Example sentences of "own life [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A WOUNDED British woman told yesterday how her lover gave his own life to save her from death in the claws of a crazed grizzly bear . |
| 2 | Banquo sacrifices his own life to save his sons . |
| 3 | A coroner has paid tribute to a parachutist who sacrificed his own life to save a colleague . |
| 4 | At first Clare kept in touch with Annabel after her sister returned to New York , but as her own life became increasingly difficult , she found herself unable to write the sort of letter that would prop up Annabel 's crumbling self-esteem . |
| 5 | As he grew older his own life began to have more centre to it and he gave up yearning so hungrily after his mother 's attention . |
| 6 | She had written to her mother giving no address , saying that she had left her husband and was going abroad , that she could do nothing more for her mother and had her own life to live . |
| 7 | I have my own life to live . |
| 8 | Quick as a flash the doctor had cut the cord , passed the child to Matilda Jenkins , and was stitching away at Sarah as if his own life depended on it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Like you , I had my own life to return to , and I could n't wait . |
| 11 | But he let his father talk , finding it strange that only now should they reach this point of intimacy between them ; now when things were darkest , his own life blighted by the failure of his dreams , his father 's by ill health . |
| 12 | The story of his own life attracted almost 500 visitors on the first day . |
| 13 | He was glad that the design of his own life seemed , in the end , to be taking a shape that was not entirely haphazard . |
| 14 | At such time his own life seemed to him equally simple ; the components were there — they had been assembled . |
| 15 | Everything I did personally and everything I explored in my own life seemed part of this much wider political and social movement . |
| 16 | But Brynner was a star as well as a powerful personality and Rock 's own life tells of the effect that had . |
| 17 | Her own life had to go on . |
| 18 | She was very much upset , for her own life had been ‘ smashed up ’ by the deaths of her brothers . |
| 19 | If his own life had been as full he too could have dispensed with food . |
| 20 | Lane had been assisted by a woman police officer , Detective -Sergeant Phyllis Henley , a thickset girl , whom he had called in because she was an old friend or enemy of Roxie whose own life had not been without criminal excitements . |
| 21 | His own life had been so sheltered , so steady , so predictable . |
| 22 | I 've got my own life to lead . ’ |
| 23 | To have a week away , and with Fräulein Silber … even the thought of Omi faded as she thought of it ; after all , it would only be for one week , pushing away the traitorous thought that one week for herself was quite different from a week in Omi 's life , and , treachery giving way to treason , she did have her own life to lead ; and so she said , firmly , ‘ It will be all right , Fräulein . |
| 24 | ‘ Your own life to lead , ’ said the Matron , Miss Cress , startlingly smart in navy blue , with a chiffon blouse . |
| 25 | ‘ Because to be fair , Pat , your sister has her own life to lead , and we must all respect that . |
| 26 | She 's got her own life to lead , you know . ’ |
| 27 | You have your own life to lead . |
| 28 | The Hochhauser Season had given her the courage to defy Georg — not to quarrel with him , she did n't want to do that — but to make it plain she was now her own woman , with her own life to lead , a life that might or might not include him . |
| 29 | " I 've got my own life to lead , " Jenny said . |
| 30 | They all realised they 've got there own life to lead |