Example sentences of "[vb past] for life " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean if er that w you you 'd had it if if you w ruined for life if you er took one man 's see but served two teas . |
| 2 | I threw for life , and I won life . |
| 3 | A pair of partridges whirred across the road in front of her , and Winnie remembered that Ella had told her that they mated for life . |
| 4 | She knew they mated for life , and though she did not think much of married bliss , yet she approved of constancy . |
| 5 | Rivonia gave immortality to the men it jailed for life |
| 6 | Allitt jailed for life |
| 7 | Allitt jailed for life |
| 8 | Sams jailed for life |
| 9 | Those few who consciously risked the consequences of disregarding it , or allowed themselves unthinkingly to slide into overindebtedness , could still suffer the degradation of what went for life behind the walls of the Marshalsea or the Kidderminster dungeon . |
| 10 | His wife sat with him for thirteen hours , and he clutched her hand as he struggled for life . |
| 11 | McCurbin died of asphyxiation from pressure applied to the neck , but the police who arrested him said that they thought he was faking as he struggled for life . |
| 12 | She struggled for life in a dizzy world of red fire and molten lead . |
| 13 | A fight ensued which left one man dead , one crippled for life and several with lasting scars . |
| 14 | Butchered safari girls ' battled for life |
| 15 | She flared up in a fury and we parted for life again … |
| 16 | John de Neville , an important English baron and a former Chief Justice of the Forest , who held for life the wardenship of the forests between Oxford and Stamford bridges , was convicted of grave offences , amerced in the enormous sum of 2,000 marks , and deprived of his wardenship , which Passelewe in 1246 secured for himself . |