Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] life " in BNC.

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1 My Mum lives for the films .
2 My sister lives in Edinburgh , me two brothers live in Nottingham .
3 I was back in England in time for the Easter term of 1931 and resumed my university life , but during the next three years I thought incessantly of that slow-flowing muddy river , of the arid , scrub-covered plains and volcanic mountains , the herds of ox and gazelle , the mat-roofed encampments , the slender , graceful figures in loincloths , attractive , armed and unpredictable .
4 You may be familiar with those sorts of stories which say my convent life was hell with the Sisters of Mercy er that kind of story about er church organisations that absolute not to show er Christian qualities in the way that they are organised is quite true that often Christian organisations do find it hard to show forgiveness .
5 Manager Chris McMenemy , son of England number two Lawrie , said : ‘ This is the proudest night of my football life .
6 That day still stands out as the greatest day in my football life . ’
7 ‘ The match in Genoa last season was probably the best night of my football life , with the atmosphere there .
8 ‘ The match in Genoa last season was probably the best night of my football life , with the atmosphere there .
9 In the real world there is undoubtedly no such thing as an organization of any size or substance that can say , All my data lives in one source .
10 No what about the one , my mummy lives in this house ?
11 [ Harry Vardon , The Complete Golfer , 1905 , and My Golfing Life , 1933 ; Donald Steel ( ed . ) ,
12 It can and will be seen that the particular academic institution in which I was incarcerated , together with the pressures of my home life , was not conducive to the resolution of any such developmental crises .
13 I continued to do well , but there was an increasing gap between my home life and my aspirations , as these became more like possibilities .
14 It 's my home life , you see . ’
15 So I feel a terrific relief and release that in the latter part of my business life I 've been really able to make things happen at a considerable speed .
16 One which I found to be of great value in my business life , until the advent of decimalisation , was learnt in Standard Four , in the usual sing-song fashion .
17 This experience has left me with a love of the East and an ability to feel at home there which has been an immense help in my business life .
18 He sent for me and demanded my resignation , and we had the worst row I 've ever had in my business life . ’
19 ‘ And not just in my business life .
20 Ralph Ellis , Chief Executive , said at the time of the announcement ‘ The market place is exceptionally difficult just now , but we saw very early on that it was tough — in fact the last three months of our financial year were the toughest experience in my business life .
21 She 's the glow that keeps together our family life my business life at the same time has always been supportive of my involvement in Round Table .
22 My nephew lives and studies in Odense on the island of Fyn .
23 She is opening the door , and feeling about inside the box where my god lives .
24 When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory . ’
25 Though I was a student of literature and , I believe , a reasonably good teacher , and loved my work , and though I was , moreover , a serious poet who had gained some small recognition in circles even outside my own University , my writing life was not confined to poems and articles , or even lectures .
26 I have spent my adult life here but because of little pinpricks I feel I do n't belong .
27 Most of my adult life I 've been a salesman over in England .
28 ‘ Okay I 've cried three times in my adult life , ’ he finally admits : ‘ When my sons were born and when my mother died .
29 All my adult life I had adored foods which were high in fat .
30 As I did n't want to undergo the inconvenience of surgery to remove the offending gall bladder , I opted for virtually fat free eating , with the miraculous side effect of acquiring slim hips and thighs for the first time in my adult life ( see photograph on next page ) .
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