Example sentences of "lived [prep] a [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 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 .
5 She was probably not born into the wild , but she lived as a feral dog .
6 In the country you lived as a social being and at the valuation of others .
7 He had married Jemima Mott in 1816 but lived as a childless widower from 1829 after the death of his wife .
8 This was a wicked demon who lived beneath a primordial swamp , in which seethed evil beings and spirits .
9 All of them lived with a nervous expectation that it could happen to them .
10 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 .
11 Of those living with one natural parent in 1985 , some 10% lived with a lone mother .
12 This figure declined slightly for older children , a growing proportion of whom lived with a natural parent and a step-parent .
13 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 .
14 Unfortunately her family lived under a constant cloud of danger .
15 Some of these creatures lived in a protective tube .
16 He lived in a good loose-box , and was let out to water twice a day .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 Mrs Bahia lived in a neighbouring house .
21 A similar gender difference was apparent in the time spent helping someone who lived in a separate household ; here 32 per cent of women but only 22 per cent of men spent ten hours or more each week on care-giving ( Green , 1988 , p. 21 ) .
22 Mosley also lived in a private world where there was leisure and a sense of fun .
23 These three ladies , now in their seventies , lived in a Georgian doll 's house in Lulling 's High Street .
24 But we lived in a middle-class neighbourhood and I met with a lot of disapproval .
25 If Ah lived in a clapped-out city like this with inflation at two hundred per cent , or whatever it is , Ah 'd dae just about anythin' fur payment in solid US dollars . ’
26 We lived in a gentler age .
27 Stuart Pascoe lived in a spacious house not far from Canterbury Cathedral with a garden that swung down to a river .
28 ' 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 .
29 All in all , in 1975 it was estimated that some 145,000 persons lived in a mobile home of some type .
30 They lived in a double-decker apartment in Adelphi Terrace that had been Charlotte 's home before her marriage .
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