Example sentences of "have [verb] a [adj] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Irina has had a terrible life . ’ |
| 2 | Despite her screen success , Bardot has had a troubled life . |
| 3 | ACAS has had a troubled life and its powers have been limited and subjected to greater ministerial control by the Employment Act 1980 . |
| 4 | The former Benedictine monastery of St George has found a new life as a museum and is well worth visiting . |
| 5 | Mr D'Sa added : ‘ He is an old and ill priest who suffers from arthritis and has led a blameless life . |
| 6 | By his own admission he has led a charmed life . |
| 7 | Joe is a man who has led a promiscuous life . |
| 8 | The man survived the war and told the tale and has lived a purposeful life ever since , seeking to carry on Kolbe 's work of reconciliation . |
| 9 | Poor old thing — but she 'd had a good life by all accounts . ’ |
| 10 | He said he 'd had a hard life . |
| 11 | Aunt Alicia was old , she kept telling herself , and she 'd had a full life , and she died in her sleep with no pain , but somehow it did not seem to make it much better . |
| 12 | My breathing was not too good — I 'd led a soft life these past months . |
| 13 | Despite early suggestions she 'd started a new life in South Wales , she has never been found . |
| 14 | Now when retirement comes I shall have built a new life for myself and also be able to manage on a lower income . |
| 15 | We have spoken about old partners as if they will always have had a long life together and that is indeed the case in many of the pairs whom we currently encounter . |
| 16 | If it were n't for Lennie , George could have had a peaceful life and have married someone but it is this power of ‘ deep-inside ’ love which kept them together . |
| 17 | I 'll have had a good life , and I 'll have tried , and I 'll have made something of myself . |
| 18 | The only way he can justify it to himself , is the belief that otherwise the animal would have had a miserable life . |
| 19 | Well any wife of his would have had a miserable life ! |
| 20 | ‘ You must have had a full life ? ’ |
| 21 | But maybe they should n't have — she must have known a better life before this , and what right had they to claim her as their own without having brought her up ? |
| 22 | This miraculous event caused Massaccio immediately to repent his past life , and he became a Benedictine monk , dying at a great age with the reputation of having led a saintly life in his chosen monastery . |
| 23 | A gentle schoolmaster with old-fashioned notions of courtesy and decency , he might have led a still life behind glass if Irina had n't rescued him . |
| 24 | He inherited wealth and could have lived a leisured life but preferred to pursue his earlier interest in natural philosophy . |
| 25 | The Modernists had enjoyed a brief life as a London group after Pound settled there for a dozen years in 1908 ; Bloomsbury was already one , first in Cambridge and later in London and Sussex , sharing not just a range of assumptions and convictions but an intimate web of social and amorous relations . |
| 26 | ‘ If you 've made a new life for yourself , what are you doing here ? ’ she challenged . |
| 27 | By 1978 , their father had made a new life in Beirut where he met and married Gail , a nurse . |
| 28 | She had made a new life for herself now in London , a better , much more successful life than Dublin . |
| 29 | Good , Example three where you 've got a joint life policy , the male gives you the page name , the female will give you the , because it will say joint life , and it will have the female age in groups . |
| 30 | ‘ Sure , we 've got a fine life going here . |