Example sentences of "in life [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old and young were attended to their last resting place by those who had loved them , and slept in churchyards adjoining the fields where in life they had played or ploughed . |
| 2 | They have two things in common : in life they were rich , and in death wary . |
| 3 | Not only have the horse mushrooms acted as a great addition to our diet , but later in life they still provide us with very fond memories . |
| 4 | Though he attempted a detailed rebuttal , chapter by chapter , Milton himself had to admit that ‘ Some men have by policy accomplished after death that revenge upon their enemies which in life they were not able ’ , and that ‘ they who before hated him for his high government , nay fought against him with displayed banners in the field , now applaud him for the wisest and most religious prince that lived ’ . |
| 5 | Flora envied them because all the things she craved in life they could buy cheaply in the NAAFI . |
| 6 | Well , to me if a child has got a by all means encourage along but you should n't push them into anything cos later on in life they get a bloody complex about everything you know if they |
| 7 | Onetti never fully fleshes out his characters since in life we can never really know what lies behind the faces of those we meet or pass on the street . |
| 8 | Seneca wrote that ‘ when we want to reach a city or marketplace , we watch where the people are going and we follow them ; but in life we should watch where they go and then we should go in the opposite direction . ’ |
| 9 | Often in life we are prevented from realising our true potential because we feel restricted , or are harbouring some feelings that we would love to share . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's just that in life we believe in doing what you want to do . |
| 11 | Later in life he wondered whether it was the blessing that it seemed . |
| 12 | When he looked back later in life he did not think that this dark night was caused by what happened on the road at Godmanchester . |
| 13 | Later in life he thought that of the two , Henson and Temple , Temple was the statesman on the question . |
| 14 | Later in life he compared his own feelings at the two ordinations to be a deacon and a priest and his later consecration to be a bishop . |
| 15 | Later in life he looked back upon the married time of his professorship at Durham as an idyll ; the paradisal years of his life . |
| 16 | Later in life he made a trilogy of films about the theatre , of which The Golden Coach is one of the most ravishing . |
| 17 | Late in life he married a member of the Wilkinson family ( whose firm had for many years been solicitors to the College ) . |
| 18 | Early in life he went from school to school , sometimes half across Europe ; then he looked for patronage to give him a livelihood . |
| 19 | Early in life he had put away childish things . |
| 20 | Later in life he moved to America , where England 's most popular novelist of the mid-nineteenth century died in obscurity and want , in March ( before 15 March ) 1890 , in New York . |
| 21 | Now , looking for guidance in his construction of a monumental figure composition , Picasso too turned to Cézanne , although he approached him , characteristically , not only with veneration ( later in life he was to say ‘ Cézanne was my one and only master ’ ) but also in a spirit of aggression , even of iconoclasm . |
| 22 | Even later in life he smacked the bottoms of some of the match angling elite on a gale ripped River Trent at North Muskham . |
| 23 | Jurassic reef coral , Stylina alveolata This massive coral is now composed of calcite It has been recrystallized , because in life it was composed of the mineral aragonite — chemically the same as calcite , but with a different crystal structure . |
| 24 | In this sense , one of the components of the personality is regarded as being inherently ‘ aggressive ’ , except that in life it is normally held in check by the mind . |
| 25 | Sometimes in life it has to be enough . ’ |
| 26 | Sheriffs served writs on the Royal and Ancient and the United States Golf Association and the two letter-writers say that if they are resolved of nothing else in life it is that , even if persuaded that their lavish handicaps would be significantly reduced by using Ping Eye2 clubs , they would never buy a set or play with anyone who has . |
| 27 | If she had one wish in life it would be that she could climb trees . |
| 28 | History in these days can be as much a consolation as it can be of an inspiration , and I also believe too that sometimes in life it 's very important to emancipate yourself from the shackles of the past in order to make the kind of decisions which it 's necessary to make in present conditions . |
| 29 | Many skills such as ploughing , using a scythe , working with horses , or developing an eye for livestock may take years to attain ; the later in life you come to it , the slower the progress . |
| 30 | I would say that if you 're sixty years old and looking for meaning in life you should not be listening to this kind of music . |