Example sentences of "lived [prep] [det] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rufus had simply not known who he was , Shiva was sure of that , had not recognized him as one of the other two male members of the little community in which they had all lived in such contiguity for something like two months . |
| 2 | They are a very old family who have lived in that house for centuries , as you can see from their name on the stone over the front door . |
| 3 | The wisdom of closing mental hospitals over recent decades has been a topic for increased debate , not only because of the impact that such closures have on the people who have lived in those hospitals for many years , but also because of the loss of such resources to younger people with long-term mental health problems . |
| 4 | I have lived in this country for seven years . |
| 5 | I am thirty years old and have lived in this country for twenty-one years . |
| 6 | I am eleven-and-a-half years old and have lived in this country for two years . |
| 7 | It seems that he speaks no English although he has lived in this country for some time ; he is in fact Italian by birth . |
| 8 | I have come to see you because that Mr R said to my son ‘ If you do n't like it here then go back where you came from and where you belong ’ and I was so upset at that because my son was born here and I have lived in this country for over twenty years and how dare he say that , because my son comes from here . |
| 9 | I have not lived in this country for ten long years . ’ |
| 10 | I 've lived in this area for 25 years . |
| 11 | She had lived in this flat for two years now , working as a secretary in the City , recovering from her life as a war victim , wanting only peace and freedom from her jealous , possessive father and her jealous , possessive uncle . |
| 12 | What happened is at the beginning of last year , Yvonne said to me er , we have lived in this house for three years , we must decorate it . |
| 13 | No one had lived on that hillside for nineteen centuries . |
| 14 | But the grey-haired proprietress is adamant : ‘ I 've lived over this shop for years , and I 'm not moving now . ’ |