Example sentences of "have live [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has lived here for eight months and knows more about the town than the Neftis , who are infuriatingly vague when it comes to giving directions . |
| 2 | Realists may argue that the US has lived before with undemocratic regimes and can do so again . |
| 3 | It was a remarkable education for all of us , including me , who has lived there for many years . |
| 4 | The vendor is the third generation of the family who has lived there since 1919 , and is understood to have decided to sell rather than continue to face the task of maintaining the estate . |
| 5 | Poor Carrie and Nick , having to live here with this rude , unfair man for the rest of the war . |
| 6 | It 's such a lovely idea , think of all those people whose battle for life is so depressing , and then just one moment of beauty may come and illuminate the dark corners of their existence , so that they feel they may have lived just for that one thing . |
| 7 | In Idaho , for example , the couple must have lived apart for 180 days . |
| 8 | We had nothing against it for others but , having both had fairly disastrous marriages previously and having lived together in reasonable harmony for so many years , it went against the grain . |
| 9 | Elizabeth Beesley had lived here for 37 years before Robert Maxwell made her an offer she could n't refuse . |
| 10 | I came with my thirteen-year-old son to join my husband who had lived here for many , many years . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She had lived there for some time although it is not known where she lived before coming to Darlington . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The parents of a girl born in 1986 had lived together since 1982 . |
| 20 | Seth had sent for Vicky four years earlier , when he first came to New Orleans , and they had lived together for six months . |
| 21 | Peter Armstrong , prosecuting , said the couple had been married for a year but had lived together for four years before marrying . |
| 22 | Angela Jones , 26 , of the same address , said she had known Michael for eight years and they had lived together for seven . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | We 've lived together for eight years and have two children ? |
| 25 | In your case you may be able to say that your spouse has committed adultery and you find it intolerable to live with her ; or that you have lived apart for two years and you consent to the divorce . |
| 26 | ‘ They blame us for their problems , I mean even though we have lived here for many , many generations . |
| 27 | Hodges have lived here for eight generations but Rachel Hodge is relaxed about most things her guests do — even the Czechoslovakian guests who played tennis on her court in brown walking shoes and underwear ! |
| 28 | I have lived here for twenty years . |
| 29 | You have lived here for half of your life . |
| 30 | I have lived here for 40 years and no one ever bothered anyone . |