Example sentences of "lived [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had an agent , they said , who lived close to where he had lived during the short period after his return from Canada . |
| 2 | Peggy had lived for a long time with an aunt while her daddy and mummy were abroad , and she had been spoilt by always getting her own way . |
| 3 | There the Millers may have lived for a short while . |
| 4 | Talking straight to the hard-core men , he said , ‘ I want to apologise as an Englishmen for the way I have lived as a white man . |
| 5 | I have lived through a long nightmare and am shattered by what was done to me . |
| 6 | ‘ I feel as if , by the time I retire , I shall have lived through the entire life-cycle of post-war higher education . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They had both lived through the great period of modern literature and had survived its passing : they were in a sense foreigners , out of joint with their time . |
| 9 | The generations of Marxists who have lived through the grievous experience of Fascism and who , in another order of things , have experienced Stalinist degeneration , appraise the concept of democracy in a different way [ from Lenin ] , and not in opposition to socialism and communism , but as a road towards them and as a main component of them . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The cats in question have never lived near the new home and do not have any knowledge of the new locality . |
| 12 | Anyone who has seen or lived near an opencast coal mining site will understand and agree with a statement which appeared in the First Report of the House of Commons Energy Committee ( 1986–87 ) : ‘ We agree with the CPRE that ‘ opencast mining is one of the most environmentally destructive processes being carried out in the UK ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ And of course Julius has lived like an absolute monk for the last four years , ’ Jessamy threw back at her angrily . |
| 14 | They seem , in the months that followed , to have lived with a new intensity , half-knowing that their shared joy in creativity and friendship might never be repeated . |
| 15 | Those who have lived with a large refrigerator on board their yacht in sunnier climes will remember what a bother it is to have to run the engine for an hour every day to keep the drinks cold and the food fresh . |
| 16 | Missionaries who have lived with a cultural expression of the gospel adapted to their own context have to divest the message of that cultural adaptation and seek to introduce the gospel in a form which is culturally appropriate to the community in which they are seeking to communicate . |
| 17 | All the signatories were Christians , many were minor headmen and all already lived within the new reservation — except Jason and Timothy , who received provision to live among the whites . |
| 18 | If you have lived in a European Community country or any country whose social security system is linked to Britain 's by a reciprocal agreements , contributions or residence there may be counted towards your pension depending on the country concerned . |
| 19 | that people can make their o , they have a balanced education which allows them then to make their own choices about , that things are n't over , I mean if we 've lived in a patriarchal society in which men are in power and that kin , and male sexuality maybe has come through more in sex education , those have been the issues that have been co , ha have been given more importance and female issues have maybe been neglected a little bit and now erm , with Aids as a problem we do n't want to turn out and suddenly become really homo homophobic or really , you know , right condoms , condoms , it has to be you know , you need to kind of keep the balance so that people are given the information and then have the freedom to make the choice themselves . |
| 20 | In fact , ERPS has lived in a small corner of the works property since it took delivery of ex-Southern Railway 30828 4-6-0 the Maunsell development of the Urie S15 Class from Barry in March 1981 . |
| 21 | She replied that she had lived in a small group of about 10 people : she indicated the number by holding up both hands with the fingers spread . |
| 22 | We had always lived in a healthy country , where the mountains were high and the water was cold and clear . |
| 23 | On the day after the debate , Saturday , 19th February , ‘ Habitans in Sicco ’ wrote to The Times from what he called ‘ Broad Phylactery ’ , to ridicule the classical attitudes of the Opposition , and said that he had lived in a Broad Sanctuary house for three years and found that it possessed ‘ all the comforts and conveniences of any house in London ’ . |
| 24 | She was so much a daughter of the vicarage in accent , manner , and appearance ( her father had been a clergyman ) that without being told I had assumed , seeing evidence in Mrs Browning 's home that someone at some time had lived in a hot country , that her husband had been a missionary . |
| 25 | This is especially true of elderly people in mental handicap hospitals who have lived in a closed world all their lives . |
| 26 | It was the opposition of those whose careers were ruined — bankrupt restorations can not reward the victors and conciliate the vanquished — and of those who , having lived in a free society , could not tolerate the frustrations of an unfree society in which private criticism could not be translated into public action . |
| 27 | She has been the guardian of this wishing tree in the English churchyard since anyone alive can remember , though before that , the rumour was that she had lived in a wild state , before the islands were properly civilised . |
| 28 | For many it is a strange and difficult experience , one which people who have always lived in a nuclear family find hard to understand . |
| 29 | But , since glasnost , they have lived in a different world . |
| 30 | Therefore , someone who lives in a bungalow and has lived in a high radon area since birth is the most likely person to suffer . |