Example sentences of "[vb past] live [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From soon after their inception colonial corals started to live together in large masses with one or many species forming large , mound-like , wave resistant structures — coral reefs . |
| 2 | Elizabeth Beesley had lived here for 37 years before Robert Maxwell made her an offer she could n't refuse . |
| 3 | His wish was not to rake over the past of men who had lived peacefully in this country since they came to Britain as refugees after the war , he said . |
| 4 | I stopped to take a photograph of one estancia that I knew belonged to a Scottish family who had lived there for five generations : even from two miles away I could hear the rhythmic clattering of the tin roof as it was lifted and dropped by the gales . |
| 5 | In Kufra one policeman ( the senior customs officer ) was a stranger , though he had lived there for some decades ; in Tazarbu nearly all policemen were from one lineage ( Bilal ) , or had married into it ; the senior officer 's son was also in the force , a trainee under his father 's authority . |
| 6 | Mr Fallon said a family renting a house valued at £25,000 , and entitled to the maximum price discount of 40pc because they had lived there for some years , could have a mortgage of £10,000 . |
| 7 | She had lived there for some time although it is not known where she lived before coming to Darlington . |
| 8 | In any case , Charles Henstock cared little for creature comforts , and had lived there for several years , alone , in appalling conditions of cold and discomfort , until his marriage to Dimity Dean , a few years before , had brought companionship and a slight mitigation of the hardship of his surroundings . |
| 9 | Like the Anglo-Irish , they had lived long in that country and had built its prosperity , only to see themselves betrayed by the politics of moderation and compromise . |
| 10 | Seth had sent for Vicky four years earlier , when he first came to New Orleans , and they had lived together for six months . |
| 11 | Peter Armstrong , prosecuting , said the couple had been married for a year but had lived together for four years before marrying . |
| 12 | Before term started I wanted to live anonymously in this city where no one knew me , just for a few days . |