Example sentences of "live a [adj] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the glamorous careers she creates for her clients , Sarah herself lives a low-key life in Battersea with her daughters Noelle , 13 , and 13-month-old Genevieve . |
| 2 | What does a miner who has irreparable damage to his lungs and lives a miserable life say when he reads of huge awards of damages in libel actions ? |
| 3 | She insists she lives a frugal life . |
| 4 | Zola had written : ‘ Yet these women are not bad , their errors and their disgrace are caused by the impossibility of living a straight life in the midst of the gossip and calumny of the Faubourgs . ’ |
| 5 | The anxiety of the papal reformers to put all clergy under a rule shows that experience suggested to them that celibacy could only be enforced on monks or folk living a quasi-monastic life . |
| 6 | At first , I was angry ; then I was living a new life — other things to think about , other people to consider . |
| 7 | He fretted in bed he was used to doing things , living a practical life . |
| 8 | It was only when he was confronted by God , broken and forced to give up his pride , that he began to see clearly for the first time the vast difference between living a self-directed life and living for God . |
| 9 | Holiness , sanctification , living of Godly life , living a pure life they 're not the criteria , they 're not , they 're not , God requires that of us , but they are not requirements for receiving the Holy Spirit . |
| 10 | If she had done as he had suggested , become a doctor maybe , or a teacher , he would be alive today and she would be living a normal life . |
| 11 | After 1,908 days of terror Joe was looking forward to living a normal life and getting back to work as a senior administrator with the American University . |
| 12 | We can start living a normal life again now . ’ |
| 13 | He swore his family to secrecy and tried to continue living a normal life , making regular stage appearances and several movies . |
| 14 | But you ca n't stop that child from living a normal life . |
| 15 | I had neglected my friends , family , job , social life , virtually everything to do with living a normal life . |
| 16 | In the first issue , Owen finds out he has diabetes and we follow him through his first visit to the doctor and then at the hospital , as he learns how to manage diabetes so that he can go on living a normal life . |
| 17 | For both Myfanwy and Andrew O'Donnell — simply living a normal life is an achievement in itself — something which was recognised at today 's award ceremony in Westminster . |
| 18 | Laura 's father Les said : ‘ We are looking forward to getting back and living a normal life and having a great Christmas together as a family . ’ |
| 19 | He 'd got high blood pressure , he was n't in any pain he 's living a normal life . |
| 20 | Although anti-abortionists would maintain that it is morally wrong to dispose of a child even if it will live no longer than a week at the most , many more people doubt the right of a mother to dispose of a child with Down 's Syndrome who stands a very good chance of living a lengthy life . |
| 21 | A lonely , miserable wretch , living a furtive life in a shabby room somewhere , uncared for , unmourned , and it could have happened to her husband , to herself , Omi … the War could have done that , its implacable hand wiping out all human ties . |
| 22 | Today he 's living a quiet life in Bromyard . |
| 23 | He finally finds contentment in living a basic life and repaying Joe what he owes him and he soon realises that he could have been happy staying with Joe in the forge . |
| 24 | When that bastard was dead , maybe he would start living a proper life , a life that he hoped would include Kate Burrows . |
| 25 | I , too , was living a double life . |
| 26 | When the abuse begins she has fits , slowly she finds a way of coping by living a double life ; her life , the one she chooses and controls , exists outside her father 's house . |
| 27 | The smaller resident landowners lived a simple life and were , like the Basque nobility , interested in the reform movement of the late eighteenth century and supplied many of its leaders . |
| 28 | The boy was so far from being ill-used or closely confined that he apparently lived a normal life , at least within the walls , going and coming much as he pleased , and eating in hall like a member of the household . |
| 29 | It sometimes meant he lived a hectic life , especially when the band were playing far from Leeds . |
| 30 | you lived a young life did n't you ? |