Example sentences of "[coord] lived [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Although few people still retained the Great War view that German soldiers wore dead babies on their helmet spikes and lived on human flesh , there was little doubt in many minds that the Fuhrer was related to the devil . |
2 | Fifteen thousand men , women and children where ruthlessly evicted from their homes and Patrick Seller was well rewarded for his evil work : by 1819 , he rented no less than 75,000 acres of cleared land , and lived in grand style in a fine house at Syre — ruling dispossessed Clan Mackay with an iron , heartless hand . |
3 | Boswell does not say which of them raised the question of biography , and somewhat out of context he leads into a comment from Johnson : ‘ Nobody can write the life of a man , but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him . ’ |
4 | Anyway , she got her way , and lived in fine style for a couple of weeks that heady summer of love and peace , etcetera . |
5 | They fled to Dublin or England or came out in very small numbers and lived in closeted fearfulness of exposure , job loss and increasing isolation . |
6 | He was present at the funeral of Edward VI , but lived in quiet retirement during Mary I 's reign . |