Example sentences of "lived to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heart experts never tire of pointing out that Winston Churchill started life as a frail premature baby , went on to smoke , drink heavily and eat to the point of obesity , but lived to a great age , whereas Nathan Pritikin , inventor of the Pritikin diet , died a premature death despite being obsessed with health . |
| 2 | His speciality is fifteenth-century Italian painting , but an exhibition on that theme is an impossibility nowadays , as very few institutions will lend panel paintings , so he has chosen to examine how Giorgione and Titian defined Venetian painting throughout the sixteenth century : ‘ Titian , of course , lived to a great age , dying in 1576 , but although Giorgione died in 1510 , his influence is also pervasive ’ . |
| 3 | Rhodes , like Peel , lived to a great age ; others did not ; and one was killed in action . |
| 4 | I know we have all heard of cases where someone has smoked sixty cigarettes a day and still lived to a ripe old age — but is it really worth taking the chance ? |
| 5 | I have had no problem with them — nor did I when I originally starting keeping fish when I kept three that lived to a ripe old age . |
| 6 | as if to make up for the early deaths of her sisters , she lived to a ripe old age , dying in the Almshouses at Dorking on 4 November 1855 , aged eighty-seven . |
| 7 | Well th having said that Gordon , your mother lived to a good old age , and my mum , and my father did . |