Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Owen again refers to the sun 's powers , how it causes seeds to grow from the warmth and ‘ care ’ it gives them , and also how it once woke up life at the beginning of the world by adding its warmth to ‘ the clays of a cold star ’ . |
| 2 | A new aroma THE International Stock Exchange started out life as a London coffee shop . |
| 3 | This gracious and well-proportioned early 19th-century building has a varied past : it started out life as a rectory , became a farmhouse , and is now a comfortable country hotel . |
| 4 | Other examples of mid-course diversions ( the SS-11 ) have been moderately successful , and some ( the SS-20 , which started out life unsuccessfully as the three stage SS-16 ICBM ) have been conspicuously so . |
| 5 | Suddenly its dead face took on life . |
| 6 | by no means all of the large reptiles that are found in the Mesozoic rocks are dinosaurs — the reptile groups that took up life in the sea or the air were only distantly related . |
| 7 | They were waiting for a lobster boat 's arrival in expectation of being thrown a free dinner — less work than fishing on their own account ; which about summed up life on the Keys , Trent thought . |
| 8 | It is widely thought that they are descended from genes , or groups of genes , of higher organisms , which have somehow escaped and set up life on their own . |