Example sentences of "[pers pn] lived [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of them lived with a nervous expectation that it could happen to them . |
| 2 | Bartlemas had an enormous private income , and the pair of them lived in a tall Victorian house in Islington , which was filled to the brim with play-bills , prints , prompt copies , figurines and other souvenirs of their two heroes . |
| 3 | Some of them lived in a rented house , while the Taiwan Ten took over the garage and yard . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I lived in a small , second floor flat with my father , my mother being dead , which overlooked a small , noisy courtyard . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ I lived in a large house converted into flats . |
| 9 | I lived in a different house , read different books , played different games and so on , and , despite various efforts , could not become popular . |
| 10 | And I lived in a back-to-back houses , and concrete floors , no no carpets on . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | In the country you lived as a social being and at the valuation of others . |
| 13 | as if to make up for the early deaths of her sisters , she lived to a ripe old age , dying in the Almshouses at Dorking on 4 November 1855 , aged eighty-seven . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She was probably not born into the wild , but she lived as a feral dog . |
| 16 | She lived in a one-bedroom flat in St George 's Place as you may know those council flats . |
| 17 | She lived in a one-bedroomed flat , four floors up in a tower block . |
| 18 | She lived in a small house near ours and seemed very old to me ; but that was many years ago . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | She lived in a big old tenement block . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Cos her sons had got married and she lived in a little bu flat , bungalow rather . |
| 23 | We lived on a small farm which had been partly burnt down , some 1½ km from the main military camp . |
| 24 | ‘ If we lived on a good one , how would things be different ? ’ |
| 25 | If we lived on a very , very heavy planet … ’ |
| 26 | We lived in a tall , narrow Victorian house , which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war , when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But we lived in a middle-class neighbourhood and I met with a lot of disapproval . |
| 29 | We lived in a detached three-bedroom house on the edge of the town . |
| 30 | We lived in a huge old flat facing the Panthéon , and I began to study medicine seriously . |