Example sentences of "had lived [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The petitioner still had to prove breakdown by demonstrating one ( or more ) of the following ‘ facts ’ : that the respondent had committed adultery ; that the respondent had behaved in such a way that the petitioner could not reasonably be expected to live with the respondent ; that the respondent had deserted the petitioner for a continuous period of at least two years ; that the parties had lived apart for a continuous period of at least two years and that the respondent consented to a decree being granted ; or that the parties had lived apart for a continuous period of at least five years . |
| 2 | The petitioner still had to prove breakdown by demonstrating one ( or more ) of the following ‘ facts ’ : that the respondent had committed adultery ; that the respondent had behaved in such a way that the petitioner could not reasonably be expected to live with the respondent ; that the respondent had deserted the petitioner for a continuous period of at least two years ; that the parties had lived apart for a continuous period of at least two years and that the respondent consented to a decree being granted ; or that the parties had lived apart for a continuous period of at least five years . |
| 3 | The Rossmaynes had lived there since the sixteenth century , the house stubbornly resisting the elements which tried to erode its walls . |
| 4 | My destination was Welcombe in North Devon , a place introduced to me by Nigel , who had lived there during the early part of the war . |
| 5 | It was a long while since she had visited her old home , and longer still since she had lived there as a girl . |
| 6 | These neighbours had lived there for a number of years ; they knew Mrs Browning well , and what they told my husband made us feel rather small , and very inexperienced . |
| 7 | The first was occupied by Miss Trimby , the last of a family that had lived there for a long time whilst her neighbours were Mr. & Mrs. Collins with their middle-aged bachelor son . |
| 8 | However , there were two big differences : Whites had more in privately rented accommodation and had lived there for a shorter time ; these areas contained only 6 per cent . |
| 9 | After we had lived there for a few years , we wanted to buy it and do it up , so we asked my College for a mortgage . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , prior to our moving in , 27 cats had lived there with a professor of history and his wife who were a little eccentric . |
| 11 | As they walked through the lamplight of the Ropewalk , Maxim noticed a small incised plaque to Lord Macaulay , who had lived there in the 1840s . |
| 12 | In the past the people of Elling had lived communally in a series of longhouses that were not , as now , separated into single family dwellings . |
| 13 | They had lived together for a long time , but the sister was now reaching the conclusion that the situation could not continue much longer : |
| 14 | ‘ The woman involved was a married woman with a family and she and Philip had lived together for a couple of months but she decided to go back to her husband in September . ’ |
| 15 | Two men had escaped the inrush but had been trapped in a long section of roadway ; they had lived together in the pitch dark and freezing cold for about 8 days , until overcome by poisonous gas ; there was no way in which they could have been saved in time had their position been known . |
| 16 | In my teens I had lived precariously on the lip of first class rugby by virtue of knowing every trick in the canon , evil and otherwise , by being a bad bad loser , but chiefly and perhaps only because I was very nippy off the mark . |
| 17 | Denktash argued that UN proposals would mean that 40,000 Turkish Cypriots would be forced to leave homes they had lived in since the Turkish invasion of the island in 1974 . |