Example sentences of "[adj] life have [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never in her entire life had she spoken to anyone the way she had just spoken to Nathan Bryce . |
| 2 | Never in their whole married life had she spoken like that before . |
| 3 | But I mud say , never in my short life have I witnessed anything so funny . |
| 4 | He would have lived a long and full life had it not been for Flodden . ’ |
| 5 | Indeed , sometimes killing can end a deadlock or cut short suffering , and I think that this happened in Eddie' case — he would have lived an isolated and miserable life had he not been killed , so Marco almost did him a favour . |
| 6 | Bowler felt that Minton was happiest when painting and would have been content with a quiet life had he not been driven by a need for others and by the fact that he could not bear to be on his own . |
| 7 | Never in her whole life had she met anyone so self -centred . |