Example sentences of "[verb] a life " in BNC.
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| 1 | They involve a life of self-denial and sacrifice . |
| 2 | In Starlust , Fred and Judy Vermoral suggest a life of pop as a flood of tears , semen , saliva , love-juice , breath , sweat , fantasies of licking whipped cream out of Clem Burke of Blondie 's bum . |
| 3 | In the midst of those terrifying complaint stories in Numbers is another chapter concerned with the offerings to be made once the people have occupied the Land , offerings which suggest a life of plenty waiting to be enjoyed there ( ch. |
| 4 | Oh , yes , oh there 's Karen , oh , oh , she 'll need a life insurance policy . |
| 5 | Then he had been reprieved from an open-ended sentence of death by combat , and raised to a position of great prestige and power which also promised a life of action and danger well suited to his special talents . |
| 6 | At the moment becoming a life governor is , I should think , within the reach of ordinary supporters like myself . |
| 7 | After her affair Dona was more mature than Anna and had the capacity to accept a life with her husband . |
| 8 | Izaak Walton was therefore commissioned by Sheldon , the Archbishop of Canterbury , to write a Life of Hooker which would not only replace an inaccurate memoir in Gauden 's edition , but would generally discredit the later books . |
| 9 | His plan , with the apparent co-operation of the heiress and owner of the papers , was to write a life of Rudyard Kipling [ q.v. ] , but he unwisely signed a contract with her ( Mrs Bambridge ) which gave her sole control over the book as a condition of full access to the family papers . |
| 10 | He also commissioned Folcard [ q.v. ] , a continental monk under his protection , to write a Life of St John of Beverley . |
| 11 | Okay , bearing in mind single life , does include a life of another , and the only time we can use that life for another , is the one we mentioned there with where the employer wishes to take a plan on the life of the employee . |
| 12 | If parents choose to proceed on this basis , they should do so with the full understanding that they may be aborting a child capable of experiencing as full and satisfying a life as anyone else . |
| 13 | He described a life so different from my own that I could not have imagined it — ‘ She loved me for the dangers I had passed , and I loved her , that she did pity them . ’ |
| 14 | On the other hand , patients with locally confined but palpable disease who are treated by either radiotherapy or radical prostatectomy will show five year survival rates of 75–85% and will enjoy a life expectancy comparable to that of an aged matched male population . |
| 15 | One of the people he 's conning is Sir Epicure Manhom who wants a life of ease and luxury and has been giving the alchemist loads of money in order to tu to , to perfect this and funny enough the alchemist has n't managed , has n't managed to do this , to get the person 's money . |
| 16 | The mourners lamented a life taken so quickly in a violent and senseless manner . |
| 17 | Later staff from the Crimdon Caravan Park found a life ring with a dummy full of sand on the beach . |
| 18 | and Ruth says I commit myself to him , he will now be my god , and therefore your people will be my people , your home will be my home , your destiny will be my destiny the way is clear , she makes that greatest decision of her life , a decision that will affect the whole of her life but its not as say a life decision is a commitment now , we , we , we are always confronted , day after day we are confronted to make decisions , some of you make decisions and were not too committed about them , and if things alter they will change our minds , not just a ladies prerogative to change her mind , men do it as well and things happen and we think oh no well , I wo n't go through with that I 'll change my mind before its too late , but here Ruth she is not just making a decision , she is making a total commitment , a commitment that is worth time of the whole of her life , to promised to be loyal to de to Naomi and her deceased husband , she promises loyalty to Naomi 's race and the people of god , but above all she acknowledge 's Naomi 's god and her willingness to follow him to the end , you know this , how she finishes of this commitment where you die I will die its to the end its to the end of my life , I will not walk out of it and even after you 've gone mother in law , even after you are dead I am still committed to that decision , this decision I am making today where you die I will die , there I will be buried , and here she sorts of puts this solemn vow to this commitment , thus may the lord to do me and worse if any thing but death parts you and me . |
| 19 | She bore a life . |
| 20 | He had enjoyed a life of fishing there , until at the age of forty-five he met Lovebird Johnston . |
| 21 | but do not demonstrate a life that is lived for him |
| 22 | Tonight Andrew Hagans starts a life sentence for the rape and murder of Anna McGurk . |
| 23 | Tonight he starts a life sentence . |
| 24 | The court case over , Marita is now rebuilding a life for herself and her baby . |
| 25 | Beyond this specific instance , fourfoldness has a life of its own in his thought ; it appears in card-games — ‘ le jeu des cartes ’ relates to ‘ le jeu Descartes , — where there are four suits , plus a joker , whom Megill identifies with Derrida himself . |
| 26 | The death-watch beetle has a life cycle of three to ten years depending upon the nature of the timber it inhabits . |
| 27 | And I realized that when you record a song it 's not yours anymore , it has a life of its own . |
| 28 | The European Council already has a life of its own that can act against national interests . |
| 29 | Its Studio Theatre has a life of its own at the forefront of creative theatre . |
| 30 | Tramway track on straight sections has a life of 25–30 years , but on sharp curves has to be renewed every 2–3 years , although this life has been extended by ribbon welding ( see p. 101 ) . |