Example sentences of "[verb] lived [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is a remarkable old man in any setting , but in the bushveld of southern Africa , where he was born and has lived for much of his life , he was in his element . |
| 2 | In the centuries between the collapse of the Roman Empire and the present time Split has lived under many regimes and nationalities . |
| 3 | I was in apartments for 10 years , and when one has lived under those conditions it makes one contented to know we can use plenty of water . |
| 4 | The old man has lived in that house ever since I can remember . |
| 5 | He has lived in this pleasant suburb 45 years , entirely unaware that Kirk , Keef , Claptout and all of Led Zeppelin had been looking for him to apologise for stealing his songs and to pay him much-needed royalties . |
| 6 | It seems that he speaks no English although he has lived in this country for some time ; he is in fact Italian by birth . |
| 7 | I had to apply for access — access to my own daughter who I 'd lived with all her life . |
| 8 | Until now the possibility had n't occurred to Godolphin — he 'd been too preoccupied by the secret that he 'd lived with most of his adult life — but it was an intriguing , and disturbing , thought . |
| 9 | She always always oh she she had a second sight like that , I think she should 've been a doctor if she 'd lived in these this day and age . |
| 10 | On a taxi ride across the Clyde Valley — Hamilton , Motherwell , Wishaw going with my father to the psychiatric hospital where my mother had just been admitted , I was overwhelmed by the past , not just the place names that had filled my childhood when I 'd lived in this part of Scotland over twenty years before , but another past to which I had even less access : a prelude to my own . |
| 11 | the staff somewhere and we , we came in here and of course most of the people eventually had families and er they moved out to bigger accommodation as their families grew up , you know , er , we were very pleased to get the house of course because we 'd we 'd lived in this Nissan hut for er either one or two years but it did |
| 12 | I 'm not saying it had such a positive effect on his career but it caused a lot of attention which he did n't buckle under , and I do feel a lot of people could n't have lived through that experience , but he did . |
| 13 | I certainly would n't have been invited back to the Parsons ' , but I could have lived with that . |
| 14 | Detective Inspector Gerry Wright says although she had heart disease she may well have lived for several years , if it had n't been for the sudden shock of finding two men in her house . |
| 15 | The village of Weston in which Leapor would have lived for some time was six miles north of Brackley . |
| 16 | It is not only me , I think of all the millions who must have lived like this in the war . |
| 17 | No duke or Guinness heir could ever have lived in such opulence . |
| 18 | The basic problem in the layout is precisely that of Chedworth — finding the house where an owner who could afford such engineering could have lived in any style . |
| 19 | His personal effects were valued at less than £1,000 , but the family must have lived in some style , since one of the witnesses to the will was the resident coachman . |
| 20 | I say this having lived in such a time , and am GLAD that if such is coming upon the FIFTH DOMINION again . |
| 21 | And , indeed , he must have been a tough little lad to have survived it all , though it was to take its toll on him eventually ; by the time he died in far-away London at the age of 29 he had lived through some very harsh times indeed . |
| 22 | Until very recently the Inuit , the true Arctic folk , lived as their ancestors had lived during those early days of coastal occupation , in small , nomadic groups with rich culture but few material possessions ( Birket-Smith , 1959 ; Herbert , 1976 ) . |
| 23 | Jessamy closed her eyes and wondered how she had lived without this sweet physical contact for so long . |
| 24 | No one had lived on that hillside for nineteen centuries . |
| 25 | The couple had lived for many years on a narrow pedestrian street known quite simply as ‘ Behind the Hill ’ ( later Paul Street ) , a useful little short-cut between Palmer Street and Catherine Hill . |
| 26 | Regional officers had lived for many years with successive waves of moral outrage about the scandalous conditions within the asylums . |
| 27 | , ( Arthur ) Oswald ( 1868–1939 ) , journalist and heraldist , was born 3 January 1868 in London , where his family had lived for many generations , the only child of Henry Stracey Barron ( 1838–1918 ) , engineer in Constantinople , and his wife Harriet Marshall ( 1836–1918 ) . |
| 28 | Listening to the autumn wind moaning across this corner of the sparse Northumberland coastline a few miles south of Berwick-upon-Tweed , where Nora Simpson had lived for all of her married life , their memories of her were vivid . |
| 29 | Dot had lived like this for ever . |
| 30 | Even though members of my family were born in different areas of the world , it does n't mean that we had lived in all of these areas . |