Example sentences of "live a [adj] life [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only when he was confronted by God , broken and forced to give up his pride , that he began to see clearly for the first time the vast difference between living a self-directed life and living for God . |
| 2 | After 1,908 days of terror Joe was looking forward to living a normal life and getting back to work as a senior administrator with the American University . |
| 3 | Laura 's father Les said : ‘ We are looking forward to getting back and living a normal life and having a great Christmas together as a family . ’ |
| 4 | He finally finds contentment in living a basic life and repaying Joe what he owes him and he soon realises that he could have been happy staying with Joe in the forge . |
| 5 | The smaller resident landowners lived a simple life and were , like the Basque nobility , interested in the reform movement of the late eighteenth century and supplied many of its leaders . |
| 6 | That 's why he lived a lonely life and locked all his doors so carefully . |
| 7 | They lived a reclusive life and were hardly ever seen . |
| 8 | My mother wanted to live a posh life and have dinner parties with other rich Jews and cook gefilte fish and wear a wig and dance with fashionable rabbis at weddings , you can imagine how Dad took to that . |
| 9 | Christians in particular have trouble with this part of the grief response because so often it seems that Christians are not meant to be angry — especially when the feeling is commonly directed towards God personally , as it were : ‘ I try to live a good life and see what He has let happen … |
| 10 | This restrained attitude did , at least , enable farm cats and some town cats to live a tolerable life as unloved pest-controllers , but for certain village cats life was far more unpleasant . |
| 11 | Insulin injections allow the majority to live a normal life but the control over blood sugar is not as efficient as the body 's own mechanism . |
| 12 | Actually he simply likes to live a normal life and keeps himself to himself , but in the end he decided that he would do it . |
| 13 | These needs must include the needs to live a natural life and not be used for invasive procedures or be kept in restrictive confinement . |
| 14 | Another reason to be grateful for all the publicity and discussion about child abuse is that former victims are seeking treatment at a far earlier age than was previously the case and therefore are able to go on and live a normal life once that treatment is complete . |
| 15 | myself , I think that if any thing happens to Keith which is obviously he 's not gon na live a long life if any thing happens to him I , I myself I reckon she 'll go back to London , because she 's got absolutely nothing here she 's got a cousin although , I do n't think she 'd move in , in with her cousin |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He inherited wealth and could have lived a leisured life but preferred to pursue his earlier interest in natural philosophy . |