Example sentences of "lived [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prenzlauer Berg was one of the most deprived and crime-ridden areas of East Berlin , a haven for the criminals who lived off the poor and an ideal proving ground for the young officer . |
| 2 | According to Moschion , who lived about the third century BC but wrote in the spirit of a century or two earlier , it was due to Time — ‘ the begetter and nurturer of all things ’ — that ‘ The earth , once barren , began to be ploughed by yoked oxen , towered cities arose , men built sheltering homes and turned their lives from savage ways to civilized . ’ |
| 3 | She also lived through the appalling 1982 massacres in the Sabra and Shatila camps . |
| 4 | If you lived through the second world war you 'll recognise the sound of the air raid bell . |
| 5 | Many of the pieces were purchased by Dubosc in Japan where he lived for the latter part of his life and much of his collection is now in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco . |
| 6 | I lived for the six weeks almost as one of the Community except that I did not sleep at the Manor . |
| 7 | Here we lived for the next fifteen years , with the eighteenth-century kirk across the road , and from my study window at the front a clear thirty-mile view across the Tweed valley to the distant Cheviots . |
| 8 | Freud moved from Vienna in 1938 , when the Nazis took over , and lived for the last year of his life in London . |
| 9 | But although they lived as the only intellectual representatives of their own language in so small a place as Rapallo , they were not destined to decrease each other 's mental loneliness . |
| 10 | Aristotle , who lived during the 4th century BC , said that there was a fundamental ‘ living principle ’ — or ‘ life force ’ — that distinguished living from nonliving material . |
| 11 | The display will also be seen in Shetland , where MacDiarmid lived during the thirties . |
| 12 | On the right is the entrance to Newington Crescent where Nicholson and Maule lived during the 1850s . |
| 13 | A national income survey also released in March showed that 29.2 per cent of the population in 1987-88 lived below the official poverty line ( consumption of some US$11 per month ) , as compared with 43.8 per cent a decade earlier . |
| 14 | In The last Country Houses , a book which documents the death of the old tradition of hospitality , Clive Aslett records the response of a nouveau riche lady when told that some pleasant people lived near the rural seat her husband had just acquired . |
| 15 | So too , the world 's greatest legendary hero , Robin Hood , once lived amongst the green glades of Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire . |
| 16 | Laslett in turn has been challenged for ignoring the effects of the life-cycle in altering family size through generations , for by-passing evidence which suggests that other kin lived with the conjugal unit , and for rejecting changing ideologies of the family . |
| 17 | Observing her as a well-balanced and apparently fulfilled woman , it surprised me to discover that she still lived with the unexorcised ghosts of a disrupted childhood . |
| 18 | Alex was made a ward of court but lived with the Demetrious . |
| 19 | Before that , she lived with the old Lord Chamberlain . |
| 20 | And the peedie fairy came back and lived with the old wife been afore . |
| 21 | When you lived with the old man . |
| 22 | Tonight she had said nothing , so Frankie almost believed himself safe , yet he lived with the constant fear that one night she would make a horrible mistake and he would walk to his death in the inky shadows upstairs . |
| 23 | Not all of the émigrés from Eastern Europe were so fortunate as Goma and Tanase , who lived with the constant threat of assassination at least until Christmas 1989 . |
| 24 | Notwithstanding experience and observation , she was still somewhere inside her convinced that if a man and a woman lived under the same roof , even if the roof covered a very large area , they would soon be cohabiting in a sexual sense . |
| 25 | The Kaszubian people who lived along the western Danzig suburbs were badly affected by the changes of Prussian and German rule . |
| 26 | They were , after all , Soviet citizens , who lived in the Soviet Union , not Russia or Kirghizia as it used to be called . |
| 27 | After the Civil War ended in 1939 Ibárruri lived in the Soviet Union and was leader of the PCE in exile , first as secretary-general in 1942 and then as president from 1960 . |
| 28 | Martha was not the only child who lived in the highest settlement , but she was the only one who was ordered to school each day . |
| 29 | Nothing lived in the entire village , and there was no sign of what had caused the deaths . |
| 30 | Shallow cores show that the pebbly sands and clays that came originally came from the ice-sheet contain shells that lived in the shallower waters of the continental shelf . |