Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] a [adj] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You must have had a full life ? ’ |
| 2 | I 'll have had a good life , and I 'll have tried , and I 'll have made something of myself . |
| 3 | A gentle schoolmaster with old-fashioned notions of courtesy and decency , he might have led a still life behind glass if Irina had n't rescued him . |
| 4 | He inherited wealth and could have lived a leisured life but preferred to pursue his earlier interest in natural philosophy . |
| 5 | If it were n't for Lennie , George could have had a peaceful life and have married someone but it is this power of ‘ deep-inside ’ love which kept them together . |
| 6 | The only way he can justify it to himself , is the belief that otherwise the animal would have had a miserable life . |
| 7 | Well any wife of his would have had a miserable life ! |
| 8 | Now when retirement comes I shall have built a new life for myself and also be able to manage on a lower income . |