Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | One , keen to express himself through hard work , sees that his only choice is to ‘ better myself and pick my life up . |
| 2 | If I showed shyness or fear my life would be a misery . |
| 3 | I do n't want to lost my job , but it 's very unfair that my boss should be able to abuse his authority and make my life so miserable . |
| 4 | They telephone all day ; they run after me in the streets ; they bribe my barber for locks of my hair ; they make my life unbearable . |
| 5 | I lose my life , so a hundred percent of my genes for altruism are wiped out . |
| 6 | ‘ I push my life and my art to its limits . |
| 7 | The people who can really lay a claim on hipness as the first to promote the workwear cause , though , are the Authentic Americana Nuts who want their lives to resemble Happy Days ; the readers of the small ads in a magazine like the biker title Back Street Heroes ; and Scottish rig workers , who have been targeted by foreign workwear companies as the natural customers all along . |
| 8 | People want their lives back . ’ |
| 9 | The growing independence of their children , at each successive stage , can be a matter of concern rather than joy for those who over-commit and over-identify their lives with the nurturing of dependent children . |
| 10 | Two-thirds of women questioned say their lives are stressful and that they accept stress as an unavoidable part of life in the 90s . |
| 11 | Villagers living near a gun school say their lives are being destroyed by the noise of thousands of shots at the biggest clay pigeon contest in England . |
| 12 | Some of the shoot 's nearest neighbours say their lives are being ruined |
| 13 | All over the world , including Scotland , women held conferences , workshops and seminars on the issues , political and personal which affect and in many cases , devastate their lives and those of their children . |
| 14 | IN WHICH the barefoot songstrel rewrote her life story for the late Eighties , and came back to claim what should have been hers years before . |
| 15 | The greater the openness of the boundary , the greater the potential capacity to negotiate across it ; the greater the number of open boundaries , the greater the potential power available to the social actors to promote a dialectical relation with the outside world , to actively influence the processes , policies and events that touch their lives Conversely , the fewer open boundaries there are perceived to be and the more closed , the more powerlessness and passivity is likely to be manifest in relation to the outside world . |
| 16 | LIFELINES FOR WOMEN WHO JUGGLE THEIR LIVES |
| 17 | ‘ You 've done nothing for him except wreck his life . |
| 18 | It will help [ the photographer ] to focus some aspect of his life and in the process enrich his life at that moment . |
| 19 | I want his life to have begun the moment he met me , as he wants mine to have begun , simultaneously . |
| 20 | We forget what life must have been like for people without anaesthetics and painkillers . |
| 21 | If you want your life changed , now is the time . ’ |
| 22 | Now let's take a look at talents and abilities you already possess and which can be adapted to new uses in whatever new direction you want your life to take . |
| 23 | But if you want your life story to grip them by the throat and take them along for a rattling good ride which will haunt them for years to come — forget it . |
| 24 | " I want your life . " |
| 25 | That 's one which defines , while you are totally fit , whether you want your life artificially prolonged should you be struck down by an incapacitating illness or accident . |
| 26 | You say your life is too precious to give it up for any country and yet it 's not valuable enough for you to pay me two hundred pounds not to shoot you . |
| 27 | The Ego , then , has a whole array of negative beliefs , payoffs and hidden agenda which limit or even wreck our lives , and block our attempts to programme what we want . |
| 28 | Come that we might see you in the people of every race , and commit ourselves to the hope that we celebrate our life together in true community and justice . |
| 29 | We throw out any stale crumbs for the birds , and yet we sometimes expect our lives to stay the same and always remain satisfying . |
| 30 | It is only after experiencing the vicissitudes of life that we realise how much the difficulties and pains enrich our lives almost as much as the joys and pleasures . |