Example sentences of "[coord] lived [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neighbours said one of the arrested men moved into a flat just before Christmas and lived with a woman presumed to be his wife and two sons in their mid-teens . |
| 2 | The boy sat hunched on the edge of his bed , his slight shoulders rigid ; the green eyes followed with an uneasy glitter the deliberate progress of his captor 's elegant , muscular hand through a meagre yard of air , and lived through a wilderness of reluctance and temptation during its passage . |
| 3 | I was born in 1934 and lived through a world war . |
| 4 | Intimacy with God , with each other , and with the neighbourhood in which we lived , following the example of Jesus in John 1:14 : ‘ The Word became flesh and lived for a while among us . ’ |
| 5 | People dismiss this aspect of Wordsworth 's poetry as ‘ odd ’ , forgetting that George Orwell became a tramp for six weeks and lived for a year as a down-and-out ; and Shakespeare wrote a play about a mad old man who was also a vagrant ! |
| 6 | He had an excellent temperament and lived as a family pet . |
| 7 | She was big , well-off , theatrical , and lived above a butcher 's shop in Shepherds Market , Mayfair . |
| 8 | Percy Wood was appointed senior labour master in 1933 , and lived in a cottage on a site now occupied by the boilerhouse . |
| 9 | At first Leonora was n't sure precisely what Penry had in mind regarding their relationship , and lived in a state of tension between his phone calls . |
| 10 | He earned nearly £22 a week and lived in a bedsitter . |
| 11 | And this is a boy who used to smoke marijuana and lived in a squat with a girlfriend who had a tattoo on her backside and two kids by somebody else , if you please … ’ |
| 12 | One was an Abergavenny horse-cab proprietor who ‘ drove a lot of nobility around ’ although ‘ he was very aged ; ’ he had married his housekeeper after becoming a widower , and lived in a mill where his grandson ‘ used to learn all about his horses . ’ |
| 13 | Sadly , as much as we wanted to keep her , we were out at work all day , and lived in a flat without a garden . |
| 14 | Even Graham , one of the few members who had left home and lived in a flat , would be helping in the campaign , although he would not be voting Conservative , so much did he dislike the personality and politics of the local MP . |
| 15 | He followed his father 's profession as a whitesmith , locksmith , bell hanger and general ironmonger and lived in a house in Broad Street where he fiddled the local gas company by bypassing the meter using a section of old piping . |
| 16 | Tony Wilkinson dressed up as a down-and-out in London and lived like a tramp for several weeks as part of a television enquiry into London 's dossers , published in book form as Down and Out . |
| 17 | But here too there is a danger of distortion : occupants who were very poor but lived in a house with masonry foundations , surrounded by heaps of discarded food debris , and who used poor quality pottery ( fragments of which would survive ) might well appear to have had better living conditions than the richer occupants of a site who lived in a large timber-built house , using high-quality wooden and leather vessels ( which would not usually survive ) , and were able to employ servants to remove debris from the immediate vicinity of the house . |