Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If things did n't carry on the way they have been , I would carry on enjoying my life . |
| 2 | I am just giving priority to those who were most instrumental in shaping my life and my general outlook in all matters appertaining to living . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm just getting myself back on track , building myself up mentally , physically and emotionally , so I need somebody like him organizing my life , keeping the diary , ’ Justin says of Dom . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , it 's only that I feel I 've been wasting my life ! |
| 5 | I 'm wasting my life exercising tonight as well |
| 6 | My doctor had also prepared a report for the judge , about various medical problems which I hoped might be taken into consideration , along with the fact that I had for some time been re-building my life and now had very little to do with the lifestyle that brought me into contact with drugs . |
| 7 | and John one in verse twelve it says but as many have received him , to them he gave the right , the authority , the , the power , to become children of God , even to those who believe on his name and this of course is what making our commitment to Christ is , it 's receiving him for ourselves , it 's plugging in , it 's saying yes I have n't got that power myself , I am not able to do it I need you to come and do it for me , I accept that you have that power , you have that authority , you have dealt with my sin and I receive it for me , we trust Christ to save us from sin and commit ourselves to his kingly ruling our lives , we are as the bible says then , born again , new creations , we are made alive in Christ , I give you one verse in Colossians and in chapter three , verse four it says when Christ who is our life is revelled , then you also no sorry verse , verse three , verse three , sorry for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God but you say that 's all very well that , that brings me into the place of becoming a follower of Jesus yes I 've accepted him , but what about all this pressures here , Christ I , I 'm willing to receive them and to make the centre of my life , I 've received that he died for me , but what about all those things that 's twisting and marring and distorting my life , that 's rubbing me , my life can be more , God wants it to be , well that 's the great thing when Jesus comes , he does n't just come and sit down and that 's all there is to it , but he comes in by the holy spirit and as Christ is the centre of our life so he , as we submit to him and to his authority as we become obedient to his word , doing what he tells us , what he says for us , then the power of his spirit in our life starts operating , God the holy spirit , cos that 's how we become Christians , we are born again of God spirit and God Christ was in us , not the man who walked here on Galilee , he is a man in glory , but he comes into your life and into my life by the holy spirit and he gives us new spiritual resources which help us to overcome those influences of evil that are pressing in on us and trying to , to , to , to distort our lives and depress it into its mould , those things that have spoiled our lives , he gives us spiritual power and spiritual resources over them . |
| 8 | Joe held out his hand , they shook hands and walked away from each other , Joe feeling that he had done what he could to save Maureen from wrecking her life and suffering years of pain but troubled by sympathy and liking for Chris . |
| 9 | Lisa would never know how true that was — or how nearly it had come to blighting her life . |
| 10 | Dying their lives and living their deaths . |
| 11 | We must also pay special attention to the needs of the victims of crime , in the courts and in rebuilding their lives . |
| 12 | The Jones 's family are now rebuilding their lives , but hope better awareness of Meningitis with mean others wo n't suffer their pain . |
| 13 | She went home and the next morning began rebuilding her life . |
| 14 | Today , as Patricia , now 17 , sets about rebuilding her life , she looks back on the experience with a mixture of hatred , bitterness , anger and irony . |
| 15 | It was not that she felt a need for approval , but it was disheartening that these people should show so little comprehension of the sacrifice she had made in wedding her life to theirs . |
| 16 | Maybe it was no more than another way of affirming its life . |
| 17 | He had the facility for keeping his life , as well as his businesses , in separate compartments . |
| 18 | I have no reason to believe that my son was contemplating ending his life and he had to my knowledge no enemies . ’ |
| 19 | When he came out of prison he set about rebuilding his life . |
| 20 | Each defendant must submit to counsel a week in advance a couple of hundred words summarising his life , and this enables counsel to prepare their questions . |
| 21 | Your mind starts , and the trouble is , it starts overtaking your life . |
| 22 | Her long flaxen hair gave her an almost nordic appearance , her clear unspoilt complexion reflecting her life in the clean country air . |
| 23 | She suggests that hysteria was an alternative role option for women incapable of accepting their life situation in rigid family roles . |
| 24 | In theory , the best method of control is to shorten the life of the adult , vector mosquitoes , and so prevent the parasites from completing their life cycle . |
| 25 | As it is , it 's the family who takes responsibility for denying the baby existence , though permitting its death rather than allowing its life . |
| 26 | Three young Africans have travelled six thousand miles to Swindon in the hope of realising their life 's ambition . |
| 27 | It 's kind of an emotional drama , two middle-aged guys driving through Texas , reliving their lives on the way to a college reunion … ’ |
| 28 | It had occurred to her that by devoting her life to her work she would never have the chance to look after her own babies , and her thoughts turned once more to the young man with the dark wavy hair and the expressive blue eyes . |
| 29 | Trained as a doctor , she never practised , devoting her life instead to the care of their son and four daughters and to the support of her husband 's work for the youth hostel movement . |
| 30 | So far I 've really enjoyed my life well no major complaints anyway , and so I 'd like to bring my children up here enjoying their life as well . |