Example sentences of "lived for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We lived for it , in between homes and restaurants . ’ |
| 2 | In all the cases the cancer had spread to other organs , giving poor survival chances ; but on average the patients who received pyschological treatment lived for 37 months while those who did not lived 19 months on average . |
| 3 | He had very red hair and a pale complexion with masses of freckles all over his face , he was very popular with everyone and lived for the day when he could join the Army , particularly the Camerons . |
| 4 | He travelled widely in those days , often accompanied by his wife , and they lived for two years in the United States where he was responsible for ICI 's affairs in North and South America . |
| 5 | An internal inquiry has been carried out by Ealing social services , in whose area Christopher lived for most of the last weeks of his life , but no serious professional errors were found . |
| 6 | She lived for occasions and would not miss one for the world . |
| 7 | Christopher Petrie and Jane lived for a year as neighbours : he in the manor and she in the stables-converted cottage , which she made much cosier and more inviting than the manor — one reason perhaps why Christopher spent so much time there . |
| 8 | ‘ After that he lived for our visits and started repeating ‘ Stroke , stroke , stroke ’ about six times . |
| 9 | When this second marriage broke down in 1963 , Simenon was already having an affair with another maid , Teresa Sburelin , with whom he lived for the rest of his life . |
| 10 | This was not , as some believe , originally owned by Sir Thomas More , but a later manor belonging to Henry VIII , where the young Princess Elizabeth lived for a while . |
| 11 | She can rarely have travelled , for example , more than fifteen miles from Brackley , Northamptonshire , where she lived for most of her twenty-four years . |
| 12 | He lived for twenty years with the family as a lodger with meals included : ‘ he had a home with us , all those years . ’ |
| 13 | It is a remarkable finding from these interviews that of those informants who married before 1918 almost half — and over half if we include those with soldier husbands — lived for an initial period , sometimes brief but often two or more years , with one of their parents before moving into a house of their own . |
| 14 | The son of a drunken soldier lived for six years with his grandmother in one room . |
| 15 | The late Miss Pepper , who lived for some years at The Bield , spoke of the ‘ throwing up ’ of fleeces during clipping to a helper on the gallery . |
| 16 | She lived for many years , and preserved a record that she had been treated with Penicillium . |
| 17 | Patients lived for many years , and some died from causes unrelated to their blood pressure . |
| 18 | As Christ lived for others in his relationships , so we must serve others , not only in marriage , but in all our friendships and other relationships . |
| 19 | But I thought : this was the moment they lived for . |
| 20 | The Palazzo Peschiere in Genoa where CD and his family lived for eight months during 1844–5 . |
| 21 | In the entrance hall of he present church the 20 bronze plaques commemorate both old and young — from Desmond William Green , who lived for 6 weeks , to many who died in the fullness of age . |
| 22 | In the famous Middletown studies made by Robert and Helen Lynd the Lynds lived for a time in Muncie , Indiana , but were always known to be researchers . |
| 23 | He was a brilliant scholar , and lived for some time at ‘ Titeup Hall , ’ Dalton . |
| 24 | He is actually the third Aldabra tortoise imported for the governor 's garden , each of his predecessors , however , lived for about a century . |
| 25 | He lived for most of the time at his family seat at Laxton Hall , Northamptonshire , with his wife and only daughter , and frequented St. Saviour 's Church for the Deaf in London . |
| 26 | And while Toff claims his techniques are very much part of the English slipware tradition , his pots often look like something out of Africa , where he lived for several years . |
| 27 | I had no sister , I went to all-boys schools , I lived out of town , never went to parties and while for others girlfriends were the in-thing , I lived for sport . ’ |
| 28 | The calf lived for fifteen days . |
| 29 | He had broken more bones in his body riding horses that anyone she knew , yet he lived for his hunting . |
| 30 | For instance , this year there will be a film marking the centenary of Leo Walmsley , the novelist who lived for many years at Robin Hood 's Bay . |