Example sentences of "who live [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who lived with a younger married couple were about five times less likely to receive a home-help visit than an elderly married couple . |
| 2 | A contemporary of Gundulić was Junije Palmotić ( 1606–57 ) , a Ragusan noble who lived for a time in Bosnia , and who drew upon the Slav folk tales as well as on contemporary Italian and ancient classical traditions for the abundant outpouring of songs , satires , verse epics and dramas which he composed . |
| 3 | But the most pathetic of all was the fourth widow , Mrs Shepman , aged eighty and in poor health , who lived as a lodger . |
| 4 | After coming into caddying quite late in life — when he was thirty years old — Nick , who used to be a baseball player and was ‘ quite good at it ’ , perfected his catching trick with his first professional , George Archer , who lived on a farm . |
| 5 | And Elizabeth Williams , who lived at a time when universities were so enlightened that they would actually permit women to sit examinations ( but not , alas , be awarded a degree ) . |
| 6 | At sixteen they had her married to a cousin who lived about a mile away . |
| 7 | A dwelling unit , nothing more , something that was right for a girl that was alone , right for a girl who lived without a man . |
| 8 | She looked at the woman , this woman who was her mother , this woman who lived behind a façade , who would n't let her husband into her bed and had caused him to take a mistress . |
| 9 | This was a wicked demon who lived beneath a primordial swamp , in which seethed evil beings and spirits . |
| 10 | He was a tall , handsome and courteous man who lived in a Surrey farmhouse with off-white walls , limed oak furniture , Eric Gill sculptures and giant-leaved zimmer lindens . |
| 11 | That night I walked part of my way home with one of the other pupils , who lived in a group of houses a short distance from the school . |
| 12 | ‘ Harry ’ had a paddock full of mares who lived in a semi wild state , receiving little handling and no extra feed . |
| 13 | The two other mares who lived in a paddock , took longer to solve the problem — one pawed the bucket out with her hoof , and the other removed it with her mouth . |
| 14 | Matthew Robinson , who lived in a lodging house for social security tenants in Keyham , Plymouth , Devon , was discovered by his brother Jason , nine — who had slept the night in the bunk above him — at 8.30am on Wednesday . |
| 15 | When we first fished Sweethope in 1973 , it was owned by Vaux Breweries , Sunderland , and managed by a retired naval officer who lived in a house by the side of the lough . |
| 16 | In his pre-sponsorship days he used to be known as ‘ the surfer who lived in a car ’ ; in France he had a tent on the beach . |
| 17 | Old Granny Fordham , who lived in a lonely cottage on the Enderley estate , could n't afford luxuries like butter and eggs , and could n't easily get to the shops in the village , so it would be doing a real service to take Mrs. Grant 's gift to her . |
| 18 | What appeared to be the most damaging evidence had been provided by an old man called Christopher Tricky , who lived in a hovel near the dog pound at Alfoxden park gate : |
| 19 | Like the woman famed in the bairns ' rhyme , ‘ who lived in a shoe , and had so many children she did not know what to do , ’ Martha in her Boat-house kept so many lodgers — the cooking of meals , making of beds , and washing of linen for such a host made her often remark , ‘ I have so much wark , I dinna know what to do first ; ’ and then she had a husband to work for . |
| 20 | The call on Sanders elicited the information that the client in question had been a Herr Fedorov , who lived in a large house just north of the village . |
| 21 | Frederick , a man of limited imagination who thought himself to be the very model of a modern enlightened despot and who had travelled in Poland in his younger years , believed that the Polish nobles and gentry were fools and madmen , deluded Catholic warmongers who lived in a perpetual fog of political weakness and drunken anarchy . |
| 22 | There was an Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe , taken from Nursery Rhymes by Tracey Boyd . |
| 23 | For The Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe , buy or make a long cake such as a swiss roll and cut about four inches off the end . |
| 24 | When she was eight or nine years old , Myra had spent part of the summer holiday with her grandmother , who lived in a old schoolhouse in a small country village . |
| 25 | And Juan — as Alejandro ( who as one who lived in a glass house and was in no position to hurl polo balls ) pointed out — might well have died of sexual excess . |
| 26 | It was a generous and bubbling woman called Meg who lived in a caravan and whom Lee had met through the Labour Party and liked enormously . |
| 27 | In an effort to remedy matters , Harriet decided to seek assistance from a tin miner 's family who lived in a small cottage a mile or so inland . |
| 28 | She told me of her children , of how life had changed in Oman once the old Sultan had gone and the new Sultan began to rule , of the Sultan 's mother who was ‘ covered in gold from her neck to her waist ’ and who lived in a palace in the city of Salalah . |
| 29 | Our builder suggested a lady whom he referred to as ‘ Barney ’ , who lived in a nearby village and had holiday cottages of her own . |
| 30 | There was an Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe , taken from Nursery Rhymes by Tracey Boyd . |