Example sentences of "lived in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of these creatures lived in a protective tube . |
| 2 | Surrounded by pianos , friends and eclectic clutter , Sir Lennox Berkeley and his wife Freda lived in a late Georgian house in Little Venice until his death last Christmas . |
| 3 | He lived in a good loose-box , and was let out to water twice a day . |
| 4 | The men of the ship 's company lived in a makeshift hut for ten months , and then took to their boats for the homeward passage , reaching Novaya Zemlya , where they met the Hope , commanded by Sir Allen W. Young [ q.v. ] , who had been sent to find them . |
| 5 | Her imagination conjured up a vision of the young , ambitious Lucenzo , struggling to study for his banking exams and to stay smart amid the chaos caused when a wife and several children lived in a cramped apartment . |
| 6 | The Heathertons lived in a tall grey house in Bath Street , in the best quarter of town ; it had coachman 's premises at the back , giving on to a narrow cobbled lane . |
| 7 | We lived in a tall , narrow Victorian house , which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war , when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat . |
| 8 | Bartlemas had an enormous private income , and the pair of them lived in a tall Victorian house in Islington , which was filled to the brim with play-bills , prints , prompt copies , figurines and other souvenirs of their two heroes . |
| 9 | During Hannah 's childhood and well beyond , Dalesfolk lived in a closed world where to travel more than a dozen miles from the farmstead was an unusual adventure the wireless a strange and suspicious device from foreign parts and a local newspaper something of an occasional luxury . |
| 10 | Mrs Bahia lived in a neighbouring house . |
| 11 | A similar gender difference was apparent in the time spent helping someone who lived in a separate household ; here 32 per cent of women but only 22 per cent of men spent ten hours or more each week on care-giving ( Green , 1988 , p. 21 ) . |
| 12 | Mosley also lived in a private world where there was leisure and a sense of fun . |
| 13 | These three ladies , now in their seventies , lived in a Georgian doll 's house in Lulling 's High Street . |
| 14 | But we lived in a middle-class neighbourhood and I met with a lot of disapproval . |
| 15 | If Ah lived in a clapped-out city like this with inflation at two hundred per cent , or whatever it is , Ah 'd dae just about anythin' fur payment in solid US dollars . ’ |
| 16 | We lived in a gentler age . |
| 17 | Stuart Pascoe lived in a spacious house not far from Canterbury Cathedral with a garden that swung down to a river . |
| 18 | ' However eager sceptical Victorians might be to replace the superstitious world of their forefathers with a structure that seemed to them more solid and more rational , the alternative , namely that they lived in a meaningless world of chance , was repellent to many of them . |
| 19 | All in all , in 1975 it was estimated that some 145,000 persons lived in a mobile home of some type . |
| 20 | They lived in a double-decker apartment in Adelphi Terrace that had been Charlotte 's home before her marriage . |
| 21 | Each of us lived in a concrete box , nine feet long and six feet wide , with walls one and a half foot thick , and 14 air holes . |
| 22 | We lived in a three-bedroomed council house , one of the bedrooms being little more than a boxroom , and by this time there were seven of us in the family . |
| 23 | My cousin Ibrahim lived in a two-storey house a few hundred metres away , just beyond the Tel Aviv–Jaffa port railway line . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In his opinion , they would make peace on almost any terms , they were shot through with cowardice , they lived in a perpetual funk . |
| 26 | Miss Hayes , who lived in a 21-room Victorian house overlooking the Hudson River at Nyack , acted in her first professional role at the age of six . |
| 27 | She lived in a one-bedroomed flat , four floors up in a tower block . |
| 28 | Coaches on the way to Hastings made their last stop for horses at Battle 's George Hotel , where the ostler lived in a tiny cottage which still stands in the yard , to be roused by the bell outside his front door . |
| 29 | For a week , while the ship was stored and watered and fresh livestock taken aboard , Sara lived in a strange no-man's-land of emotion in which she alternated between boiling excitement at what lay ahead and abject dolours at the thought of leaving Ireland . |
| 30 | She lived in a thirties block |