Example sentences of "have a [adj] life " in BNC.
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31 | So , though I had a bad time , well I had a , I 've had a great life since ! |
32 | Lucy , resisting the temptation to blow at her fringe , said , ‘ You sound like you 've had a great life . ’ |
33 | 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 . |
34 | I 've had a long life and many blessings and you 've been one of the best . |
35 | 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 . |
36 | ‘ Irina has had a terrible life . ’ |
37 | ‘ Well , I would say that after a rotten beginning I 've had a good life — That 's not very helpful , is it ? ’ |
38 | I 'll have had a good life , and I 'll have tried , and I 'll have made something of myself . |
39 | I 've had a good life , on the whole . ’ |
40 | Poor old thing — but she 'd had a good life by all accounts . ’ |
41 | ‘ I 've had a marvellous life and enjoyed every minute of it , but it 's over and now I want to move on . ’ |
42 | For he had had a peaceful life of it with Yanek , up on the mountain . |
43 | 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 . |
44 | ‘ You must have had a full life ? ’ |
45 | 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 . |
46 | Despite her screen success , Bardot has had a troubled life . |
47 | ACAS has had a troubled life and its powers have been limited and subjected to greater ministerial control by the Employment Act 1980 . |
48 | 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 . |
49 | 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 ! ’ |
50 | But er , I suppose I had a happy lif well I know I 've had a happy life . |
51 | The only way he can justify it to himself , is the belief that otherwise the animal would have had a miserable life . |
52 | Well any wife of his would have had a miserable life ! |
53 | well she 's had a miserable life of her own kind of thing . |
54 | ‘ I have n't had a dramatic life , ’ he adds . |
55 | 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 . |
56 | 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 . |
57 | He said he 'd had a hard life . |
58 | 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 . |
59 | Mum 's had a hard life . |
60 | She gave this powerful sense of her character 's emotional repression , and the sense was there that she had had a hard life . |