Example sentences of "[Wh pn] live [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More to the point , at that age , Auntie tells me , I saw no distinction between the two Fathers , both of whom lived in the sky . |
| 2 | In a very real sense , of course , the biographies of the Muftis in the following chapters illustrate the development of the hierarchy , but it seems not without point to concentrate attention on this particular aspect by placing side by side the biographies of two scholars , one of whom lived in the period before the hierarchy had become developed to any very great degree — before , perhaps , it is even possible to speak of a hierarchy-he other in a period when the development was fairly well advanced , though not complete . |
| 3 | Hoomey took Nutty , Nutty 's cousin Bean ( son of Uncle Knacker ) and a Sikh boy called Jazz , an amiable lad in jeans and a turban who lived down the road from him . |
| 4 | If only she could lose her puppy fat and get her hair done at a proper salon instead of having it cut by Ivy Tucker who lived down the road and who did hairdressing for pin money . |
| 5 | The spark of poetry was kindled in him by an elderly woman who lived with the family and was full of tales of witches and warlocks . |
| 6 | They were really much more than just bike rides , for Granny , who lived with the family , had told her the story of St. George and given her books about Brownies , and Brenda rode along the country lanes make-believing she was the knight riding to rescue the princess from the dragon . |
| 7 | His son , who lived with the family , died in Darlington Memorial Hospital late on Sunday night . |
| 8 | His grandmother , who lived with the family , was a diabetic and later had noticed her tablets had been interfered with . |
| 9 | It was probably here , too , that he first encountered Paul Odo Cross , the wealthy ex-ballet dancer who lived with the plant photographer , Angus Wilson , at Tidcombe Manor in Wiltshire , where they created a marvellous garden and influenced Cedric Morris with their growing and breeding of irises . |
| 10 | A neighbour at his home in Southend , Essex , said : ‘ He was a smashing lad who lived for the Army . |
| 11 | Although Nicholas 's victories over the Persians in 1828 and the Ottoman Empire in 1829 had made him temporarily safe from international complications in this area , they did little for the extension of Russian control over the peoples who lived to the north of Georgia . |
| 12 | The Caribou Indians , who lived to the west of Hudson Bay in Canada , were dependent for their food supply on the caribou herds . |
| 13 | Technically , the methods which Dale and his colleagues used had become archaic , as Dale ( who lived to the age of 93 in full intellectual vigour ) well knew . |
| 14 | The householders who lived above the valley bottoms were not happy about paying two sets of rates , needless to say , especially when the towns on the tops of the hills found themselves subsidizing drainage benefits for lowland farmers . |
| 15 | Two of the most daring had been observed in the garden by Miss Watson , the headmistress , who lived across the green at the school-house , and she had delivered dire warnings during assembly the next morning . |
| 16 | A few days later , a lady who lived across the road made the mistake of asking me what sort of bird it had been . |
| 17 | I had heard that a couple who lived across the road from us , Maureen and Aubrey Edwards , took in and cared for injured birds . |
| 18 | Maggie now recognized the voice of Faith Caskie who lived across the street . |
| 19 | In the ninth century the monks ( who lived on the south side ) built the more southerly of the two towers which still adorn the church , and from this tower the bells summoned the faithful to attend their masses and to make their contributions to the monks ' support . |
| 20 | There was a lavatory in the garden — no grass — which we shared with an Irish family who lived on the floor above us . |
| 21 | Elsewhere he refers to a treaty imposed by the king on the peoples who lived on the river Wahal , that is the Franks . |
| 22 | The intervention followed several weeks of fighting between rival Indian factions armed with automatic weapons and grenades , which resulted in the deaths of at least two people , the displacement of many of the 9,500 who lived on the reservation , and the infliction of serious material damage . |
| 23 | Importantly , this document does not refer to Louis Hotteterre , the brother of Nicolas ( dit Colin ) , who lived on the rue Marmousets in the parish of Ste Marie Magdelaine , but to the Louis whom I first identified in an earlier article : a letter written in 1712 by the French oboist Louis Rousselet mentions that he had left a musette for repair with Louis Hotteterre , who lived ‘ proche le Pon [ sic ] Marie ’ . |
| 24 | Detective Chief Superintendent Wycliffe and his wife , Helen , were to see the spectacle for the first time ; they were spending a long weekend with the Ballards , who lived on the moor above the town . |
| 25 | They had been built many hundreds of years ago by the people who lived on the moor . |
| 26 | Only the perseverance of Sir Stafford Northcote , who lived at the Warden 's House , managed to save him . |
| 27 | The men who lived at the graphite pits in 1898 — 9 were the same persons who would be likely to get up in the middle of the night to help take stolen cattle five kilometres to the next relay team , thereby earning a little money and easing the tedium of village life . |
| 28 | The first was Helen 's return to 6 Patten Road for a ten-day holiday before she began work in London as governess to Horst , the young son of M. and Mme Roman who lived at the Hotel Metropole . |
| 29 | On The Poultry Cross side of this was The Westminster Bank , on the other facing the Market , Singer Sewing Machines , and on the same side facing Minster Street , The London and Counties Clothing Company , a rather high sounding name for a not very large Men 's Outfitters , owned and run by Mr. Selway who lived at the corner of Milford Hill/Rampart Road with his mother . |
| 30 | Tim Roberts , prosecuting , said the couple , who lived at the house in Brankin Road , Darlington , had forgotten to shut the front door when they went to bed that night . |