Example sentences of "[Wh pn] live [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This figure declined slightly for older children , a growing proportion of whom lived with a natural parent and a step-parent . |
| 2 | This was a wicked demon who lived beneath a primordial swamp , in which seethed evil beings and spirits . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Our builder suggested a lady whom he referred to as ‘ Barney ’ , who lived in a nearby village and had holiday cottages of her own . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A TOTALLY PSYCHEDELIC GUY , aged 16 , who lives for a good time is out to see if there are any zany females into Pink Floyd , Cult and The Who . |
| 16 | Once more it is helpful to consider the situation of a two-dimensional being who lives on a spherical surface embedded in our three-dimensional space . |
| 17 | IT 'S THE nightmare that everyone who lives near a big airport dreads . |
| 18 | Rob , who lives in a fifth floor apartment , said : ‘ The noise got louder and louder . |
| 19 | What , after all , can be said to a child about a man who lives in a mental hospital ? |
| 20 | MRS X , a housewife who lives in a small village in the South-East , became a victim of Brighton-based knockers less than a fortnight after the death of her husband , who was a keen collector of china , silver and oil paintings . |
| 21 | Miss Corinne Day , 27 , a fashion photographer with The Face magazine who lives in a top-floor flat in Brewer Street , said : ‘ I was putting my socks on ready to go out . |
| 22 | Mr Robinson , who lives in a special unit , Wakerley Lodge , at Leicester General Hospital , was injured on November 29 , 1988 when a Ferret scout car crashed . |
| 23 | ‘ They 're probably the best troops that the Philippine army has , ’ said Mr Peter Choynowski , an executive of the Asian Development Bank from Canada , who lives in a high-rise flat shelled by mortars . |
| 24 | A MADCAP millionaire who lives in a run-down cottage has been taken to court over an unpaid poll tax bill — for FIVE PENCE . |
| 25 | A DENTAL surgeon who lives in a wooden hut has been lumped into the luxury council tax bracket . |
| 26 | For those of us who live with a friendly cat it is hard to understand people who suffer from a terror of encountering felines at close quarters . |
| 27 | Others , however , suggest , less cheeringly and no less convincingly , that the duration of disability proceeding death rises with age , so the more people who live to a longer life span , the bigger the health bills . |
| 28 | As for those countries who live under a non-religious dictatorship and are officially atheist , they appear to have learned a few things from the Inquisition . |
| 29 | The couple are totally accepted by Linda 's middle-aged parents who live in a terraced house in Darlington . |
| 30 | Altogether there is a population of only about 190 , who live in a scattered community , largely agricultural . |