Example sentences of "lived [adv] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 William lived on for a further 16 years after that , into the reign of George V and the First World War .
2 The fiery blast killed everyone on deck instantly , with the single exception of the captain , who lived on for a short time before becoming unconscious and falling overboard .
3 They lived together for a long time ; she bore him children — who took after their mother and turned out to be demons too .
4 Elizabeth and Helen moved into their own basement flat in an inner-city suburb in 1987. they are middle-aged and spent nearly thirty years together at the same mental handicap hospital but lived separately for the two years before the move into the community because Helen was transferred to a smaller institution .
5 And when I come here and I lived here for a few year and then really saw what it was like , I thought , God , never again .
6 ‘ Even if he only lived here for a few years when he was small , I wanted him to know something of his roots , to be aware of his background . ’
7 Many people claim that Frederick was imprisoned by the Turks , and that after his release he returned to Kaiserslautern and lived there for a long time .
8 Yeah , and we lived there for a long time did n't you , you stayed in that house for a long , long time
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