Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Only my life — that 's what ! |
| 2 | Without any more information to go on it was impossible to revise my image of the way the world worked or had done all my life . |
| 3 | Well I suppose more or less all my life . |
| 4 | I mean to lay down my life that men like you can live in freedom to fight for what is right in the world . ’ |
| 5 | So my life : before glass , with glass , end . |
| 6 | If I hold on to these things they go , and if I let go of them they go , and so my life goes . |
| 7 | So my life was n't as tense , though biographical details were drawn upon . |
| 8 | And so my life went on . |
| 9 | Perhaps her life was easier because of that . |
| 10 | I 've never met Sir Brian or Sir Oliver and have only met Sir Bernard a few times , but I instinctively feel that all six would lay down their lives without hesitation for a damsel in distress . |
| 11 | They had true grievances to settle and were ready to lay down their lives for vengeance . |
| 12 | Oh Lord who to see that all the world , we thank thee for those who fought and those who laid down their lives in the cause of righteousness and freedom . |
| 13 | To tradition and instinct , de Castelnau could add personal reasons for wanting to hit hard at the enemy ; three of his sons had already laid down their lives for France . |
| 14 | When the balance sheet was finally totted up after the war , it was estimated that 1O , OOO Frenchmen alone had laid down their lives on this one small corner of France . |
| 15 | Have they been competing with one another all their lives ? |
| 16 | No one can seriously go on counting calories all their lives . |
| 17 | The most obvious , though inadequate , analogy I could think of for my situation was to be a light-skinned black person who identified with white people all her life , who had ‘ passed ’ as a white person for years and who had suddenly discovered the reality of Black Power . |
| 18 | After a brief spell in a florist 's shop , she entered Morrison & Gibb in November 1909 , aged 15 , and worked there more or less all her life . |
| 19 | But so many people all her life had told her how wrong it was to hurt others , so Jezrael penned inside her the rage that crushed its poison outwards through the walls of her veins , not knowing the harm she would do herself , knowing only that if she killed Zulei she would be as bad as Zulei was . |
| 20 | She had haunted herself all her life . |
| 21 | Two of his elderly constituents had lost not only their life savings , but their homes . |
| 22 | Christ 's example is not that of helping us across a road , or showing us what good neighbours we must be — but costly , redemptive , self-emptying love ; love which lays down its life for others so that they might be restored to God . |
| 23 | and laid down its life ? |
| 24 | She would have laid down her life for you . ’ |
| 25 | He heard Izz 's words again and again in his head : She would have laid down her life for you . |
| 26 | He remembered the words of Izz Huett : She would have laid down her life for you . |
| 27 | Once , she would have laid down her life for this man , and the memory of that devotion could still make her soul weep . |
| 28 | And since children are already members of society the nature of their lives , and especially their lives as they grow up and leave school , is a part of the nature of society . |
| 29 | So her life was an unhappy one . |
| 30 | ‘ God 's will only who lives and dies … was n't my fault some of the crew and near all those damn niggers took the flux . ’ |