Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] had live for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Indeed , writing the novel ( Nice Work ) was for me a process of discovery — of hitherto unknown aspects of the city in which I had lived for nearly thirty years . ’ |
| 2 | The judge held that the child 's welfare required that she be adopted by the foster parents with whom she had lived for three of her five years , and that the parents were withholding agreement unreasonably . |
| 3 | The bulk of his estate went to his common-law wife , Sarah Dovekin or Dufkin , a former servant of Mrs Manley , with whom he had lived for over twenty years . |
| 4 | The boy , Gregory Kingsley , gave evidence that his biological mother , with whom he had lived for only seven months in the eight years prior to the case , had neglected and abandoned him . |
| 5 | She could hardly bear to think the thought , but it did seem to her that anyone who had lived for so many years with her mother could be excused for a certain lack of joie de vivre . |