Example sentences of "[vb past] live [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From soon after their inception colonial corals started to live together in large masses with one or many species forming large , mound-like , wave resistant structures — coral reefs . |
| 2 | Anne had four brothers , three of whom died young , and when the youngest brother Jeremy died in 1813 she inherited Shibden Hall ( now a folk museum ) , Halifax , and went to live there in 1815 with her aunt and uncle . |
| 3 | The Fellowes family continued to live here until 1979 . |
| 4 | Elizabeth Beesley had lived here for 37 years before Robert Maxwell made her an offer she could n't refuse . |
| 5 | I came with my thirteen-year-old son to join my husband who had lived here for many , many years . |
| 6 | His wish was not to rake over the past of men who had lived peacefully in this country since they came to Britain as refugees after the war , he said . |
| 7 | Giverny has become a monument to America 's infatuation with Monet — an infatuation which has been at least partly responsible for the exorbitant prices until recently given for his paintings , and one which is now shared with the Japanese Monet had lived there since 1884 , first renting a farm house with two and a half acres , then buying it , gradually making additions such as a studio , and extending the attached land to accommodate his famous Japanese garden and lake . |
| 8 | I stopped to take a photograph of one estancia that I knew belonged to a Scottish family who had lived there for five generations : even from two miles away I could hear the rhythmic clattering of the tin roof as it was lifted and dropped by the gales . |
| 9 | In Kufra one policeman ( the senior customs officer ) was a stranger , though he had lived there for some decades ; in Tazarbu nearly all policemen were from one lineage ( Bilal ) , or had married into it ; the senior officer 's son was also in the force , a trainee under his father 's authority . |
| 10 | Mr Fallon said a family renting a house valued at £25,000 , and entitled to the maximum price discount of 40pc because they had lived there for some years , could have a mortgage of £10,000 . |
| 11 | She had lived there for some time although it is not known where she lived before coming to Darlington . |
| 12 | In any case , Charles Henstock cared little for creature comforts , and had lived there for several years , alone , in appalling conditions of cold and discomfort , until his marriage to Dimity Dean , a few years before , had brought companionship and a slight mitigation of the hardship of his surroundings . |
| 13 | Like the Anglo-Irish , they had lived long in that country and had built its prosperity , only to see themselves betrayed by the politics of moderation and compromise . |
| 14 | The parents of a girl born in 1986 had lived together since 1982 . |
| 15 | Seth had sent for Vicky four years earlier , when he first came to New Orleans , and they had lived together for six months . |
| 16 | Peter Armstrong , prosecuting , said the couple had been married for a year but had lived together for four years before marrying . |
| 17 | Angela Jones , 26 , of the same address , said she had known Michael for eight years and they had lived together for seven . |
| 18 | She suggested that I speak to a man who had lived nearby in 1948 , and after some hours he arrived at the house , a middle-aged Israeli with a lined face and very bloodshot eyes . |
| 19 | I wanted to live awhile among those who had been part of his childhood and his last few years . |
| 20 | Before term started I wanted to live anonymously in this city where no one knew me , just for a few days . |
| 21 | He retired to live quietly at first at Oatlands Park , maintaining his religious Nonconformity . |