Example sentences of "lived a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have n't lived a normal life . |
| 2 | I 've lived a long life — a useful one too , I hope . |
| 3 | Feel as if I had lived a long time and done very little . |
| 4 | You 're not old nan you 've just lived a long time |
| 5 | When , as part of my training , I was regressed under hypnosis by my late husband ( also a qualified hypnotherapist ) , I did indeed turn out to have lived during the Tudor period — but I was a pig-farmer 's daughter who , having lived a pitiful existence , died from a gangrenous leg at the age of fifteen . |
| 6 | ‘ I have lived a great deal in other centuries . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ One has lived a certain amount of life , ’ Haverford admitted , swigging the Guinness Fosdyke served with the steak and kidney ( 'no particular point in just opening another bottle of Chianti in Chiantishire' ) . |
| 8 | I 've lived a good life . |
| 9 | She moved to the door and glanced back , warming to her mother , it was not often she expressed affection or even concern , she was a hard woman who had lived a difficult life but now and then a little softness crept into Win Morgan 's eyes that betrayed the real woman beneath the stern exterior . |
| 10 | It was pleasant to live in the open , and easy to provision both men and ponies ; and the courtier and man of law who had lived a high life in the London Inns and colleges , and been in the king 's own service , was nonetheless a hardy Welshman , well able to campaign in the hills winter or summer , and never complain of a hard bed or a scanty meal . |
| 11 | So he set off and met a gardener , who had also lived a hermetic life , and also longed for company . |
| 12 | More often than not you get a refund cos of course you have personal allowances for a whole year but you 've not er not er lived a whole year as often as not and therefore there usually spaced over the twelve months and you 've paid a bit too much tax if you 've died in the course of the twelve months . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He inherited wealth and could have lived a leisured life but preferred to pursue his earlier interest in natural philosophy . |