Example sentences of "had lived in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to her now that she had lived in a dream . |
| 2 | Modesty Blaise had lived in a penthouse , and Travis McGee lived on a boat called the Busted Flush . |
| 3 | Simon Templar had lived in a mews . |
| 4 | But those least likely to have spent time in a hospital or hospice or to die in one were those who had lived in a nursing home for a year or more . |
| 5 | Imagine if Colette or Jane Austen or Dorothy Parker or Chaucer or Shakespeare or Marcel Proust had lived in a world without gossip ! |
| 6 | ‘ I understand , ’ said Snizort , who had lived in a world where entire civilisations had been lost and who had spent his life searching for fragments of them . |
| 7 | Since their wedding 5 years ago she and husband Mark had lived in a caravan at nearby Fulbrook . |
| 8 | I had lived in a motor car for a few years and the rediscovery of my legs was painful . |
| 9 | When he 'd first arrived he had lived in a succession of bedsitting rooms on the west side , for which he had been charged extortionate rents by landlords who he never met ; the third night after coming to The Bar for the first time he had slept with someone who knew of someone who had a spare room at a much more reasonable price , and Boy had moved in . |
| 10 | But she had lived with a dragon for over ten years , and she had lived in a house filled with strong women , so she knew that there was something very wrong with that scenario . |
| 11 | Her father had been an equerry to the Queen and to King George VI before that ; and before her grandfather died in 1975 and her father became the Eighth Earl Spencer and moved to Althorp , the family had lived in a house on the Sandringham Estate . |
| 12 | Paul had been brought up by his mother with whom he had lived in a flat behind Broadcasting House . |
| 13 | Miss Hughes had lived in a flat underneath the deceased 's own rooms at 150B , High Street . |
| 14 | During the party leadership contest much emphasis had been placed in the media on the fact that Major had not had the advantage of a privileged home background or education , that his father had once been a trapeze artist , that his family had lived in a flat in Brixton in South London , and that he had left school at 16 and been unemployed for some time . |
| 15 | Since the Revolution of 1830 , this group had lived in a sort of internal emigration , rejoicing in the fall of one usurper and awaiting with undiminished confidence the inevitable departure of his successor . |