Example sentences of "still lived [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nation had also become economically and demographically stagnant : heavy industrial production lagged behind Britain and Germany , nearly a third of people still lived off the land , and in 1940 the population ( at about 40 million ) was little larger than it had been in 1900 . |
| 2 | Jem still lived at home — was that why Lucy had no lovers ? |
| 3 | Which could be quite a bit as they all still lived at home with their mums and dads . |
| 4 | Many of his young friends still lived at home under the watchful eyes of their mothers and needed a place to take their mistresses . |
| 5 | Places had not changed much and the family still lived at Temple Stephen in Derbyshire . |
| 6 | However , in less prosperous areas the large exactions were , for many , such a burden that they still lived at subsistence level . |
| 7 | She still lived at home , handing the meagre amount of money on which she was supposed to have managed to her mother . |
| 8 | One of Ibrahim 's former Jewish tenants still lived on the second floor . |
| 9 | If the Syrians moved to a coordinated plan , their potential Palestinian opponents still lived on their emotions . |
| 10 | It was the grandfather who had founded the school , and he still lived on the premises . |
| 11 | John himself was in no hurry to get married , he still lived with his mother in a small working man 's house in Moss Side and enjoyed a good social life . |
| 12 | At the root of his lifestyle was pots of money , treated almost entirely as disposable income , given that he still lived with his parents . |
| 13 | Nothing like this had ever happened while Cedric still lived with Dorothy ! |
| 14 | The network of health and social work support she had enjoyed fell away , but she led a full life and drove her own car , though she still lived with her parents . |
| 15 | Observing her as a well-balanced and apparently fulfilled woman , it surprised me to discover that she still lived with the unexorcised ghosts of a disrupted childhood . |
| 16 | I know we have all heard of cases where someone has smoked sixty cigarettes a day and still lived to a ripe old age — but is it really worth taking the chance ? |
| 17 | The result of all this was that , although at the end of the century a third of the population still lived below the poverty line and the diet of the poorest included items such as white bread , condensed milk , and vegetable oil margarine , the earnings of a Lancashire cotton operative in 1913 permitted him ‘ a breakfast of coffee or tea , bread , bacon and eggs — when eggs are cheap — a dinner of potatoes and beef , an evening meal of tea , bread and butter , cheap vegetables or fish , and a slight supper at moderate price ’ . |
| 18 | In Robert Roberts 's farming family this seems to have been the accepted practice on both sides : later on , as a young farm servant , he went to work for an uncle where his mother 's parents still lived in the farmhouse . |
| 19 | Mr D. Davidson turned out to be Alec 's father and after I had identified myself as an old school-friend of Alec 's — I allowed myself a little poetic licence in this description — he confirmed that Alec still lived in Strondonald . |
| 20 | The weakness still lived in his body but his urge to draw was reviving , he could feel it . |
| 21 | The comrades Honecker , Zhivkov , and above all , Ceauşescu himself , still lived in a mental world shaped by both Stalin 's dreams and his cynical realism . |
| 22 | It was no good , she thought , for Signor Fixit to pretend that he still lived in the age of Just William . |
| 23 | I heard the news from a guy I knew who still lived in the village . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's evolution ; when we still lived in caves we used to go out and hunt and whoever brought back the mammoth or whatever ate the best meat and got to fuck the women , and all that was good for the human race . |
| 25 | You 're always saying you wished you still lived in the country . |
| 26 | But Mesopotamia and Egypt still lived in a world which had been built in the second millennium upon the power of monarchy — the divinely protected monarchy of Mesopotamia and the divine monarchy of Egypt . |
| 27 | Just possibly , Justine still lived in Geneva ; but in Chapuis she was now one with Shelley 's dead , marching underground … |
| 28 | Yet in 1950 four fifths of Turkey 's 20 million people still lived in villages , and practiced agriculture in family enterprises . |
| 29 | After her reception in the village store , she was not keen to go back with further questions to establish that Veronica still lived in the Red House . |
| 30 | In 1801 most English people still lived in a rural environment ; only one person in every three lived in a town and most of those towns were small by modern standards . |