Example sentences of "[vb past] live [prep] the house " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he and my mother came to live at the house he bought five Aylesbury ducks to swim on the pond and clear it of weed . |
| 2 | Then the first ‘ maid ’ they ever had was a girl of 16 called Mollie and she had been deserted by her husband and came to live in the house with three tots . |
| 3 | His brother , Tommy , came to live in the house but he did n't survive very long either . |
| 4 | A young woman called Justine came to live in the house to help my mother with the children . |
| 5 | I can not remember Mrs. Jeffery who must have died when I was quite small but her two daughters Miss Lottie Jeffery , a cripple and Mrs. Bruton continued living in the house . |
| 6 | The children had lived with the house keeper in the guest cottage and learned early that it was futile to ask when Mummy would be home . |
| 7 | Mr John Bevan , prosecuting , had said that the Johnsons had lived in the house for many years but feared fire and burglars . |
| 8 | She said the woman had lived in the house for about nine years and the man for about two . |
| 9 | By this time , Joan had married Edward Young , an architect in Lulling known to the Bassetts since childhood , and the young couple had lived in the house ever since . |
| 10 | He wanted to live in the house with his girlfriend . |
| 11 | Although he intended to live in the house , for at least part of the time , he saw it too as saleable and the value or price of it ( however you liked to put it ) going up every year . |