Example sentences of "who live " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter Ackroyd is all of the formidable pasticheur that he is praised for being , and Dyer 's tale , which affects to be that of someone who lived in the eighteenth century , and in which the element of imitation , present in writing of every kind , is more obtrusive than it is in the other tale , is the livelier of the two . |
| 2 | T. Behrens 's book commemorates a young couple who lived together for seventeen years in a solitude à deux and who then took their own lives — incompetently and lingeringly . |
| 3 | ‘ Who lived here , Don ? ’ she asked him . |
| 4 | To men who lived on what they could pick up from articles and reviews , the ultimate weapon implied more than lack of a showcase : it implied starvation … |
| 5 | On the contrary , the two young persons communicate in a jokily affectionate private language , often about people in a not undistinguished but certainly restricted circle of acquaintances and Shakespear connections , who lived according to social codes now utterly unremembered . |
| 6 | So do major prints by Sam Francis ( who lived and worked for a while in Japan ) . |
| 7 | Although only fragments remain , Dunseverick manages not to be outdone in the legend stakes ; Conal Caernach who lived here is said to have witnessed the crucifixion of Christ while serving in the Roman army . |
| 8 | That evening Sid and I dined off piping hot oxtail soup , steak and kidney pie , followed by a very rich plum duff , all washed down with a bottle of French cider , given to us by the old Frenchman who lived in the cottage near the entrance to the orchard . |
| 9 | After breakfasting with the mortar team I made my way over to Brigade H.Q As I passed along the wall of the orchard I suddenly thought about the Frenchman and his family who lived in the cottage on the other side of the wall . |
| 10 | The house , nevertheless , had visitors interesting to the children ; a couple of famous Congregationalist laymen Frank Salter and Bernard Manning , both of whom were historians and riotous rompers with children ; the Reddaway children who lived next door ; the daughters of G. G. Coulton the English hammer of Popes ; and the friendship between the two sets of children caused Coulton to take an interest in Michael and carry him off to the village church at Coton to see medieval graffiti . |
| 11 | Hoskyns believed that these new methods could prove that the alleged contrast between Jesus and Paul was wrong ; and that there was an identity between the Jesus who lived in Palestine and the Christ who was the object of the faith of the apostolic Church . |
| 12 | The first thing that struck the other dons who lived in the Castle was his oddness . |
| 13 | There were the Lucas boys with their model railway , there were a couple of evacuees with their mothers , there was a German Jewess refugee with her adopted child , there was a friend who lived with them and helped at a school and her children were in and out a lot . |
| 14 | Young John Lucas , who lived hard by and sat on Professor Ramsey 's head to recite Greek verbs , heard stories from his father of Ramsey taking on atheists in the university in public debate and wiping the floor with them . |
| 15 | Some of the Scotsmen talked of getting Ramsey as Bishop of Edinburgh but not enough of the Scotsmen wanted an Englishman and no doubt there were those who wondered whether this professor who lived among clouds of glory would make a bishop who perforce lived in a too real world . |
| 16 | At sixteen they had her married to a cousin who lived about a mile away . |
| 17 | In a recent study performed by the authors , however , old people who lived at home were asked to record their habits each day ( times of waking , eating , visiting friends , sleeping , etc ) for a ‘ typical week ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ The Beyers rang , ’ Frau Nordern said , mentioning some friendly acquaintances who lived a couple of streets away . |
| 19 | ‘ I think that Fräulein Silber was right , ’ she said , reading a letter from an obscure , elderly maiden cousin who lived in an even more obscure district of the country . |
| 20 | Community architecture had come about as a reaction to the tower blocks of the 1960s which were clearly not working : they had led to vandalism and mugging and terrifying isolation for the people who lived in them . |
| 21 | However , it 's impossible for anyone who lived through those times to settle down to cosy domesticity , the world without adventure that Marius Goring offers Shearer . |
| 22 | Mr Zivkovic , a draughtsman who lived in Britain for 24 years after the war but now lives in Tasmania , Australia , was giving evidence for the defence in Lord Aldington 's libel action over allegations by Mr Nikolai Tolstoy and Mr Nigel Watts that he is a war criminal responsible for the forced repatriation of 70,000 Cossacks and Yugoslavs . |
| 23 | At Baker Street , tiles showing a profile with a deerstalker hat and a curvaceous pipe : Sherlock Holmes , who lived in Baker Street . |
| 24 | After that he learned first to carry with him everywhere his own survival kit of razor , toothpaste and cigarettes against the likelihood of arrest , and then to survive years in prison surrounded by gaolers like characters out of his own plays , who lived by the laws of the regime 's own absurdist , reality-denying logic . |
| 25 | No records remain as to who lived here through the seventeenth century , when during the Civil War a bloody battle took place on the Manor 's doorstep . |
| 26 | Maud Heath was a pedlar woman who lived on Wick Hill and walked four and a half miles , past Kellaways , to Chippenham each morning . |
| 27 | Among his young parishioners was Whittington 's famous son , William Sturgeon , the physicist who lived in the cottage next to the Rectory and befriended the Horton family . |
| 28 | The Lake House ( sometimes called the Orangery ) which stands in the grounds of Frampton Court , was almost certainly designed by William Halfpenny or his son John , who lived near Bristol in the 1740s . |
| 29 | Henry Woolhouse Disney Roebuck was a notorious gambler who lived in Bath . |
| 30 | So the property passed to his eldest sister 's son the Reverend Richard Rowland Ward and it was he and Mrs Ward who lived out their architectural fantasies . |