Example sentences of "lived a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This arose because although the site was nearly ideal for our purposes , right in the middle there stood a small cottage in which lived a retired shepherd , Amos Chatfield . |
| 2 | The smaller resident landowners lived a simple life and were , like the Basque nobility , interested in the reform movement of the late eighteenth century and supplied many of its leaders . |
| 3 | The boy was so far from being ill-used or closely confined that he apparently lived a normal life , at least within the walls , going and coming much as he pleased , and eating in hall like a member of the household . |
| 4 | Her nephew , Tim , was Miss Miggs 's only relative , and he lived a long way away up in the North . |
| 5 | Although she lived a long way from the town , she seldom missed Brownie Pack Meeting . |
| 6 | They lived a long way away , but they decided to take a weeks holiday in Cornwall and decided to see Daryl in the middle of it . |
| 7 | People lived a long time with fluid … asthma … emphysema … years . |
| 8 | A lot of people seem to refer to Jesus as a good man who lived a long time ago ; a man who taught about God and who became ‘ Son of God ’ by his resurrection . |
| 9 | Men lived a long time on Tarvaras . |
| 10 | ‘ It does n't matter — just someone who lived a long time ago — best forgotten . ’ |
| 11 | He lived a great deal in his fantasies and he enjoyed these . |
| 12 | It sometimes meant he lived a hectic life , especially when the band were playing far from Leeds . |
| 13 | you lived a young life did n't you ? |
| 14 | If his public life was typical of the Whig grandees of his day , Wharton lived a private life ( at least in his head ) that was bizarre in the extreme . |
| 15 | Therefore , in the bleak aftermath of war , he lived a hand-to-mouth existence in the less attractive areas of London . |
| 16 | By the time of Jesus , those Jews who lived a good distance from Jerusalem were required only to make the pilgrimage at Passover . |
| 17 | For seven years , Safarimoja kept track of the cassava , transplanting it to various places as he lived a nomadic hunting life . |
| 18 | And for two years Pula lived a luxurious life , safe behind a high fence , feeding on imported peanuts , strawberry yoghurt , and fresh vegetables . |
| 19 | In Mongu Town , where I was born , there lived a merry maid , up high in banana tree ! ’ |
| 20 | As the afternoon wore on he began to look unhappy , muttered to Dr Neil that he might have supposed that his cousin James would forget to come — he lived a busy life , after all . |
| 21 | That 's why he lived a lonely life and locked all his doors so carefully . |
| 22 | But Marje , we discovered last week , lived a double life for over 20 years , privately despising her husband while publicly referring to him as ‘ Proopsie ’ . |
| 23 | Now Jackson lived a solitary existence . |
| 24 | Sadie lived a solitary life for about three years without even the company of other dogs . |
| 25 | He ended up in the village of Hampole near Doncaster , where he became the spiritual director of the local anchoress Margaret Kirkby , who lived a solitary life in a cell next to the Church , and the nuns of the enclosed Cistercian convent . |
| 26 | Now God loves the world , he sent Jesus to die for the world , Jesus came , he lived a sinless life , he gave his life on the cross of Calvary , he died there for my sins they were put on him , the whole story of salvation but , salvation in it 's totality is God 's gift , I do not have to merit it . |
| 27 | They lived a reclusive life and were hardly ever seen . |
| 28 | The Cagots lived a peculiar life outside society , without rights but exempt from taxes , wearing a badge on their clothing to indicate their standing , forbidden to walk barefoot , unable to hear mass with their fellow Christians . |
| 29 | The Victorian poet Algernon Swinburne lived a tortured sex life , heavily influenced by the beatings he received at Eton ( where it was said the boys were required to sprinkle eau de cologne on themselves before the canings began ) . |
| 30 | In a third house lived a deserted woman — " her husband lives from her " ; she had two children out at service but had five still living at home . |