Example sentences of "lived [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For almost exactly nine years , from the late summer of 1980 to the late summer of 1989 , Poland lived through a political crisis . |
| 2 | Scott inherited the family estate in 1596 , but from 1612 until towards the end of his life he lived for a good part of the year in Canterbury . |
| 3 | In 1902 he lived for a short period in Clerkenwell , east London . |
| 4 | It is a remarkable finding from these interviews that of those informants who married before 1918 almost half — and over half if we include those with soldier husbands — lived for an initial period , sometimes brief but often two or more years , with one of their parents before moving into a house of their own . |
| 5 | A singer of poignant songs , Rikoran was born near Mukden in Manchuria in 1920 of Japanese parents , but lived as a young girl with a Chinese family . |
| 6 | She was probably not born into the wild , but she lived as a feral dog . |
| 7 | In the country you lived as a social being and at the valuation of others . |
| 8 | He had married Jemima Mott in 1816 but lived as a childless widower from 1829 after the death of his wife . |
| 9 | A national income survey also released in March showed that 29.2 per cent of the population in 1987-88 lived below the official poverty line ( consumption of some US$11 per month ) , as compared with 43.8 per cent a decade earlier . |
| 10 | This was a wicked demon who lived beneath a primordial swamp , in which seethed evil beings and spirits . |
| 11 | In The last Country Houses , a book which documents the death of the old tradition of hospitality , Clive Aslett records the response of a nouveau riche lady when told that some pleasant people lived near the rural seat her husband had just acquired . |
| 12 | All of them lived with a nervous expectation that it could happen to them . |
| 13 | Brian lived with a primitive terror of outer darkness which he rationalized as a fear of failure : this he further refined into a disinclination to live out of London . |
| 14 | Of those living with one natural parent in 1985 , some 10% lived with a lone mother . |
| 15 | This figure declined slightly for older children , a growing proportion of whom lived with a natural parent and a step-parent . |
| 16 | For the first two months I lived with a French family in Fontainebleau and studied with a Commandant Lettaure , who was coaching fifteen other young Englishmen . |
| 17 | In one , for example , a casual labourer and his wife in their sixties lived with a woman of 79 , her son of 57 who was a street matchseller , and six younger tenants ; in another a woman of 68 was subletting to another woman of 65 , a crippled woman of sixty , and two others ; while in a third household a 71-year-old sandwich-man lived with an unrelated widow and widower of the same age and two younger tenants . |
| 18 | I lived with an elderly lady in a little thatched cottage which looked like something out of Hansel and Gretel . |
| 19 | Laslett in turn has been challenged for ignoring the effects of the life-cycle in altering family size through generations , for by-passing evidence which suggests that other kin lived with the conjugal unit , and for rejecting changing ideologies of the family . |
| 20 | When you lived with the old man . |
| 21 | And the peedie fairy came back and lived with the old wife been afore . |
| 22 | Not all of the émigrés from Eastern Europe were so fortunate as Goma and Tanase , who lived with the constant threat of assassination at least until Christmas 1989 . |
| 23 | Tonight she had said nothing , so Frankie almost believed himself safe , yet he lived with the constant fear that one night she would make a horrible mistake and he would walk to his death in the inky shadows upstairs . |
| 24 | Unfortunately her family lived under a constant cloud of danger . |
| 25 | Some of these creatures lived in a protective tube . |
| 26 | He lived in a good loose-box , and was let out to water twice a day . |
| 27 | The men of the ship 's company lived in a makeshift hut for ten months , and then took to their boats for the homeward passage , reaching Novaya Zemlya , where they met the Hope , commanded by Sir Allen W. Young [ q.v. ] , who had been sent to find them . |
| 28 | Her imagination conjured up a vision of the young , ambitious Lucenzo , struggling to study for his banking exams and to stay smart amid the chaos caused when a wife and several children lived in a cramped apartment . |
| 29 | During Hannah 's childhood and well beyond , Dalesfolk lived in a closed world where to travel more than a dozen miles from the farmstead was an unusual adventure the wireless a strange and suspicious device from foreign parts and a local newspaper something of an occasional luxury . |
| 30 | Mrs Bahia lived in a neighbouring house . |