Example sentences of "they lived in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most Nonconformists were genuinely distressed at the changing character of the Established Church ; whatever they might say to the contrary , they lived in the shadow of ‘ the establishment ’ and continued to feel a certain proprietary if illogical interest in the Church . |
| 2 | Although single-celled organisms are obviously simpler than complex animals like ourselves , many single-celled organisms have continued to evolve actively since they lived in the ‘ primaeval soup ’ . |
| 3 | The RSDLP should be reorganized as a federal party , with the Bund being recognized as the sole representative of Jewish workers and the party programme promising ‘ personal cultural autonomy ’ ( that is , all Jewish workers , regardless of where they lived in the empire , would be members of a national Jewish association , responsible for all Jewish educational and cultural affairs ) . |
| 4 | They seemed strangely modern , suggestively effective as a sculpture by Picasso ; they lived in the now . |
| 5 | The action project began on 1 April 1984 and any people aged 65 or over who were referred to the hospital psychogeriatric service during the 12 months to the end of March 1985 and who were diagnosed as suffering from dementia , became members of the action sample if they lived in the action area , and of the control sample if their home was in the control area ( so long as they were not living permanently in an institution at the time of referral and they or their carers gave consent for their inclusion ) . |
| 6 | I used to take them home on quite a number of occasions if I 'd known that they lived in the immediate vicinity . |
| 7 | Rauschning , though he hardly seems to have understood , could complain about the Gauleiter 's lifestyle precisely because they lived in the Free City . |
| 8 | They lived in the same apartment block and often dined together , creating unfounded rumours that they were having an affair . |
| 9 | She said : ‘ I never thought to enjoy a book about a foreign country so much ’ — she liked the expatriates , because they lived in the past . |
| 10 | They lived in the tiny village of Croud Cantle , nestling in the heart of the Hampshire Downs . |
| 11 | So they lived in the world before we became a people . ’ |
| 12 | They lived in the Turkish quarter and in outward appearance resembled the Turks , although their religious and cultural life was very different from that of their neighbours . |
| 13 | For the rest of their lives they lived in the forest . |
| 14 | His father , his my grandfather , was a groom , and er they lived in the erm in the Abbey grounds , in the courtyard of the stables . |
| 15 | Young people , black people and men were more at risk from burglary , particularly if they lived in the Mildmay area For theft from the person , women are in general more at risk than men , blacks are more likely to be victimised than whites and the risk of victimisation decreases with age . |
| 16 | Samuel was the more prolific pamphleteer , but according to Edwards , mother and son collaborated closely , ‘ the one inditing and the other writing ’ , and they lived in the same house at least until the end of 1652 . |
| 17 | Er , oh yes , they lived in the station next you see . |
| 18 | Whatever the anxieties of the superpowers and the world 's energy-consuming community , there were others whose concern was at least comparable , as they lived in the Gulf . |
| 19 | In fact the nomes got on rather well with the local rats , probably because their leader was Bobo , who had been a pet of Angalo 's when they lived in the Store . |
| 20 | The knowledge they seek is experiential , and they lived in the expectation of a final reality which must inevitably be in itself a judgement on the existential awareness of it at a human level . |
| 21 | So they lived in the house |
| 22 | They lived in the basement . |
| 23 | That 's right , they lived in the basement . |
| 24 | They bought half excuse me half of it and they lived in the basement , then the other half came up for sale so Peter bought the whole lot then |
| 25 | There was a Mr and Mrs , Stephen was and there was a Mr and Mrs , the caretakers , and they lived in the third floor of a flat there . |