Example sentences of "[vb base] to life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still cling to life and transport of delight . |
| 2 | Trips to the library , Cannon Hill Park and Malvern St. Farm add to life 's rich tapestry . |
| 3 | Revenue ‘ personnel ’ ( and I use the term ‘ personnel ’ advisedly , for they ca n't be real people , can they ? ) suddenly finding themselves victims of a money-is-the-only thing-that-matters approach to life . |
| 4 | With these nine titles , Usborne Publishing has successfully demystified the World of Electronics ( another title ) by providing accurate but colourful technical illustrations combined with equally zany cartoon characters which bring to life the usual metaphorical explanations of how computers and other machinery from the age of IT works . |
| 5 | His pictures bring to life the Grecian-style mansions with their over-plush interiors , the seated ladies with their black female servants standing decorously behind them , the elegant members of the town 's prosperous , post-civil-war black middle class . |
| 6 | These fish are best bought when young , as the larger wild-caught ones very rarely adapt to life in an aquarium , refusing food no matter what persuasion is used . |
| 7 | One of the most widespread natural hazards is flooding , and the potential for loss of property , risk to life and general social disruption is large . |
| 8 | Some emigres take to life in the West better than others ; Mullova appears to have adapted almost completely , and says she has no regrets about having left Russia . |
| 9 | Formidable Elizabeth of Shrewsbury ( Bess of Hardwick Hall ) : Rosalie Chichester ( an early animal rights campaigner , shown here with her Sunday School girls ) ; ravishing Emma Hamilton ( later Nelson 's mistress ) and others come to life through their letters and household accounts , their courtships and inheritances . |
| 10 | When Sweetheart fixed her hair and make-up a certain way and dressed up in the clothes she made on her treadle sewing machine , she looked for all the world like Jane Russell come to life from the big screen . |
| 11 | Window boxes , tubs and hanging baskets come to life in summer , bringing rich colour to buildings and gardens throughout the country . |
| 12 | Since the characters never come to life , it is difficult to care what they get up to , in or out of bed . |
| 13 | There is a stillness in these final scenes which forms a fine contrast with the earlier manic activity , a real sense of wonder as the dead come to life and the divided family are miraculously reunited . |
| 14 | I spent an entire day putting them back , watching that face , hundreds of years old , come to life . ’ |
| 15 | She knows that they come to life under her touch , and that they may carry their own life and their creator be forgotten . |
| 16 | Amphibious machines descend , inflatable beings come to life , huge lanterns illuminate the waterscape — a large , promenade performance concluding with firework display . |
| 17 | Some of us are more mentally productive before midday ; others only come to life in the second half of the day . |
| 18 | Michelangelo 's David come to life , Clare thought . |
| 19 | This was the Book of Remembering come to life ! |
| 20 | As he peered through the binoculars he felt a tremor of excitement course through him at the prospect of seeing the printed images come to life . |
| 21 | Driving through the market place I thought again that Darrowby on Christmas Day was like Dickens come to life ; the empty square with the snow thick on the cobbles and hanging from the eaves of the fretted lines of roofs ; the shops closed and the coloured lights of the Christmas trees winking at the windows of the clustering houses , warmly inviting against the cold white bulk of the fells behind . |
| 22 | These tiny helpless little things that just come to life day by day , until they 're people . |
| 23 | ‘ Face it , if I were to kiss you now I would feel you come to life under my fingers . |
| 24 | When he changes his models for a vulgar Cockney girl and a vagabond Italian his illustrations of lords and ladies immediately come to life . |
| 25 | With the sun slanting through the window , giving your hair a reddish glow and shadowing your face , you could be a Reubens come to life , or maybe a Van Dyck . |
| 26 | Dulled since meeting Terry Rourke , it had inconveniently come to life again , and was telling her things about life — and Havvie — which she did not wish to know . |
| 27 | About the life-matches that had been brewed here , come to life under this moon , and these rough-hewn walls . |
| 28 | Yes ; it 's Sesame Street come to life on stage . |
| 29 | Though modest , Lucy admits she gets a buzz from seeing the characters she creates come to life on the screen . |
| 30 | come to life |