Example sentences of "had lived [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rain fell heavily all day to add to the misery of people who came in the shop , many of whom had lived through the Great War , and told Anne some of the horrors of that time . |
| 2 | Within days of the allied liberation of Kuwait in late February [ see pp. 37982-90 ] it was evident that some Kuwaitis who had lived through the Iraqi occupation were disillusioned with the ruling Sabah family and were determined to demand political reforms . |
| 3 | They had an agent , they said , who lived close to where he had lived during the short period after his return from Canada . |
| 4 | However , if they had lived with the deceased , an unmarried partner 's children from a previous marriage or relationship might be able to prove they were dependent and obtain provision from the estate . |
| 5 | He , too , had lived with the Darwinian controversies and indulged in a similar backward projection . |
| 6 | Amazingly , they all had lived on the same street , and all had lived what one of these illustrious club-handlers estimated as a ‘ good wedge from one another ’ . |
| 7 | I had lived at the same place in Hampstead for over twenty years and so , as a sitting tenant , my rent was pretty cheap . |
| 8 | Her father had lived at the Old Parsonage at Wouldham and had 10 children . |
| 9 | In 1983 a hairy snail was discovered in the Thames marshes near Kew , where its ancestors had lived for the last 10,000 years . |
| 10 | Moreover she had changed trains three times , because it is an awkward , cross-country journey from Chetwynd Magna to St Petrock's-on-Sea , where the O'Briens had lived for the past six years . |
| 11 | Miss Gracie had been the last governess , a pale sad woman who had lived for the brief holidays she could get away to spend with a beloved brother and his family in Stirling . |
| 12 | But she had lived inside the Dark Realm for many months , she had been forced to see the terrible creatures that hold sway there , and she had been at Medoc 's mercy for all of that time . |
| 13 | Arnold Leese , its leader , was a member of the Britons and had gained a strong belief in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion as a result of contact with Arthur Kitson in Stamford , Lincolnshire , where Leese had lived in the 1920s . |
| 14 | After months of negotiations between the Russian , Chilean and German authorities the former East German leader , Erich Honecker , was flown on July 29 from Moscow ( where he had lived in the Chilean embassy since December 1991 — see pp. 38687-88 ; 38782 ) to Berlin where he was imprisoned . |
| 15 | She had lived in the lovely old building for twenty years and never had any desire to leave it or the grounds . |
| 16 | All the findings of opinion polls and other surveys suggested that the overwhelming majority of ordinary citizens were convinced that the period of their nation 's history through which they had lived in the forty-odd years since the end of the war in 1945 , was a time of comfort and content . |
| 17 | In the early days of their marriage they had lived in the very heart of London , close to the centres of business , art and culture . |
| 18 | Mrs Godwin and her husband had lived in the pictureque village of Spratton for the past four years . |
| 19 | Peter and Carol had lived in the same row of houses for 16 years . |
| 20 | At Abbotsfield itself he had lived in the same house as Kate for nearly a month . |
| 21 | He had kept the same job , they had lived in the same house , they had rented the same seaside bungalow for a summer holiday , year in year out . |
| 22 | Because his rights as a tenant were protected and because in any case the university did n't wish to be seen turfing out an elderly man whose family had lived in the same cottage for five generations , we left him in peace and build around him , as it were , expecting him perhaps to move elsewhere or maybe to pass away . |
| 23 | His sister had lived in the big gloomy house for such a little time . |
| 24 | As he thought this he felt in his heart a voiceless nameless twinge , like a tiny spark , which he chose to identify as a signal , which very rarely came through , from his ancestors who had lived in the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw . |
| 25 | The noted cleric had lived in the nearby vicarage and some of the features of that property are reflected in Edelson House , says its present owner and one-time Darlington cricketer , Mr Richard Carter . |
| 26 | It turned out that Anderson had lived in the last apartment that we 'd been in , moving out the day after we arrived . |
| 27 | Up to that time Parma had not been touched , and the Parmigiani had lived in the irrational hope that the Americans would not bomb the city because Toscanini , by then living in the United States , had persuaded them not to do so . |