Example sentences of "[be] [pron] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Holding son Alejandro in his arms , Peres told interviewers : ‘ My family are my life — and now they are free . ’ |
| 2 | Horses are my life , and they 're the two priorities |
| 3 | Sparks had been my life for only 16 years , but long before I joined I had admired its style , history and clientele — over a century of selling fine Chinese art , for the past 60 years from that great drawing-room of a shop in Mount Street . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's been my life , y'know . |
| 5 | That 's been my life , more or less . |
| 6 | It has been my life . |
| 7 | I mean it has been my life , and it 's obviously the most enormous wrench when you 've suddenly got to do something entirely different . |
| 8 | ‘ Old people are their life , it 's not just a business venture for them , they genuinely care and they are speaking from the heart , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Are their lives less precious ? — |
| 10 | And the people who tell these stories — are their lives any better than mine ? ’ |
| 11 | Up till then Africa had been her life . |
| 12 | From that night their courtship had been her life . |
| 13 | How dared he do this to her — how dared he rob her of something that had always been her life 's blood ? |
| 14 | But for the past year she 's faced the very real possibility of losing the Inn that 's been her life because Whitbreads decided to sell it off along with other pubs to meet the demands of the Monopolies Commission , which had demanded it must get rid of half its tied houses . |
| 15 | ‘ They 're my life . ’ |
| 16 | You 're my life , my heart . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It will be my life . ’ |
| 18 | I do n't want to be a society lady any more , but I 'm not quite sure whether I want journalism to be my life 's work . |
| 19 | It had a title which was not the most inspiring one I had heard in what I presumed to be my life , but told of the one man who had a great impression on me . |
| 20 | This fight between Ted and Jean seemed to be her life 's single pleasure , and who could blame her ? |
| 21 | Sometimes he wondered how the teachers could go on living , knowing this was to be their life , until the end . |
| 22 | These become the gardens and orchards of the mind and are the supreme creations of the human being and it should be our life 's task to tend our wild vines and taste the berries that hang in profusion in their many coloured flasks . |
| 23 | It 's coming to re God for ourself , and allowing his life to come in and be our life . |
| 24 | As a member of the International Olympic Committee , the sport which has been his life , both before and since his professional career as a journalist , will have a permanent voice in the world 's most important sporting forum . |
| 25 | For a man like this , still living in the midst of the work which had been his life , retirement had none of its typical contemporary implications : he retained his technical authority along with his social networks and his familiar surroundings . |
| 26 | His daughter had been his life . |
| 27 | It has been his life 's work . |
| 28 | Mr Townsend says he 's now happy to be working at his shop repairing and selling the clocks which have been his life 's work . |
| 29 | BLADE IS a sussed DIY street rapper who tells it like it is , never dreaming of softening the edges to the social and economic fractures that are his life . |
| 30 | ‘ If this were my life , ’ he says softly , ‘ I 'd be living in a hotel made of chocolate sponge cake and organ music . |