Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what , for instance , does Morrissey know about life , sat in his living room in Halebarns denouncing carnivores everywhere when some poor bugger in Hulme would give his right arm for a pork chop ? |
| 2 | There was n't much the urban pair did n't know about life and death . |
| 3 | The author 's job is to know about literature ; what he might or might not know about life is irrelevant to that job . |
| 4 | Do not count as life that which passes without love . |
| 5 | Do n't wait for life to wave its magic wand and make you joyful . |
| 6 | What more did they know of life than that it was life ? |
| 7 | ‘ You are everything I want and need , you fulfil my every fantasy , and I do n't want to even think of life without you . |
| 8 | ‘ And what did you think of life then ? ’ |
| 9 | Does experience of life lead you to agree or disagree with what says ? |
| 10 | His heart contracted and the thought struck him that this domestic scene encompassed all he could ever want of life . |
| 11 | The 44-year-old star watched little Christina battle for life thankfully successfully after an operation for a hole in her heart . |
| 12 | The 44-year-old star watched little Christina battle for life after an operation for a hole in her heart . |
| 13 | It is men who decide what a woman can reasonably expect of life . |
| 14 | Labour will ensure that these services are in place before patients who will benefit from life in the community are transferred out of long-term hospital care . |
| 15 | What do we expect from life ? |
| 16 | All you can do in life is your best and expect to do your best and to try to go on achieving . |
| 17 | Regardless of who we are or what we may do in life all of us have an upper limit to the stress that our bodies can take . |
| 18 | Dealing the drug can result in life imprisonment . |
| 19 | At the stroke of the midnight hour , when the world sleeps , India will awake to life and freedom . |
| 20 | These principles can be applied to energise and bring to life the hard edges of Euclidean geometry and of the drawing board . |
| 21 | The notion that parents can exert a particularly profound influence during the first few years — an influence that will remain throughout life and can not be eradicated by subsequent experience-is certainly widespread . |
| 22 | The criterion of legality is enough for many parents , and understandably so : a criminal conviction is a handicap and a label that may stick for life . |
| 23 | When I was a kid it was great because you could go to the music store , put down your money and get something like an SG Junior — not an expensive guitar but a really good guitar all the same , a guitar you could keep for life . |
| 24 | Later Patrick asked him : ‘ Do you believe in life after death , Stevie ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't believe in life after death because I do not believe in our limited concept of time . ’ |
| 26 | I hope that God does not look at life in quite that way . |
| 27 | Meantime , we should look at life on land . |
| 28 | It will look at life histories of family members , the distribution of resources , and the activities and routines of family life in order to illuminate how beliefs , values , attitudes , expectations and patterns of behaviour are transmitted between family members . |
| 29 | but , but being honest you , you 've got ta look at life man . |
| 30 | He put it best , perhaps , when he said that the writer must wade into life as into the sea , but only up to the navel . |