Example sentences of "who have lived for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ted , who has lived for over thirty years in Yorkshire , will guide you to a different beauty spot every day . |
| 2 | She could hardly bear to think the thought , but it did seem to her that anyone who had lived for so many years with her mother could be excused for a certain lack of joie de vivre . |
| 3 | Montaigne claimed that he had obtained his information by careful interrogation of a " plain simple fellow " who had lived for more than ten years in the French Huguenot colony which had been established around 1 540 close to modern Rio de Janeiro . |
| 4 | Miss Gracie had been the last governess , a pale sad woman who had lived for the brief holidays she could get away to spend with a beloved brother and his family in Stirling . |
| 5 | Since J. C. Wells 's research on the phonological adaptations made by Jamaicans who had lived for a period in London ( Wells 1973 ) , there have been only a few detailed studies of the language of Caribbeans in Britain in spite of a good deal of interest in all aspects of Britain 's black population . |
| 6 | People who have lived for very many years in any institution have considerable difficulties in coping with changes , even if the proposed changes are potentially to be welcomed . |
| 7 | ( Even today , Australian aborigines who have lived for a generation in settlements have still to acquire the habit of taking regular meals . ) |