Example sentences of "we lived [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 We lived on a small farm which had been partly burnt down , some 1½ km from the main military camp .
2 ‘ If we lived on a good one , how would things be different ? ’
3 If we lived on a very , very heavy planet … ’
4 We lived in a tall , narrow Victorian house , which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war , when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat .
5 We lived in a gentler age .
6 We lived in a three-bedroomed council house , one of the bedrooms being little more than a boxroom , and by this time there were seven of us in the family .
7 But we lived in a middle-class neighbourhood and I met with a lot of disapproval .
8 We lived in a detached three-bedroom house on the edge of the town .
9 We lived in a huge old flat facing the Panthéon , and I began to study medicine seriously .
10 And , if the positions were reversed and we lived in a black-dominated society …
11 Let me put it another way , if we lived in a magic world , and were n't having things like essays and package deals together , and any officer was being asked to forecast the money that would be needed for the sensible and , and virile implementation of five B , would you arrive at a figure of about thirty thousand pounds or not ?
12 We owned no property , as we lived in a rented flat and in any case needed a home in London for at least two more years .
13 We lived in a rented cottage in a remote Welsh valley with no luxuries .
14 We lived in a large farmhouse , that belonged to the farm my father worked for .
15 We lived in a high-rise apartment , so I wo n't miss that , and the only garden I ever get to see is my mum 's when we go down there on Sundays sometimes .
16 Each of us lived in a concrete box , nine feet long and six feet wide , with walls one and a half foot thick , and 14 air holes .
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