Example sentences of "be live a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | This group had already trekked from Pochala on the Ethiopian border ; some of the boys had been living a transitory existence for four years . |
2 | It would have been of little comfort to investors to learn that Chairman John Wheeler had , according to former business colleagues , been living a luxury lifestyle , spending almost £70,000 on refitting his yacht , and thousands of pounds renovating his six-bedroom house . |
3 | If she had done as he had suggested , become a doctor maybe , or a teacher , he would be alive today and she would be living a normal life . |
4 | He 'd got high blood pressure , he was n't in any pain he 's living a normal life . |
5 | Today he 's living a quiet life in Bromyard . |
6 | And the woman respected for her concern for the sick and deprived is told : ‘ Not to love is not to live , or it is to live a living death . |
7 | At first , I was angry ; then I was living a new life — other things to think about , other people to consider . |
8 | I , too , was living a double life . |