Example sentences of "lived in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If challenged to justify why blacks are struck from the jury , prosecutors offer the most ridiculous reasons — ‘ he looked dumb ’ , ‘ he lived in the same part of town as the defendant ’ ( most blacks live in the same part of town ) , ‘ he was a mason and I was worried about masonic links ’ ( the prospective juror was a stone mason by profession ) . |
| 2 | Peter Ackroyd is all of the formidable pasticheur that he is praised for being , and Dyer 's tale , which affects to be that of someone who lived in the eighteenth century , and in which the element of imitation , present in writing of every kind , is more obtrusive than it is in the other tale , is the livelier of the two . |
| 3 | That evening Sid and I dined off piping hot oxtail soup , steak and kidney pie , followed by a very rich plum duff , all washed down with a bottle of French cider , given to us by the old Frenchman who lived in the cottage near the entrance to the orchard . |
| 4 | After breakfasting with the mortar team I made my way over to Brigade H.Q As I passed along the wall of the orchard I suddenly thought about the Frenchman and his family who lived in the cottage on the other side of the wall . |
| 5 | In january 1922 79.29 per cent of the entire population of the ex-Empire , estimated at 133,890,100 , lived in European Russia ; 77.3 per cent of all inhabitants lived in the countryside . |
| 6 | He lived in the town of Cambridge for more years of his life than in any other town , and this though he managed during his life to live in nine different towns and in one village . |
| 7 | Ramsey lived in the rooms of the bishop 's chaplain at the Castle while an architect put in central heating and clothed the walls in lighter paper . |
| 8 | The first thing that struck the other dons who lived in the Castle was his oddness . |
| 9 | ‘ His name was Charlie Mears ; he was the only son of his mother who was a widow , and he lived in the north of London , coming into the City every day to work in a bank . ’ |
| 10 | Until I was eight I lived in the village of Feltwell in Norfolk where there was a joint RAF and USAF base . |
| 11 | A lot of our family lived in the same road . |
| 12 | All magicians can be tested by laughter because corruption can not stand mockery ; and when his daughter laughed at him he drove her out into the wilderness , and she lived in the wilderness with the wild beasts and angels ministered to her . |
| 13 | A man inspecting the crosses around the regimental emblems outside Westminster Abbey lived in the East End during the Blitz . |
| 14 | In the seventeenth century , John Aubrey , Wiltshire 's first archaeologist , lived in the manor farm , and his name is inscribed on one of the church bells whose ringing he loved so . |
| 15 | Among his young parishioners was Whittington 's famous son , William Sturgeon , the physicist who lived in the cottage next to the Rectory and befriended the Horton family . |
| 16 | My parents lived in the big house and I built a studio and had a whole little place where I could live in the basement and it was very convenient , so David would come round there . ’ |
| 17 | A century ago , as many as 5000 belugas or white whales lived in the St Lawrence River in eastern Canada . |
| 18 | The burglars lived in the bluegums at the bottom of the estate . |
| 19 | Lots of things lived in the woods , all weathers . |
| 20 | After a hectic day on the circuit his owner would watch as Noddy returned to the pits , his face showing the strain of a life lived in the fast lane . |
| 21 | The desecration of the cave , a holy place for the Indians who lived in the Mojave Desert , caused an uproar . |
| 22 | Originally , Claudia and John Roberts lived in the top two floors of their tall , double-fronted end-of-terrace house , a walk away from London 's Regent 's Park and Primrose Hill . |
| 23 | Half lived in the South East of England . |
| 24 | As he lived in the city , Mr Coary drove me up to the Noones ’ for my bag and then took me all the way back to O'Brien 's Hotel in Dublin , where I had stayed long before . |
| 25 | Few people lived in the north the whole time and in the south a large proportion of the permanent residents were slaves . |
| 26 | Paternal authority was basic to the Zuwaya image , for loyalties depended on ancient domesticities : it was because your ancestors and his ancestors lived in the same household , under the same authority , that you owed another loyalty ( unless , as happened , you were in dispute with him , in which case those old fraternities marked the division between the two of you ) . |
| 27 | The shaikh Abdulrahman bu Riziq represented the rejectionist horn : he lived in the desert where an Italian policeman had been murdered , and took sardonic comfort from the reminder . |
| 28 | This worked as a strategy at least for as long as the persons involved lived in the same household and shared their resources . |
| 29 | Most Nonconformists were genuinely distressed at the changing character of the Established Church ; whatever they might say to the contrary , they lived in the shadow of ‘ the establishment ’ and continued to feel a certain proprietary if illogical interest in the Church . |
| 30 | They were , after all , Soviet citizens , who lived in the Soviet Union , not Russia or Kirghizia as it used to be called . |