Example sentences of "have have 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 | Poor old thing — but she 'd had a good life by all accounts . ’ |
| 5 | He said he 'd had a hard life . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I 'll have had a good life , and I 'll have tried , and I 'll have made something of myself . |
| 10 | The only way he can justify it to himself , is the belief that otherwise the animal would have had a miserable life . |
| 11 | Well any wife of his would have had a miserable life ! |
| 12 | ‘ You must have had a full life ? ’ |
| 13 | For he had had a peaceful life of it with Yanek , up on the mountain . |
| 14 | Worse still , he was ungrateful : everyone told him that his mother had had a hard life , that she worked her fingers to the bone , but it meant nothing to him . |
| 15 | She gave this powerful sense of her character 's emotional repression , and the sense was there that she had had a hard life . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , I would say that after a rotten beginning I 've had a good life — That 's not very helpful , is it ? ’ |
| 17 | I 've had a good life , on the whole . ’ |
| 18 | So , though I had a bad time , well I had a , I 've had a great life since ! |
| 19 | Lucy , resisting the temptation to blow at her fringe , said , ‘ You sound like you 've had a great life . ’ |
| 20 | I 've had a long life and many blessings and you 've been one of the best . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've had a marvellous life and enjoyed every minute of it , but it 's over and now I want to move on . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ Then I thought , My Gorgeous Life , because I 've had a gorgeous life and I 'm still having one . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ! ’ |
| 26 | But er , I suppose I had a happy lif well I know I 've had a happy life . |
| 27 | You have had a long life of service and time to look back on it and if I did not know how your arthritis troubles you and with what difficulty you pen your kind notes I would ask you to help me in this . |
| 28 | My mouth 's had a new life since that day . |
| 29 | She 's had a hard life , she has — braiding fishing nets for trawlers , cleaning out the Findus offices down dock , gutting fish in the fish market . |
| 30 | Mum 's had a hard life . |