Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually though , suicide is an act of complete despair , performed by an individual who feels there is no other option , and for whom life has ceased to have any positive features . |
| 2 | Like many people for whom life presented no challenges , Nicky Scott Wilson , for all his assurance , was a coward . |
| 3 | And is it better to be poor Kittykins , in that dull ground-floor flat in the wrong part of Windsor , for whom life 's highlights have dwindled to pension day and nature programmes on the telly box ? |
| 4 | Perhaps only those for whom life itself had ceased to be worth living . |
| 5 | This box is for the inquiring mind , the person for whom life 's teasing questions never lose their attraction . |
| 6 | ‘ Someone like him , someone with everything , someone for whom life was so sweet , so flawless , how could he die ? |
| 7 | What I do know is that there are thousands and thousands of people out there for whom life is intolerable , roughly ten a day actually succeed in killing themselves , how many more have a go we do n't know . |
| 8 | Told in a series of monologues by its five participants , drag artist Lawrence , played in flamboyant fashion by Joe Standerline , is the central creation , a man for whom life seems to be one long joke . |
| 9 | Between them life at the Minoa is never boring ! |
| 10 | An example of such a statement might be , " For me life simply has no meaning " , or , " Even when I am enjoying myself I often feel that I do n't belong " . |
| 11 | The thing about my life , he wrote , is that everything has always been too late . |
| 12 | Some time during the few days ' leave , when talking about my life — not work , of course — at Bletchley , I must rashly have let slip the fact that occasionally I was tired . |
| 13 | You do n't know anything about my life . |
| 14 | ‘ Because the music that they constantly play , it says nothing to me about my life . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ One of the most amazing things about my life is I have the most lovely dreams about all my old friends and the old days . |
| 16 | The strange thing is that I ca n't say I was unhappy in the Service , and generally speaking I enjoyed myself , even coming to realise as time went by that it was an experience I would hate to have missed — and yet , for years afterwards I used to have nightmares about my life in uniform . |
| 17 | ‘ Here 's me goin' on about my life , and you have n't told me about yours . |
| 18 | My mental lapses in class were , as well as being the result of fatigue , a metaphor for what I felt about my life in general . |
| 19 | I think that in my secret eating I was saying , speech also being an oral activity , all the resentful and hostile things I wanted to say about the school and about my life in general . |
| 20 | ‘ I was 17 years old when I committed the offence for which I was sentenced to die , and I did n't even start thinking and caring about my life until I was at least 20 . ’ |
| 21 | The Sawdoctors and their music say nothing to me about my life . |
| 22 | ‘ Lyrically , I 'm talking about my life . |
| 23 | Is he talking about my life or not ? |
| 24 | If I am warned that my weight makes it highly likely that I will suffer health problems in hot climates , the probability of my being ill is reduced if I do either one of two things — lose weight and/or avoid the tropics , Thus , I have some choice about my life . |
| 25 | I make one remark about my life and it reverberates right through every else I do . |
| 26 | They were pleasant and quiet , asking me banal questions about my life in England . |
| 27 | When he started to inquire about my life , I deflected the conversation by saying that I had sold one of the famille rose vases . |
| 28 | I felt relieved once I 'd started because at last I felt I was doing something about my life . |
| 29 | But there was this sex problem , of course , and there was something else , a rootlessness , an atemporality about my life . |
| 30 | I stood alone outside , watching some of the stronger girls playing , trying to forget the bitter cold , and thinking about my life . |