mainly cashless society . |
| 24 | Financial support is perhaps the most accessible to documentation , although even this is not always clear , especially for the great majority of the population who did not codify their financial support for kin through wills and settlements , simply because they lived from hand to mouth . |
| 25 | They told people for years that they lived like brother and sister — but no-one believed them . |