Example sentences of "[adj] my life " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could never have imagined , however , how rich my life was going to be : how many friends we were to make , the places in the world we were to visit , and all the wealth of love and kindness from others we were to experience . |
| 2 | So , concentrate on this and I 'm , I 'm , must get round to , I 'm sorry my life has been in turmoil because of the , the dog situation , Jean and I have n't been up to the West End , but erm , I , I know which book I want , I want to get you , erm , and yes , I want you to do this , so and this actually it 's very good , very difficult , good , do a bit of technic . |
| 3 | When I look back , I see how easy and comfortable and pleasant my life was , and I took it all for granted ! |
| 4 | Charlie 's departure is the first of several , and this event is succeeded by the announcement of a further theme when the rabbi 's thunderings pass over the heads of his congregation and the writer notes : ‘ in later years I would wonder how different my life might have been if a few people , those closest to me , had been frightened — just a little . ’ |
| 5 | I often wondered how different my life might have been if I had had a wife and family to come home to all these years . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm going to get drunk , to hell , I 've been half drunk half my life , who gives a fuck if I 'm drunk again ? |
| 7 | ‘ I spend half my life changing beds , stuffing the washing machine and emptying wastepaper baskets . ’ |
| 8 | I 've wasted half my life in misery and loneliness , but now I 've found you . |
| 9 | In all this my life was not novel , except that it had no witnesses , because I was an only child . |
| 10 | That incident appears to be behind the decision by golf 's ‘ Wild Thing ’ to clean up his act , and he said last night : ‘ I will check into an alcohol rehabilitation unit and return to tournament play only when I am comfortable my life is in order . ’ |
| 11 | An' I du n no 'ow long I 'll be livin' 'fore I 'm sick like yore ol' lady 'angin' rahnd ver launjrette an' waitin' up fer ol' man an' 'avin' Gawd knows 'ow many kids 'angin' rahnd me an' ‘ Mummy this ’ and ‘ Mummy that ’ my Gawd if you mus ' know Sharon all my life all I fuckin' wanner do is shine up there like a dancer or sunnink . |
| 12 | All my life , he wrote , I have been preparing myself for this moment , but if I have prepared myself correctly then it is so that when the moment came I should not be encumbered with the sensation of having waited for it all my life , for such a sensation , wrote Harsnet , is too heavy a burden for anyone to carry . |
| 13 | All my life , he wrote , I have been preparing myself for this moment , but if I have prepared myself correctly then it is so that when the moment came I should not be encumbered with the sensation of having waited for it all my life , for such a sensation , wrote Harsnet , is too heavy a burden for anyone to carry . |
| 14 | All my life a preparation for my version of this combination ? he wrote . |
| 15 | All my life , he wrote , I have used art to fight against myself . |
| 16 | All my life I have suffered because of Father being important . |
| 17 | ‘ My friend , all my life I have been lying . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've wanted to do that all my life , ’ he said . |
| 19 | ‘ And you just got up in front of Henry and those pipsqueaks in your department and said , ‘ Sorry and all that , old chaps , but I 've been wrong all my life and led you into error and wickedness ’ ? ’ |
| 20 | If you 're administering , you might as well administer something that is new and challenging rather than doing something I had been doing all my life . |
| 21 | After all , I have had to live with a big bottom all my life ! |
| 22 | All my life has been work and each other . ’ |
| 23 | Margaret Thatcher seems to have been Prime Minister all my life , and the Falklands War is just a vague and fearful memory of someone else 's brother going off to fight . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've spent all my life in general PR , but it was about eight years ago I decided that there was room for a specialist agency , not really a PR firm , which was concerned entirely with government relations . |
| 25 | You scoff at me and my ‘ one ’ man friend , you who have so many , but dear girl I have learnt more in the short time of my friendship with Edward , more of the world , of men as distinct from women , and man as an individual than in all my life I have learnt before . |
| 26 | I 've been escaping all my life . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've never been so uncomfortable in all my life . |
| 28 | All my life I have seen that type of person , handsome and self-assured , who knew he could have me just by crooking a finger and beckoning me to follow . |
| 29 | My heart always jumped with fright whenever I saw one of my poems in print , because I was sure it would contain one of the misprints whose steady drizzle has haunted my work all my life . |
| 30 | Lively and headstrong , considered beautiful in her day ( and there had been something proud about her — the way she held her head ) , she had married well and had lived abroad for almost all my life . |