Example sentences of "they lived [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of them lived with a nervous expectation that it could happen to them . |
| 2 | Bartlemas had an enormous private income , and the pair of them lived in a tall Victorian house in Islington , which was filled to the brim with play-bills , prints , prompt copies , figurines and other souvenirs of their two heroes . |
| 3 | Some of them lived in a rented house , while the Taiwan Ten took over the garage and yard . |
| 4 | They lived at a low level of amenity for , even if they had had the wealth and knowledge to run a specialized judiciary or a hospital service , they resisted the organizational and constitutional consequences of such institutions . |
| 5 | They lived in a double-decker apartment in Adelphi Terrace that had been Charlotte 's home before her marriage . |
| 6 | In his opinion , they would make peace on almost any terms , they were shot through with cowardice , they lived in a perpetual funk . |
| 7 | They could never forget , he told his audience in his 70th anniversary speech later in the year , that they lived in a multinational state . |
| 8 | ' However eager sceptical Victorians might be to replace the superstitious world of their forefathers with a structure that seemed to them more solid and more rational , the alternative , namely that they lived in a meaningless world of chance , was repellent to many of them . |
| 9 | For many disabled people , unwanted dependence on others would disappear overnight if they lived in a physical environment which did not handicap them . |
| 10 | They lived in a depressing house in Finchley . |
| 11 | While they could point to the fact that the town might have a poor bus system , could have better public amenities and that in winter it was dull , they could also point to the good health they enjoyed compared to when they lived in a large industrial city . |
| 12 | They lived by a simple code : do what the hell you liked , do it together , but be loyal to the King Rat . |