Example sentences of "his own life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty-nine of the prisoners have already died , Pilot Mohammed El Shamey has lost his mind , one has taken his own life . |
| 2 | But his work is always marked by elements of his own life , culminating in his final film , JUKTKI TAKKO AR GAPPO , which is virtually a self-portrait , depicting his own problems with alcoholism . |
| 3 | Saad had taken his own life the night the news had gone round that he 'd been caught sleeping with a travelling shepherd . |
| 4 | In hearing that word we recognise yet more astounding things that God does — like summoning us to share in the mystery of his own life . |
| 5 | In the long view he thought that his father 's unbending moral conviction was important in his own life . |
| 6 | Such confusions may draw , too , on Eliot 's fears about the barrenness of his own life and about losing his own creativity . |
| 7 | Locked in a marriage with a wife who showed increasing signs of mental instability and whose health constantly brought her to the point of death , exhausted in his work and fearing for his own life and sanity , Eliot 's view of relations between the sexes is at its bleakest , as is shown not least in the epigraphs , which were originally further universalized by including ( in the draft synopsis ) , |
| 8 | How does a son live his own life in the shadow of an overpowering father who is also a worldwide star ? |
| 9 | Stepson of a rabbi and product of a broken home , Laszlo was brought up in an orphanage , and it is clear that from a very early age this intense , obstinate man sought not only to bring order to his own life but to control to an unprecedented degree the environment of his future family . |
| 10 | The land someone cultivates is necessarily his : this is simply a special case of the fact that each man unquestionably has a right to his own life and labour , and so has the right to the products of that labour . |
| 11 | That was one of the reasons he liked living out at Little Knoll , so he could have his own life , his own place that none of them at school knew about . |
| 12 | He did n't care ; he had his own life in his own place — or had . |
| 13 | Nigel always worked best when he drew on his own life . |
| 14 | Even if he was able to create this myth out of his own life . ’ |
| 15 | This may partly account for the secrecy and guilt that surrounds the family if their relative is understood to have taken his own life . |
| 16 | He makes up for the boredom and emptiness of his own life by creating a dramatic emotional triangle for these puppets of his imagination , only to realise finally that his puppets are dancing to quite another tune . |
| 17 | Paul Leon , a Russian Jew , who was Joyce 's closest confidant and business adviser , risked his own life to return and deliver the papers to an Irish diplomat . |
| 18 | He is there to perform , so let's accept that he ( or she ) will take whatever risks with his body he deems appropriate to the importance in his own life of winning the prize . |
| 19 | For what Corigliano tackles head-on , and with an unashamed emotionalism , is the huge subject of the Aids crisis and the searing way in which it has impinged directly on his own life . |
| 20 | Drake , who served an unusual rock ‘ n ’ roll apprenticeship at Marlborough and Cambridge University , released three LPs of inspired , if doom-laden , songs before taking his own life in 1974 . |
| 21 | Had he not experienced this for himself , that God 's word and Spirit had worked powerfully in his own life ? |
| 22 | That threat of invasion was , however , removed , in 1805 , by the great naval victory at Trafalgar , in which Horatio Nelson destroyed the French fleet at the cost of his own life , This was followed by General Arthur Wellesley — who later became the Duke of Wellington — leading British troops into the Spanish Peninsula against Napoleon , who then began to experience considerable defeats , not the least of which was his retreat from Moscow in the winter of 1812 , and the following year saw the Duke of Wellington taking the war into France culminating in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 , which brought about the final defeat of Napoleon . |
| 23 | Locke , John ( 1632–1704 ) An English philosopher who in the context of his time ( and of his own life which involved a period of exile ) was a clear defender of toleration and free enquiry . |
| 24 | The fact that he lived with someone who slept by day , and the fact that his own life , centred around The Bar , was more or less nocturnal , made it seem quite normal to Boy to always consider the life of the city around him from the perspective of the night . |
| 25 | Boy never thought that anything on the television was ever about anything except his own life . |
| 26 | Above all , Jesus taught the truth with his own life . |
| 27 | Hence the alarmed thought on the part of many that he might have taken his own life . |
| 28 | As he grows older he is naturally nearer to the world outside school ; he is ready to demand a good reason for doing whatever he is asked to do ; and he is extremely easily distracted by the problems and dramas of his own life and hard times . |
| 29 | His pre-Wedding Present songs were either naïve social commentary or guileless recitals of his own life . |
| 30 | His father persuaded the minister to conduct the funeral service without reference to the fact that he took his own life . |