Example sentences of "i 've [vb pp] a [adj] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've lived a long life — a useful one too , I hope . |
| 2 | I 've lived a good life . |
| 3 | So , though I had a bad time , well I had a , I 've had a great life since ! |
| 4 | I 've had a long life and many blessings and you 've been one of the best . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've had a marvellous life and enjoyed every minute of it , but it 's over and now I want to move on . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Well , I would say that after a rotten beginning I 've had a good life — That 's not very helpful , is it ? ’ |
| 7 | I 've had a good life , on the whole . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Then I thought , My Gorgeous Life , because I 've had a gorgeous life and I 'm still having one . |
| 9 | ELL , I 've had a happy life ’ — as Hazlitt may not have said after all , in which case bang goes the cheeriest of all the Famous Last Words . |
| 10 | Betrayed by that shit Sarah Walker who was once his landlord 's daughter , plunged into crippling debt , mocked by polite society and dinner-table assassins , tortured by a cancer of the stomach , he could still prop himself up on one elbow in a room as shabby as this one and say exultantly ‘ Well , I 've had a happy life ! ’ |
| 11 | But er , I suppose I had a happy lif well I know I 've had a happy life . |
| 12 | and she 's got arthritis , well in her knees , same as I have but not quite so bad because er , well up to now , but then again she 's younger than I am er several years younger than me and , but she 's getting on and so is Jack you see and er , and er so erm I 've had a , as I say , I 've had , I 've had a wonderful life really . |