Example sentences of "had a [adj] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Katherine had drawn it all with snail-like whorls of her pen , a multitude of curving strokes , so that the landscape had a hectic life of its own , at once like and unlike itself . |
| 2 | She had a rotten life . |
| 3 | Ruth Hill-Williams writes : J.P.M.Millar had a long life ( obituary , December 7 ) , and his death signals the end of an era . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , this peculiar combination had a long life and was destined to reappear in the Middle Ages as the Albigensian heresy that flourished for a while in southern France but was eventually crushed in the first quarter of the thirteenth century by the northern French at the command of the most powerful of the medieval Popes , Innocent III . |
| 5 | The ‘ direct ’ reversing Bolinder engines remained popular , however , because they were simple and easier to maintain and had a long life . |
| 6 | The mines were large and had a long life and fitted in with RTZ 's strategic objectives , he added . |
| 7 | Their expectations are high because many of them have , until recently , had a middle-class life and outlook ( ie. the East African Asians ) and because , unlike the British working class , they have not been ground down and prepared for their jobs by the British education system . |
| 8 | Vera , his wife — ‘ She had a terrible life with me , ’ he told Glorious . |
| 9 | Oh lovely lass , Erica really nice , been married before , but she had a terrible life |
| 10 | The United Kingdom had a serious balance of payments problem in manufactured goods , which was only partly disguised by the revenue beginning to flood in from North Sea oil , which had a limited life . |
| 11 | For example , some functions required fast and frequent access to both active and dormant files ; others managed efficiently with slower access times , but had a need for more extensive cross-referencing ; some items had a limited life only , whereas information relating to policy and major structural changes had to be kept indefinitely . |
| 12 | Holiday had a hopeless life . |
| 13 | ‘ She had a sad life , ’ he said later . |
| 14 | But perhaps they still had a future life together . |
| 15 | ‘ Mr Makallah had a charmed life . |
| 16 | ‘ And she had a good life , when all 's said . ’ |
| 17 | Oh yes , I had a good life . |
| 18 | It , I think I had a good life there and I 've got no regrets I think to be public transport is , is a good thing . |
| 19 | My parents , like thousands of other black people , had scrimped and scraped and saved for years to ensure that we had a better life . |
| 20 | Bella had a better life once , I swear it … . |
| 21 | ‘ But you had a great life , ’ Benny cried . |
| 22 | Staying , for the moment , with coloured illustrations , an interesting collection could be made of so-called ‘ nature printing ’ , which had a short life in the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | It was strained through sieves into stone water jars , and if the truth were told , it was probably not very alcoholic and it certainly had a short life . |
| 24 | ‘ National ’ brewers accounted for only 18 per cent of all beer production , and their brands were nearly all bottled ales , since these were more easily transported and had a longer life than cask-conditioned draught beer . |
| 25 | With his wife and Cameron Nielson III , he had a comfortable life , cocooned by money and anonymity . |
| 26 | ‘ He had a remarkable life , ’ the chaplain began , rather wistfully , and Hope saw in return an over-thin , rather knobble-nosed , receding , flat black-haired though still youngish man hypnotised by Fame and Glory . |
| 27 | Forster , who committed suicide , was much hated by the other colonists , who had a hard life trying to farm in the remote swamps plagued by insects . |
| 28 | In fact he had a hard life , battling against the taxman , factory fires , ill health and , on top of all that , a serious car-crash . |
| 29 | ‘ She had a hard life , ’ said Rose sharply , not looking at him . |
| 30 | Graham had a hard life from childhood . |