Example sentences of "[v-ing] to life " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is all a part of life relating to life , mind relating to mind . |
| 2 | Here is an opportunity to see day-to-day activities relating to life on the estate — working farm with dairy cattle , sheep and arable crops — all set in attractive parkland . |
| 3 | This is the principle upon which Dr Barsamian 's mathematics for vortex field equations is constructed , and in accordance with the above findings relating to Life Force energy fields , an understanding of the problem of cancer is also made easier . |
| 4 | Already , as Luke raised her hand to his mouth , response was quivering to life deep down in the heart of her femininity , flickering and then leaping as she felt the sensual brush of his lips . |
| 5 | Usually , the Oracle says simply that ‘ the Master is asleep ’ , but if you are running an adventure in which Drachenfels is returning to life and the adventurers have n't killed him yet , the Oracle 's eyes gleam as he says that ‘ the Master is growing stronger , he will come to see me soon ’ , as he clasps his hands together in unholy pleasure . |
| 6 | While the secret garden was returning to life , a man with high , crooked shoulders was wandering round the most beautiful places in Europe . |
| 7 | Their response is , ‘ Then God has given the Gentiles also the gift of repentance leading to life . ’ |
| 8 | The broad thoroughfare was now corning to life . |
| 9 | Suzanne , who left school in July , is clinging to life in the burns unit at Withington Hospital after being stripped , beaten and set on fire by captors who also shaved her head . |
| 10 | Catherine Moore , 19 , of Daniels Court , Middlesbrough , was still clinging to life in hospital last night . |
| 11 | The palaeontologist was an Ezekiel calling to life the dry bones ; but in this case the old sign ‘ here be dragons ’ was apt , and the prophet was bringing diabolical creatures to life — perhaps a Frankenstein rather than an Ezekiel . |
| 12 | Love lit her from within and the light dancing from Lucy 's radiant being brought her dancing to life . |
| 13 | By now the camp was coming to life properly . |
| 14 | Only an hour later , in Munster , Buller Barracks is coming to life as the soldiers and civilians employed in the workshop start work . |
| 15 | Some of the men had been collecting driftwood and dry sticks and branches from among the trees ; a small fire was coming to life , crackling and spluttering sparks into the haze of heat above it . |
| 16 | Here the garden has been divided into four , each area coming to life at a different time of the year |
| 17 | However , musical silence reigns while the DSP operates a protective delay before coming to life . |
| 18 | For Russell , this was an exceptional opening into the mysteries of the craft , whilst for the College of Arms it was a great mistake as their involvement in funerals quickly declined , the embers briefly coming to life with the public obsequies of Queen Mary in 1695 . |
| 19 | Misson , in his commentary on the English funeral , tells us what happened next , and why : ‘ They let it [ the corpse ] lye three of four Days … which Time they allow , as well to give the dead Person an Opportunity of Coming to Life again , if his Soul has not quite left his Body , as to prepare Mourning , and the Ceremonies of the Funeral . ’ |
| 20 | They let it lye three or four days in this Condition ; which Time they allowe , as well to give the dead Person an Opportunity of Coming to Life again , if his Soul has not quite left his Body , as to prepare Mourning , and the Ceremonies of the Funerall . |
| 21 | It was only just after seven o'clock and the course was coming to life . |
| 22 | The child must type the sentence with the words in the correct order , and is rewarded for the right answer by the picture coming to life — John jumps on his bike and cycles to school . |
| 23 | Fat sticky horse chestnut buds ; coal-black ash buds with green flower clusters in pairs on the branches ; reddish-brown oak buds splitting open to reveal tiny glossy yellow-green leaves : trees were coming to life again after the long winter |
| 24 | The Colonel was not normally one whose nerve or self-confidence could be shaken by a comrade 's torment — he had seen too much and , besides , a soldier in the field made his own luck — but sitting now in the darkness , hardly aware of the familiar sounds of a barracks coming to life , the hollow ring of that dead voice seemed to re-echo in his ears . |
| 25 | I love the fresh smell in the air when everything seems to be coming to life again and I felt a natural surge of joy , as if in a few weeks ' time John would be coming home from his first trip away just as he should have done the previous April . |
| 26 | It was the Book of Remembering coming to life . |
| 27 | Whitely Prison was coming to life . |
| 28 | Howard looks round the room , half-believing for a moment that the game he and Phil used to play might be coming to life after all . |
| 29 | It is a slow but fascinating experience , to watch your very own perfume coming to life as you sit entranced within this magical space . |
| 30 | The room fills with beige light as we lie listening to the house coming to life . |