Example sentences of "[pers pn] lived [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of them lived with a nervous expectation that it could happen to them . |
| 2 | Some of them lived in a rented house , while the Taiwan Ten took over the garage and yard . |
| 3 | For the first two months I lived with a French family in Fontainebleau and studied with a Commandant Lettaure , who was coaching fifteen other young Englishmen . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ I lived in a large house converted into flats . |
| 7 | I lived in a different house , read different books , played different games and so on , and , despite various efforts , could not become popular . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | In the country you lived as a social being and at the valuation of others . |
| 10 | Marie was sure that this was because he did n't want to make his family out as ‘ better ’ than hers : he knew she lived on a scruffy council estate with a bad reputation . |
| 11 | She was probably not born into the wild , but she lived as a feral dog . |
| 12 | She lived in a one-bedroom flat in St George 's Place as you may know those council flats . |
| 13 | She lived in a one-bedroomed flat , four floors up in a tower block . |
| 14 | She lived in a small house near ours and seemed very old to me ; but that was many years ago . |
| 15 | She lived in a top flat ‘ up a hell of a lot of stairs , and she used to have a parrot on top of the stairs . ’ |
| 16 | She lived in a big house in what they called the stockbroker belt , she had healthy and good-looking children , they took two holidays every year . |
| 17 | We lived on a small farm which had been partly burnt down , some 1½ km from the main military camp . |
| 18 | We lived in a three-bedroomed council house , one of the bedrooms being little more than a boxroom , and by this time there were seven of us in the family . |
| 19 | But we lived in a middle-class neighbourhood and I met with a lot of disapproval . |
| 20 | And , if the positions were reversed and we lived in a black-dominated society … |
| 21 | Let me put it another way , if we lived in a magic world , and were n't having things like essays and package deals together , and any officer was being asked to forecast the money that would be needed for the sensible and , and virile implementation of five B , would you arrive at a figure of about thirty thousand pounds or not ? |
| 22 | We lived in a rented cottage in a remote Welsh valley with no luxuries . |
| 23 | We owned no property , as we lived in a rented flat and in any case needed a home in London for at least two more years . |
| 24 | We lived in a large farmhouse , that belonged to the farm my father worked for . |
| 25 | We lived in a high-rise apartment , so I wo n't miss that , and the only garden I ever get to see is my mum 's when we go down there on Sundays sometimes . |
| 26 | They lived at a low level of amenity for , even if they had had the wealth and knowledge to run a specialized judiciary or a hospital service , they resisted the organizational and constitutional consequences of such institutions . |
| 27 | They lived in a double-decker apartment in Adelphi Terrace that had been Charlotte 's home before her marriage . |
| 28 | In his opinion , they would make peace on almost any terms , they were shot through with cowardice , they lived in a perpetual funk . |
| 29 | They could never forget , he told his audience in his 70th anniversary speech later in the year , that they lived in a multinational state . |
| 30 | ' However eager sceptical Victorians might be to replace the superstitious world of their forefathers with a structure that seemed to them more solid and more rational , the alternative , namely that they lived in a meaningless world of chance , was repellent to many of them . |