Example sentences of "his life [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What you must do is help him forget ; plunge him in business as your father would have done ; save him from ruining the rest of his life hunting for vengeance . ’ |
| 2 | Did he think it more important to get back to his life work ? |
| 3 | It was at his home that Galileo renewed his life work , that on mechanics and motion . |
| 4 | Either way , it 's bound to treble his life insurance payments . |
| 5 | And if , later that day , 20 newsmen and photographers had turned up at our family bonfire party and witnessed my hysterical attempt to restrain my husband from re-lighting that dud super-rocket ( well , I was n't sure his life insurance was paid up ) , speculation as to the real state of our marriage could doubtless have made dramatic headlines . |
| 6 | If Nicky Scott Wilson wanted to keep his life secret , that was fine by her ; but he need n't expect her to be a part of it , in that case . |
| 7 | I was , after all , living with a man who was stealing from me , keeping part of his life secret from me , who expected me to adapt myself to his obsessive timekeeping . |
| 8 | A number of the male houses were little better ; the Benedictine house of Sele had a non-resident prior in the 1460s who was given to selling off the moveable goods to keep up his life style . |
| 9 | Aspects of his work , his life style , are disagreeable to him in the extreme . |
| 10 | After understanding this , you need to learn as much as possible about what makes him " tick " ; how does he handle himself in business ; what are his job ambitions ; is he married and a family man or still single ; what are his interests in sports , gardening , sailing and other leisure pursuits ; can you define his life style . |
| 11 | He 's a very well spoken , he 's er a well educated man , speaks fluent French , er was living in a very large house , very much involved in the er racing fraternity er car racing , motor racing fraternity , was regularly seen at Brans Hatch , er mixed with er a lot of well known personalities in that field , er generally speaking his life style er was very good indeed . |
| 12 | GUNMAN Albert Dryden , 53 , who shot dead a council chief outside his Co Durham home , is appealing against his life sentence for murder . |
| 13 | Gardiner was then driven away to continue his life sentence at Gartree Prison in Leicestershire . |
| 14 | For the last ten years of his life Sabatini retired to Clock Mill , Clifford , near Hereford . |
| 15 | He had his own rooms and spent the last few years of his life reading and receiving a stream of aristocratic visitors , including the princess of Wales , venturing forth occasionally for trips to the theatre organized through the actress Madge Kendal [ q.v . ] . |
| 16 | She took a taxi outside the station and the driver promptly launched into his life history : he had worked hard all his life for one of the big oil companies , inspecting petrol pumps all over Suffolk and had been made redundant in his early fifties with the very minimum of redundancy money . |
| 17 | In addition Mr Patient is very likely to have had one or two close friends , probably from some ti me back in his life history , who may be dramatically affected by his death , even though they may not be visibly there close by or apparently very emotionally involved . |
| 18 | His performance was suffering and could be found more and more often in saloon bars , pouring down whisky , and pouring out his life history to some new-found friend . |
| 19 | The elderly man who tells you his life history while you 're serving him . |
| 20 | Towards the end of his life Gouzenko went blind but the news was kept so secret that in 173 MI5 sent an agent to show him some photographs in the hope that he could recognise Hollis . |
| 21 | He has Hungary 's second highest academic title in Marxist philosophy , has spent half his life teaching and disseminating the official ideology , and is one of the leaders of the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party , which calls itself the ‘ vanguard of the working class ’ . |
| 22 | He 's spent most of his life teaching . |
| 23 | His life expectancy is falling and he is seven times as likely to be murdered as a white boy . |
| 24 | After last month 's report , Rab notes that he used peg runners , selfishly prolonging his life expectancy . |
| 25 | His life expectancy was now very limited ; it was estimated at between 12 months and two years . |
| 26 | Mr Gregory was told by his GP in early 1990 to stop drinking or his life expectancy would be no more than five to ten years . |
| 27 | In the final months of his life Atwater expressed remorse for some of the methods which he had employed during his career . |
| 28 | Within five minutes of ordering lunch or a drink , someone will tell you his life story . |
| 29 | THE MACHO MAN : His present is his presence : his life story , a feel of his biceps , a drunken kiss to any woman who is silly enough to stray within reach of his groping ; and , if he is feeling generous , the promise of a night out at his local . |
| 30 | These grass-smoking disciples flocked to his open house like moths to hear him reciting his life story , or his predictions with the tarot cards , or discussing Camus , or analysing Jean-Paul Sartre . |