Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] lived [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand Imamu is a very unrestricted boy who has lived in Harlem for the majority of his life doing what ever he liked with whom ever he liked . |
| 2 | Anatoliy , who has lived in Kiev for only three years , claimed a 9lb salmon as his best catch . |
| 3 | An American who has lived in Britain for 15 years , she has experienced the ‘ devastating ’ effects of unemployment . |
| 4 | Mrs White , who is originally from Edinburgh , but who has lived in Chester for six years , said the accolade for the hotel was given because it is a ‘ gorgeous place , ’ built in 1860 , with wood-panelling throughout and full of antiques . |
| 5 | Sixty-nine-year-old Mr Marshall , who has lived in Merrybent for 23 years , said : ‘ I want people to know how I survived as an objective lesson to other people that they can get through it . |
| 6 | Brian Mounsey , 24 , who has lived in Thailand for the past three years , was arrested after being found with two kilos of heroin . |
| 7 | 2 men , Paul Bryant , aged 29 , and who 'd lived in Cheltenham before the robbery , and Mark Cunnliffe , also 29 , from Derby , are accused of robbery , attempted murder , and possessing a firearm . |
| 8 | Rory was grateful not to get the lecture about the IRA men who had lived in foxholes in the soaking bog in the fifties , hunted out into the mountains by the B-men at the end of a long and terrible campaign , but he continued with the trains of thought . |
| 9 | Bui Tin , who had lived in Paris since September 1990 , had issued a controversial " citizen 's petition " in December criticizing the CPV leadership and demanding greater reforms . |
| 10 | The Chinese , for their part , needed reliable intelligence on conditions in Vietnam — some genuine Vietnamese support , too , if they could get it — but not simply that which was promised by émigrés who had lived in China for years and who had little or no contact with or contemporary knowledge of Vietnam . |
| 11 | Admission was only granted to those born in Britain or having an ancestral link stretching back two generations , those who had lived in Britain for five years , and spouses of patrials . |
| 12 | Category B covered those who had lived in Britain for some time and showed no obvious signs of hostility . |
| 13 | The MPRP held its third plenum on June 29 when the former head of state and MPRP general secretary Yumjaagiyn Tsedenbal , who had lived in Moscow since being removed from power in 1984 [ see p. 33159 ] , was roundly criticized . |
| 14 | Seemingly the first German to use the term ‘ cantata ’ was another pupil of Schutz , Kaspar Kittel , who had lived in Venice during 1624–9 . |
| 15 | However , it was also reported that Neamy was an Iraqi dissident who had lived in Sweden for several years and had returned home the previous year to pay a brief visit to his family . |
| 16 | It shares this reputation with countries that were once British colonies and which massacred native peoples who had lived in harmony with nature : Canada , the US , Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand . |
| 17 | Fereydun Farokhzad , 48 , a singer , poet and political dissident who had lived in exile since the establishment of Islamic government in Iran in 1979 , was found stabbed to death at his home in Bonn , Germany , on Aug. 8 . |
| 18 | The most prominent were Jan Kavan , a Civic Forum deputy who had lived in exile from 1968 until the 1989 revolution , and Jan Bartoncik , a former leader of the People 's Party . |
| 19 | Despite a £750,000 Government campaign , only 31,942 overseas residents have taken advantage of legislation giving the vote to expatriates who have lived in Britain at any time during the past 20 years . |