Example sentences of "[noun prp] lived [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flora Macdonald lived in a small farm estate , off this road . |
| 2 | The Foleys lived in a large Victorian house with a garden in Donnybrook , a couple of miles from the centre of Dublin . |
| 3 | Stuart Pascoe lived in a spacious house not far from Canterbury Cathedral with a garden that swung down to a river . |
| 4 | My cousin Ibrahim lived in a two-storey house a few hundred metres away , just beyond the Tel Aviv–Jaffa port railway line . |
| 5 | The two of them had often met socially in the old days , with their respective partners , at evenings in the Green Dragon , the local pub in the village of Welton , ten miles from Hull , where Horsley lived in a magnificent stone house which , he always stressed , did not have a drive . |
| 6 | Along with the hundred-headed DRAGON Ladon , the Hesperides lived in a beautiful orchard , referred to by Robed Greene in Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay ( 1598 ) : |
| 7 | IN comparison with our own times , Marx and Engels lived in a pre-nationalist age . |
| 8 | LEPINE LIVED in a small room in the back of a shared flat on Bordeaux Street , not far from his mother 's house and in view of the iron girders of Jacques Cartier bridge , spanning the Saint Lawrence river . |
| 9 | She and Jarvis 's father and Jarvis lived in a semi-detached house in Wimbledon . |
| 10 | During Hannah 's childhood and well beyond , Dalesfolk lived in a closed world where to travel more than a dozen miles from the farmstead was an unusual adventure the wireless a strange and suspicious device from foreign parts and a local newspaper something of an occasional luxury . |
| 11 | Would she understand how Juliet felt , with their tiny house and small garden , when the Westwoods lived in a great house with lots of land — Nigel had told her often enough — and all their friends were the same ? |
| 12 | For a week , while the ship was stored and watered and fresh livestock taken aboard , Sara lived in a strange no-man's-land of emotion in which she alternated between boiling excitement at what lay ahead and abject dolours at the thought of leaving Ireland . |
| 13 | The Heathertons lived in a tall grey house in Bath Street , in the best quarter of town ; it had coachman 's premises at the back , giving on to a narrow cobbled lane . |
| 14 | Brian lived with a primitive terror of outer darkness which he rationalized as a fear of failure : this he further refined into a disinclination to live out of London . |
| 15 | Mrs Bahia lived in a neighbouring house . |
| 16 | Sally lived in a happy whirl marred only by worrying about how far she should go . |
| 17 | It was a big , old house ; a lot of doors for a single man , if Parker lived in a single room . |
| 18 | Sammy lived in a small cottage on the bank of the Berkeley to Gloucester canal . |
| 19 | Brigadier and Mrs. Carter lived in a large house in Brown Street — he was fat , very pompous with a waxed moustache , having exceptionally long spikes ; Major Forbes from Fowlers Hill , who not only looked like but also dressed like King George V — whether by accident or design I do n't know , Mrs. Bowyer , the widow of an Australian Bishop who lived in Fowlers Road was very big and wore outsize hats which accentuated her size and finally the Headmaster , Mr. E.J. Russ . |
| 20 | Surrounded by pianos , friends and eclectic clutter , Sir Lennox Berkeley and his wife Freda lived in a late Georgian house in Little Venice until his death last Christmas . |
| 21 | Until he was nine years old , Endill Swift lived in a large wooden house at the edge of Duntinnie village . |
| 22 | For almost exactly nine years , from the late summer of 1980 to the late summer of 1989 , Poland lived through a political crisis . |
| 23 | Her Aunt Elizabeth lived in a small house in the depths of the country near Hereford , and as she her self had never in her life been outside of Birmingham , the journey was like visiting a foreign country . |
| 24 | Henry lived in a small mews flat , just off Fitzroy Square . |
| 25 | Jackie lived at a high pitch , he was making hay while the sun shone , he was spreading himself thin with a young family and as many interests as he could cram into the year ; for someone always highly strung , always working at a high pitch of nervousness , an ulcer was the logical consequence . |