Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could never have imagined , however , how rich my life was going to be : how many friends we were to make , the places in the world we were to visit , and all the wealth of love and kindness from others we were to experience . |
| 2 | So , concentrate on this and I 'm , I 'm , must get round to , I 'm sorry my life has been in turmoil because of the , the dog situation , Jean and I have n't been up to the West End , but erm , I , I know which book I want , I want to get you , erm , and yes , I want you to do this , so and this actually it 's very good , very difficult , good , do a bit of technic . |
| 3 | When I look back , I see how easy and comfortable and pleasant my life was , and I took it all for granted ! |
| 4 | Charlie 's departure is the first of several , and this event is succeeded by the announcement of a further theme when the rabbi 's thunderings pass over the heads of his congregation and the writer notes : ‘ in later years I would wonder how different my life might have been if a few people , those closest to me , had been frightened — just a little . ’ |
| 5 | I often wondered how different my life might have been if I had had a wife and family to come home to all these years . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm going to get drunk , to hell , I 've been half drunk half my life , who gives a fuck if I 'm drunk again ? |
| 7 | ‘ I spend half my life changing beds , stuffing the washing machine and emptying wastepaper baskets . ’ |
| 8 | I 've wasted half my life in misery and loneliness , but now I 've found you . |
| 9 | In all this my life was not novel , except that it had no witnesses , because I was an only child . |
| 10 | A fair city , something dishevelled after uneasy times , and hampered and straitened now -by the loss of the thriving Welsh trade which was half its life , but still capable of living on its own fat for some while yet , and still hard to take and invaluable to hold . |
| 11 | And she had so perfected this technique of politely disappearing , that she had to live almost half her life before she came to realize that she had almost disappeared to her own self ! |
| 12 | Rose knew many of the people on the platform even though she had spent half her life in Scotland and she responded to each greeting with warmth , careful to watch that her friendliness did not grate on Moran . |
| 13 | She had lived almost half her life amid violence . |
| 14 | In the rucksack in which she seemed to keep half her life she burrowed and came up with a biro and writing-pad . |
| 15 | They spend half their lives underground in darkness or near-darkness and touch , smell and hearing convey as much or more to them than sight . |
| 16 | At least they 're not spending half their lives standing in queues . ’ |
| 17 | The trick is to make the qualification time long enough so that the people who go to a club towards the end of their career and get large transfer bonuses do not qualify , but short enough for the players to feel that they will not have to wait half their lives to get theirs . |
| 18 | Meeting him aroused something inside her and made her realise how empty her life really was . |
| 19 | The Government says it 's been a great success — those living close to its route say its ruined their lives . |
| 20 | Taking only the period in which this book has been written , and limiting the location to the UK , there have been numerous similar press-provoked scandals in which the homosexual has kept turning up where he or she should not , especially at the ‘ respectable ’ centre of things : in MI5 , the Houses of Parliament , as parliamentary candidate , schoolteacher , council employee , prison chaplain , vicar , guard to the Queen Mother , film star , circuit judge , to cite only some ( and some whose lives have been destroyed by homophobic media harassment ) . |
| 21 | He has Hungary 's second highest academic title in Marxist philosophy , has spent half his life teaching and disseminating the official ideology , and is one of the leaders of the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party , which calls itself the ‘ vanguard of the working class ’ . |
| 22 | The consultant has explained that Tourette 's Syndrome is a rare and unfortunate condition , and he should fucking well know about those , he 's right off the Christmas tree , probably spent half his life sucking strange men 's cocks or taking it up the arsehole in a public loo in the Charing Cross Road . |
| 23 | He had come to France ( in which he spent more than half his life as king of England ) and had , as contemporaries recognised , achieved considerable conquests , something which his predecessors had never done on that scale or within so short a period of time . |
| 24 | He 's come here with a fixed idea , which he 's been looking forward to for half his life . |
| 25 | Daddy 's just as bad spends half his life visiting patients , most of whom were never able to pay their bills . |
| 26 | He was by origin a Londoner , but spent more than half his life in Bishop 's Castle and will be remembered with affection by many people in the district . |
| 27 | Except he had lived with them-the wild free ones in the mountains and the wild caught ones up at San Carlos-about half his life and that made the difference . |
| 28 | George , not unlike his subject , has spent about half his life in Ireland west , north and south he tells me I said why not Dublin and he says that 's what I meant |
| 29 | He mused on how different his life would have been if he had met Viola when he was twenty-two , or rather someone like her , for she would not even have been a twinkle in her parents ' eyes at that stage . |
| 30 | During this period of uncertainty , Jean-Claude was as anxious as I. He never missed the opportunity to tell me how different his life had become since I moved in with him : he was happy now , he could work . |