Example sentences of "[pron] lived in [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them lived in a rented house , while the Taiwan Ten took over the garage and yard . |
| 2 | Without turning round he said in a harsh voice : ‘ If you want to know about Inez , Mr Wycliffe , you must ask Sara , the two of them lived in the same house for nearly twelve years . |
| 3 | What had originated as a spontaneous civilian outburst now began to be depicted in the international media as a revolt by Iraq 's majority Shia community , most of whom lived in the southern part of the country . |
| 4 | The report showed that there were between 27,000,000 and 35,000,000 blind people in the world , over 90 per cent of whom lived in the developing world , mostly in rural areas . |
| 5 | Nothing lived in the entire village , and there was no sign of what had caused the deaths . |
| 6 | I lived in a small village in Essex with my sister , who was over twenty years older than me , and married to Joe Gargery , the village blacksmith . |
| 7 | Finances were riding along the crest of a slump and I lived in a one-room penthouse in Bakers Arms , Leyton ( on top of the opticians ) . |
| 8 | ‘ I lived in a large house converted into flats . |
| 9 | I lived in a different house , read different books , played different games and so on , and , despite various efforts , could not become popular . |
| 10 | And I lived in a back-to-back houses , and concrete floors , no no carpets on . |
| 11 | ‘ I lived in the same house as him once . |
| 12 | " The skeleton of a micro-organism which lived in the ancient seas from which the chalk in the putty was deposited . |
| 13 | Now there was once a Queen , who might have been thought to have everything she could desire in the world , but had set her heart on a strange silent bird a traveller had told of , which lived in the snowy mountains , nested only once , raised its gold and silver chick , sang once only , and then faded like snow in the lowlands . |
| 14 | The rooks and crows which lived in the decaying stumps of the castle 's high towers could talk ; they had been given the voices of Quiss and Ajayi 's respective rivals , unfaithful lovers and hated superiors . |
| 15 | If Ah lived in a clapped-out city like this with inflation at two hundred per cent , or whatever it is , Ah 'd dae just about anythin' fur payment in solid US dollars . ’ |
| 16 | A similar gender difference was apparent in the time spent helping someone who lived in a separate household ; here 32 per cent of women but only 22 per cent of men spent ten hours or more each week on care-giving ( Green , 1988 , p. 21 ) . |
| 17 | Frederick , a man of limited imagination who thought himself to be the very model of a modern enlightened despot and who had travelled in Poland in his younger years , believed that the Polish nobles and gentry were fools and madmen , deluded Catholic warmongers who lived in a perpetual fog of political weakness and drunken anarchy . |
| 18 | In an effort to remedy matters , Harriet decided to seek assistance from a tin miner 's family who lived in a small cottage a mile or so inland . |
| 19 | The call on Sanders elicited the information that the client in question had been a Herr Fedorov , who lived in a large house just north of the village . |
| 20 | Our builder suggested a lady whom he referred to as ‘ Barney ’ , who lived in a nearby village and had holiday cottages of her own . |
| 21 | At one point , one of the pupils renders ‘ … who lived in a pretty house with a large garden ’ as ‘ … who lived in a palace house with a little grandfather ’ . |
| 22 | She hesitated , remembering the large rambling house she 'd grown up in and the hours she had spent with Mrs Richards , their cook and housekeeper , who lived in a self-contained flat over the double garage . |
| 23 | When she was eight or nine years old , Myra had spent part of the summer holiday with her grandmother , who lived in a old schoolhouse in a small country village . |
| 24 | Old Granny Fordham , who lived in a lonely cottage on the Enderley estate , could n't afford luxuries like butter and eggs , and could n't easily get to the shops in the village , so it would be doing a real service to take Mrs. Grant 's gift to her . |
| 25 | But it was a time when the boy and his mother , who lived in a little cottage just outside the town , had to earn their living from growing their own vegetables and doing what they could to help other people in order to make a living . |
| 26 | He had three sons : James , a weaver , who lived in a little cottage without a chimney at Newton ; Jacob , a tailor of Brandwood who died young ; and Thomas , a labourer , who set up home in ‘ a poore pitifull hutt , built up to an old oake ’ at the side of Divlin Lane . |
| 27 | Pupils could select areas of a historical map , for example , and call up further screens of related data or sources — the census records of families who lived in a particular house , perhaps . |
| 28 | Martha was not the only child who lived in the highest settlement , but she was the only one who was ordered to school each day . |
| 29 | This view , named Nestorianism after Bishop Nestorius who lived in the fifth century , is still hinted at today . |
| 30 | The Buckinghamshire freeholders who lived in the immediate neighbourhood of the Tory local landowner , Sir John Verney , in fact also tended to poll in favour of the Whigs . |