Example sentences of "lived [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had lived together for a long time , but the sister was now reaching the conclusion that the situation could not continue much longer : |
| 2 | ‘ The woman involved was a married woman with a family and she and Philip had lived together for a couple of months but she decided to go back to her husband in September . ’ |
| 3 | But her deep tanned face had been lived in for a fistful of decades . |
| 4 | If the property has been lived in for a long time with old carpets that have never been shampooed they can exude quite pungent odours . |
| 5 | The house was n't run-down , either , but there were touches here and there betraying the fact 64 that it had n't been lived in for a couple of years ; the windows that were n't shuttered were n't clean , and there were weeds pushing up through the gravel . |
| 6 | The figures actually which I got from the director yesterday are that the department is counting four hundred and ten vacancies of those four hundred and ten , two hundred and thirty four are out of commission , they 're in homes being refurbished seventy two are in blocked places , that is double rooms being lived in by a widow or widower where er they 'd previously shared it with the spouse or er disability reasons , health reasons , behaviour reasons of a resident er in a previously shared room . |
| 7 | Before the site became part of a private country park the building was lived in by a local tenant farmer named Mrs Hollington . |
| 8 | But if they are described in stories , then surely they must have lived once upon a time ? ’ |
| 9 | This essential learning process is relational , for adult life and behaviour are lived out in a wide range of relationships . |
| 10 | Will Religious Life need to be lived out in a new form ? |
| 11 | In the past the people of Elling had lived communally in a series of longhouses that were not , as now , separated into single family dwellings . |
| 12 | I mean there , there are a lot of people , of people in who have lived here for a long time , and lived here ever since they were born . |
| 13 | Gundulph we know most certainly lived here for a while , for here he could retire with his household to live on tithes collected locally as the manor was allotted to supply his table " ad victum episcopi " as it was styled . |
| 14 | She says that considering he 's only lived here for a short while , it 's fantastic the way people are celebrating his success . |
| 15 | The ambassador reported that " The Emperor is monitoring the serious political illness which has gripped all countries , and believes his empire very far from being immune from infection " ; Nicholas was now of the opinion that " Highly reprehensible principles have been disseminated among young people who completed their university courses around three years ago , among people who have lived abroad for a long time , and also among teachers , professors , writers and journalists . |
| 16 | Those early days of marriage were lived modestly in a one-bedroom flat in Clapham , South London . |
| 17 | These neighbours had lived there for a number of years ; they knew Mrs Browning well , and what they told my husband made us feel rather small , and very inexperienced . |
| 18 | The first was occupied by Miss Trimby , the last of a family that had lived there for a long time whilst her neighbours were Mr. & Mrs. Collins with their middle-aged bachelor son . |
| 19 | they made the area around the reactor a non living area , the problem is of course people that have lived there for a long time do n't want to move and so over |
| 20 | However , there were two big differences : Whites had more in privately rented accommodation and had lived there for a shorter time ; these areas contained only 6 per cent . |
| 21 | After we had lived there for a few years , we wanted to buy it and do it up , so we asked my College for a mortgage . |
| 22 | I 'm not an expert — I 've only lived there for a couple of years . ’ |
| 23 | The place had belonged to a Polish woman , who 'd lived there as a child and then rented it to students for the past fifteen years . |
| 24 | It was a long while since she had visited her old home , and longer still since she had lived there as a girl . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , prior to our moving in , 27 cats had lived there with a professor of history and his wife who were a little eccentric . |
| 26 | I suppose had I lived then in a Northern city , the sight would not have been remarkable . |
| 27 | that the parties have lived apart for a continuous period of at least two years immediately preceding the presentation of the petition , and the respondent consents to a decree being granted ; or |
| 28 | that the parties have lived apart for a continuous period of at least five years immediately preceding the presentation of the petition . |
| 29 | The petitioner still had to prove breakdown by demonstrating one ( or more ) of the following ‘ facts ’ : that the respondent had committed adultery ; that the respondent had behaved in such a way that the petitioner could not reasonably be expected to live with the respondent ; that the respondent had deserted the petitioner for a continuous period of at least two years ; that the parties had lived apart for a continuous period of at least two years and that the respondent consented to a decree being granted ; or that the parties had lived apart for a continuous period of at least five years . |
| 30 | The petitioner still had to prove breakdown by demonstrating one ( or more ) of the following ‘ facts ’ : that the respondent had committed adultery ; that the respondent had behaved in such a way that the petitioner could not reasonably be expected to live with the respondent ; that the respondent had deserted the petitioner for a continuous period of at least two years ; that the parties had lived apart for a continuous period of at least two years and that the respondent consented to a decree being granted ; or that the parties had lived apart for a continuous period of at least five years . |