Example sentences of "[vb past] to life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chris Law 's last-minute attempt to win a place in the British Olympic team briefly flickered to life yesterday when he won a Soling race in the French Olympic Classes Regatta at Hyeres , finishing in front of Lawrie Smith , writes David Pelly . |
| 2 | The row below dulled and then flickered to life , muted for a short while and then raised into a furious crescendo . |
| 3 | He threw a lever and the twin 1500-horsepower engines roared to life . |
| 4 | All right , she thought as the car roared to life . |
| 5 | His body roared to life , hard and urgent , over-riding the pain . |
| 6 | Grand Metropolitan , which is believed to be keen to sell its extensive brewing interests , came to life in late trading , jumping 21p to 599p as the story flowed that Sir James Goldsmith and friends were stake-building . |
| 7 | Thirty years since Asterix came to life , sales of the books — 28 so far — have topped 180 million ( Asterix 's magic potion for superhuman strength enables them all to speak in 29 languages ) . |
| 8 | Everything came to life in the summer with the warm weather and long days . |
| 9 | At the moment when she suddenly needed to say something important to her boy and had no words for it , that gesture came to life and said on her behalf what she herself was unable to say . |
| 10 | At once the kneeling statues came to life . |
| 11 | Just as indisciplined and uncompromising Southampton threatened to turn United 's post-Wembley celebration into a night of disappointment , Kanchelskis came to life . |
| 12 | The seismic activity gradually increased in intensity until on Sunday , 20 May 1883 , Krakatoa abruptly came to life , announcing its re-awakening with a series of explosions audible in towns over 150 kilometres away . |
| 13 | Liam came to life again with ‘ 'T IS the last rose of summer … ’ |
| 14 | The tableau came to life , slowly at first , each horseman urging his mount forward into a walk , then a gentle trot . |
| 15 | The drivers , flushed and cursing , each trying to be the first into the city and to have their wares ready for sale before the city came to life . |
| 16 | At this , Pop came to life and leapt from his chair . |
| 17 | Described as ‘ cold , haughty , melancholy and dull ’ , he at least came to life in the splendour of his books , some eight hundred of which are in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris . |
| 18 | ‘ The first time it came to life was New Year 's Eve , when lots of my parent 's friends came down from Stockholm . |
| 19 | ‘ He evolved in such a way that really came to life for me , ’ she says . |
| 20 | But while they gave support and commitment , it was lesbians who were at the forefront of change when the Girls ' Work Movement came to life in the late seventies and early eighties . |
| 21 | Van Gelder had just left the bridge when another loudspeaker came to life , the repeated double buzzer identifying it as the radio-room . |
| 22 | He approached the fallen man , either to arrest him or make sure he was dead , whereupon Elliot came to life and stabbed Bothwell three times . |
| 23 | Her fingers were sliding over the satiny warmth of her skin , and in a sweet intimate flash of reminder , or of warning , her body ( her secret breathing body which she ignored for nearly all of her time , trying to forget it ) came to life and spoke to her . |
| 24 | While some , indeed most , planned towns established themselves successfully , others proved completely abortive , never came to life at all despite all the activity of the planners , including the king himself . |
| 25 | With the sun , the bargemen came to life . |
| 26 | He only came to life when she began unbuttoning his trousers , for as she touched his fly buttons , so he grabbed at his belt . |
| 27 | As one Anglican incumbent noted , the liturgy ‘ came to life in a new way ’ with such music and the recent publication of Gospel Praise reflects the growing interest in it . |
| 28 | I put on the dress and it suddenly came to life . |
| 29 | The engine turned , was slow to fire before it came to life . |
| 30 | Tutilo came to life with a shudder and a start , golden flames kindling in his eyes . |