Example sentences of "lived a [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the room there were many family pictures , and one of them was of a very beautiful woman , Lady Amelia , who lived a hundred and fifty years ago . |
| 2 | Prince and his followers lived a dissolute and ostentatious life of great luxury , and Prince drove around the neighbourhood in a carriage and horses , accompanied by bloodhounds . |
| 3 | After his unfair sacking he retired here to Sedgebrook and ‘ lived a quiet and private life ’ . |
| 4 | He thought he knew Ash fairly well , as well as anyone might know a man whose life seemed to be all in his mind , who lived a quiet and exemplary married life for forty years , whose correspondence was voluminous indeed , but guarded , courteous and not of the most lively . |
| 5 | I had an uncle who , like my father , had become a railway official and lived a quiet and decent middle-class life . |
| 6 | He lived a full and active life . |