Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so it goes on through life ; always a struggle between wanting to hold on to what we have at the same time as we are reaching out for new joys and satisfactions ; always the dilemma of making choices , of greedily wanting everything , of resenting having to let anything go . |
| 2 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 3 | ‘ You 'll go down for life . ’ |
| 4 | The lines remain constant almost as if in defiance at the narrowing down of life in the actual theme or to provide a strong medium for the subject of the weakness of old age . |
| 5 | I sat down with LIFE and worked through their philosophy , erm in line with our own as it were , and they agreed , and I would ask them to agree this year that any paperwork or any leaflets they distribute make it very clear that a choice remains for a woman in terms of whether or not she should have an abortion , because LIFE is fairly , yes , Michael ? |
| 6 | Collins only wants a wife because he feels that in the eyes of society it is about time for him to be married and to have settled down in life . |
| 7 | It 's only when you are on the top floor and you look down on life on the bottom floor that everything down there looks smaller than normal . ’ |
| 8 | When you have experienced past disappointments , hardship and disillusionment , you know you have been up and down on life 's waves . |
| 9 | Three months later I found myself settling down to life on a research station in the Amazon rainforest in eastern Ecuador . |
| 10 | She was idolised and soon settled down to life with a British family . |
| 11 | Sheer mental power was the ability which Coleridge possessed which enabled him to accomplish this feat , as he does in ‘ Frost at Midnight ’ , when , sitting in his cottage he takes in the ‘ Sea , hill , and wood This populous village ! … with all the numberless goings on of life . ’ |
| 12 | While the physically gifted and superhumanly green-fingered Daisy Gamble ( Barbra Streisand ) sings ‘ Hurry , It 's Lovely Up Here ’ , the flowers on the roof of her apartment block , mostly tulips grow at an alarming yet beautiful rate , conveying a sense of freedom brimming over with life . |
| 13 | The confusion between what belongs to me and what belongs to you ( in emotional terms ) goes on throughout life . |
| 14 | To form , use and sever cords is a feminine instinct that carries on throughout life , and not just in the process of physical motherhood . |
| 15 | The capacity for intellectual and psychological growth through learning goes on throughout life . |
| 16 | Studies are also being undertaken on the trade off between life history strategies . |
| 17 | The style of the letter , the conversation , the catechism , or the lecture appealed to those popularizing science and afraid that the neophyte might be put off for life by too dry a style . |
| 18 | one lady said she was put off for life after her first kiss , and never kissed another man . |
| 19 | Pissed off with life |
| 20 | By definition , you can not do well all the time , you can only try to — your attitude is that you could be a hell of a lot worse off in life than getting out for 30 as opposed to 75 . |
| 21 | We have people such as Alan Sugar , who start off in life without any great qualifications . |
| 22 | They wept on their last day of work : ‘ I felt terrible ’ ; ‘ it seemed as though you were suddenly cut off from life . ’ |
| 23 | The middle class may shut themselves off from life in a mental suburb of self-righteousness , |
| 24 | The most powerful impact of TV 's hidden curriculum is simply that of keeping people switched off from life outside the living-room . |
| 25 | I was more or less resigned to the way things had turned out and just got on with life . |
| 26 | Well it 's ‘ easy come , easy go ’ in those places , you should put it behind you and carry on with life , that 's the best thing . |
| 27 | Repeatedly , he says that to brush a vicious old woman aside like a swatted fly and get on with life is to prove oneself a Napoleon — not Napoleon himself who lost whole armies and forgot about them , but a Napoleon . |
| 28 | You may trip over a couple of times on the way but you will be quite capable of picking yourself up and getting on with life until you have achieved your goal . |
| 29 | We get on with life and take pleasure in things whether she 's ill or not . |
| 30 | I 'll have to try to forget about Anne and get on with life — but it will be hard . ’ |