Example sentences of "lived in for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles Chaplin left for London , to present his film Limelight , and chose exile when he was told he would be examined on his fitness to re-enter the country he had lived in for forty years . |
| 2 | But her deep tanned face had been lived in for a fistful of decades . |
| 3 | Snow lying in the sun and making the place we had lived in for years suddenly fresh and rare . |
| 4 | What a way to return to the city I had lived in for ten too-long years and had left with but a rucksack on my back only a couple of months previously . |
| 5 | The traumatic experiences the men had already been through — the drama of the inrush of slurry , the knowledge that they were entombed , the foul air they had lived in for two days , and the threat of the gathering gas — meant that the half-mile walk wearing apparatus , and a further one and a half miles to the surface , would be a severe test of their remaining stamina and resolve . |
| 6 | If the property has been lived in for a long time with old carpets that have never been shampooed they can exude quite pungent odours . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's just that I thought you should n't be able to turn people out of places they 've lived in for years , it does n't make sense . |
| 8 | The house was n't run-down , either , but there were touches here and there betraying the fact 64 that it had n't been lived in for a couple of years ; the windows that were n't shuttered were n't clean , and there were weeds pushing up through the gravel . |
| 9 | You 're well-matched with Doreen , who was ready to kick an old lady out of the home she 'd lived in for years . ’ |
| 10 | The Wilsons were made homeless when the rented house they had lived in for three years was seized by the building society their landlord had not been paying his mortgage . |