Example sentences of "to live a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother wanted to live a posh life and have dinner parties with other rich Jews and cook gefilte fish and wear a wig and dance with fashionable rabbis at weddings , you can imagine how Dad took to that . |
| 2 | And the woman respected for her concern for the sick and deprived is told : ‘ Not to love is not to live , or it is to live a living death . |
| 3 | Christians in particular have trouble with this part of the grief response because so often it seems that Christians are not meant to be angry — especially when the feeling is commonly directed towards God personally , as it were : ‘ I try to live a good life and see what He has let happen … |
| 4 | It is not simply a question of becoming nicer or trying harder to live a good life . |
| 5 | He practises what he has always preached — respect and tolerance for people of whatever religion , who try to live a good life by their own creed . |
| 6 | As far as I know , she went on to live a long life , enjoyed the notoriety , and used it to advantage in the family business , exploiting rumours of her Evil Eye to scare off creditors , and to get the best out of every bargain . ’ |
| 7 | And he may have to live a long time with the third . |
| 8 | This restrained attitude did , at least , enable farm cats and some town cats to live a tolerable life as unloved pest-controllers , but for certain village cats life was far more unpleasant . |
| 9 | From the mid tenth century we hear — at first very occasionally , then rather more often — of great nobles from the west who went to Jerusalem , not to die , but to live a great act of penance . |
| 10 | Insulin injections allow the majority to live a normal life but the control over blood sugar is not as efficient as the body 's own mechanism . |
| 11 | He too , could start to live a normal life again . |
| 12 | More recently , the couple made a brave effort to live a normal life for the children . |
| 13 | John , 43 , whose weight has dropped to 8st 12lb , said that he tried to live a normal life for as long as possible . |
| 14 | Actually he simply likes to live a normal life and keeps himself to himself , but in the end he decided that he would do it . |
| 15 | I tend to live a normal life . |
| 16 | Unable to live a normal life , he emigrated to the USA in September 1818 . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've almost forgotten what it 's like to live a normal life , ’ she said drily . |
| 18 | She presented them with the annual Child of Achievement awards , given to children who 've overcome extraordinary difficulties just to live a normal life . |
| 19 | You want me to live a middle-class life . " |
| 20 | Susan made an effort to imagine what it would be like to live a settled life with a partner she saw every day . |
| 21 | These needs must include the needs to live a natural life and not be used for invasive procedures or be kept in restrictive confinement . |
| 22 | As for his goodness , the attempt to live a Christian life was so much a part of Irwin 's public persona that the legend became current that , arriving in India on Good Friday , he ignored the official ceremonies of welcome and went straight to church . |
| 23 | It would not be possible to live a Christian life on the shifting . |
| 24 | If I had found the cramped interior of the U-boat at Kiel oppressive , it was nothing to the claustrophobia I felt inside the midget submarine , and I marvelled again at the courage and calm that had enabled Place and his crew to live a daily life in such surroundings , far less undertake and brilliantly accomplish their mission . |
| 25 | to live a fulfilling life |
| 26 | Of the four brothers who went to war , only Thomas Bradford , who won a Distinguished Service Order , survived and returned to County Durham to live a full life until his death aged 80 in 1966 . |
| 27 | For the middle classes , able to live a comfortable life with servants to take care of domestic matters and to minister to the needs of dependent members of the household , giving a home to an elderly relative would not have meant the automatic provision of unpaid care by female relatives . |
| 28 | Victoria had accused me of trying to thrust myself into the action while pretending I want to live a quiet life . |
| 29 | Back in England I found a house and began to live a quiet life . |
| 30 | Though always happy at Saint Cloud , the Emperor had a weakness for the great palace of Fontainebleau , perhaps because of its associations with Napoleon I. Because of the magnificence of the palace it was impossible to live a quiet family life and so June was a month of great social activity , a sort of informal summer Court , at which was to be found the glittering society so indelibly associated with the regime . |