Example sentences of "[det] [pron] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm going to get drunk , to hell , I 've been half drunk half my life , who gives a fuck if I 'm drunk again ? |
| 2 | ‘ I spend half my life changing beds , stuffing the washing machine and emptying wastepaper baskets . ’ |
| 3 | I 've wasted half my life in misery and loneliness , but now I 've found you . |
| 4 | In all this my life was not novel , except that it had no witnesses , because I was an only child . |
| 5 | A fair city , something dishevelled after uneasy times , and hampered and straitened now -by the loss of the thriving Welsh trade which was half its life , but still capable of living on its own fat for some while yet , and still hard to take and invaluable to hold . |
| 6 | And she had so perfected this technique of politely disappearing , that she had to live almost half her life before she came to realize that she had almost disappeared to her own self ! |
| 7 | Rose knew many of the people on the platform even though she had spent half her life in Scotland and she responded to each greeting with warmth , careful to watch that her friendliness did not grate on Moran . |
| 8 | She had lived almost half her life amid violence . |
| 9 | In the rucksack in which she seemed to keep half her life she burrowed and came up with a biro and writing-pad . |
| 10 | They spend half their lives underground in darkness or near-darkness and touch , smell and hearing convey as much or more to them than sight . |
| 11 | At least they 're not spending half their lives standing in queues . ’ |
| 12 | The trick is to make the qualification time long enough so that the people who go to a club towards the end of their career and get large transfer bonuses do not qualify , but short enough for the players to feel that they will not have to wait half their lives to get theirs . |
| 13 | Taking only the period in which this book has been written , and limiting the location to the UK , there have been numerous similar press-provoked scandals in which the homosexual has kept turning up where he or she should not , especially at the ‘ respectable ’ centre of things : in MI5 , the Houses of Parliament , as parliamentary candidate , schoolteacher , council employee , prison chaplain , vicar , guard to the Queen Mother , film star , circuit judge , to cite only some ( and some whose lives have been destroyed by homophobic media harassment ) . |
| 14 | He has Hungary 's second highest academic title in Marxist philosophy , has spent half his life teaching and disseminating the official ideology , and is one of the leaders of the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party , which calls itself the ‘ vanguard of the working class ’ . |
| 15 | The consultant has explained that Tourette 's Syndrome is a rare and unfortunate condition , and he should fucking well know about those , he 's right off the Christmas tree , probably spent half his life sucking strange men 's cocks or taking it up the arsehole in a public loo in the Charing Cross Road . |
| 16 | He had come to France ( in which he spent more than half his life as king of England ) and had , as contemporaries recognised , achieved considerable conquests , something which his predecessors had never done on that scale or within so short a period of time . |
| 17 | He 's come here with a fixed idea , which he 's been looking forward to for half his life . |
| 18 | Daddy 's just as bad spends half his life visiting patients , most of whom were never able to pay their bills . |
| 19 | He was by origin a Londoner , but spent more than half his life in Bishop 's Castle and will be remembered with affection by many people in the district . |
| 20 | Except he had lived with them-the wild free ones in the mountains and the wild caught ones up at San Carlos-about half his life and that made the difference . |
| 21 | George , not unlike his subject , has spent about half his life in Ireland west , north and south he tells me I said why not Dublin and he says that 's what I meant |
| 22 | Is this what life is for , is this why my parents brought me up with so much love and care ? |
| 23 | And of course , we spend half our lives in each others ' houses , eating . |
| 24 | We spend half our lives searching each other 's bottoms for erogenous zones , while all the time there are two dirty great big ones lurking inside our socks . |
| 25 | There 's not much chance of finding an 'usband down 'ere and Aah 've no wish ti stop an old maid all me life . |
| 26 | I ai n't dyin' to wear grey all me life , y'know . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I tell yer , Joe old cock , my bleedin' trouble is that I 'm misunderstood meself , I been sufferin' misunderstandin' all me life . |
| 28 | ‘ I have all me life to do that . ’ |
| 29 | She complains cheerfully as we enter saying , ‘ Jaz I 've never had so many people kissin' me in all me life , strangers and all , you 'd tink I was in Italy or England or America , God forbid ! ’ |
| 30 | An' I du n no 'ow long I 'll be livin' 'fore I 'm sick like yore ol' lady 'angin' rahnd ver launjrette an' waitin' up fer ol' man an' 'avin' Gawd knows 'ow many kids 'angin' rahnd me an' ‘ Mummy this ’ and ‘ Mummy that ’ my Gawd if you mus ' know Sharon all my life all I fuckin' wanner do is shine up there like a dancer or sunnink . |