Example sentences of "he [vb past] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A former cabinet minister , Toshiyuki Inamura , was charged with evading ¥1.7 billion ( $12.6m ) of taxes on some ¥2.8 billion of ill-gotten gains that he made in a shares racket . |
| 2 | He felt as though he lived in a purposeless world . |
| 3 | His name was Fred Paxford , and he lived in a small wooden bungalow on the other side of the brick kilns . |
| 4 | The principle which would have to be established first of all is that each person in the world ( all those aged 21 or over , suggests Dr Grubb ) would have an equal share in man-made carbon dioxide emissions , regardless of whether he lived in a rich developed country or a poor one which produced hardly any carbon dioxide at all . |
| 5 | In the summer , he lived in a little house surrounded by sunflowers higher than it was , beside a village with a pale blue pump in the centre , with geese marching around , pigeons gurgling ( they have a different accent on the Continent ) and people sitting on walls gossiping in the evening . |
| 6 | He lived in a cocoon of self justification . |
| 7 | Belfast loyalists did not vote for Seawright because he wanted to burn Catholics but because he lived in a council flat , spoke up for those loyalists who tried to kill IRA men , and was not prepared to abandon working-class Protestants in order to appear respectable . |
| 8 | He lived in a converted cowshed and was exercised by his owner , who raced his three horses simply for the fun of it . |
| 9 | ‘ He lived in a bothy until the roof fell in . |
| 10 | When Abdulrahman Bu Riziq explained why he lived in a tent he remarked the absence of policemen . |
| 11 | He lived in a small house there with his brothers and sisters , all Israeli citizens who spoke Hebrew and lived and worked in Israel . |
| 12 | Handel wrote the Messiah in London , where he lived in a house close to present-day King 's Cross Station , five years after suffering a severe stroke , and it received its first performance in Dublin in 1742 . |
| 13 | He lived in a small cottage in the fields just off what is now Princess Way . |
| 14 | Grandfather 's wage was the magnificent sum of twelve shillings per week and of course he lived in a tied cottage . |
| 15 | The momentary weakness had bothered her for weeks afterwards as she worried as to whether she had lost her professionalism along with the opportunity to grill Hugo Varna over the truth about his relationship — and Paula 's — with the man who had died as he lived in a blaze of publicity . |
| 16 | Immediately on his arrival , Louis had installed the exiled Stuart in a palace at St Germain-en-Laye , where he lived in a far more impressive style than most royal exiles . |
| 17 | Now he lived in a neat semi-detached on the outskirts of Bradford with his wife and three lovely kids , earning a comfortable , respectable living doing weddings , portraits , the odd news pic for the local paper . |
| 18 | He lived in a fantasy world of his own , even as a small boy . |
| 19 | He lived in a quiet road off the south side of Clapham Common in a small Victorian semi , with tiny patches of garden at front and back . |
| 20 | He lived in a big Moscow flat down one of the side-streets in the Arbat . |
| 21 | He lived in a government building on the Moscow River . |
| 22 | Except he lived in a big house up on the Ridge . |
| 23 | He lived in a world of his own mythology peopled by an enemy of his own creation — the Jewish Communists with the razors — who had marked him for what he was . |
| 24 | Mac had a girlfriend and a baby with whom he lived in a Bayswater hotel room provided by Westminster Council . |
| 25 | But she knew now that he lived in a state near total despair , his life so meaningless he did n't know how to live it , his one certainty that he had to find Jake and Fincara . |
| 26 | He lived in a good loose-box , and was let out to water twice a day . |
| 27 | He lived in a world of fire and smoke , and was permanently black , as if he came from hell . |
| 28 | Perhaps he lived in a cage like this . |
| 29 | He lived in a pleasing little flat some distance away from the prison . |
| 30 | He lived in a big , warm cave with his mother and father dinosaur . |