Example sentences of "came to life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grand Metropolitan , which is believed to be keen to sell its extensive brewing interests , came to life in late trading , jumping 21p to 599p as the story flowed that Sir James Goldsmith and friends were stake-building . |
| 2 | Thirty years since Asterix came to life , sales of the books — 28 so far — have topped 180 million ( Asterix 's magic potion for superhuman strength enables them all to speak in 29 languages ) . |
| 3 | Everything came to life in the summer with the warm weather and long days . |
| 4 | At the moment when she suddenly needed to say something important to her boy and had no words for it , that gesture came to life and said on her behalf what she herself was unable to say . |
| 5 | At once the kneeling statues came to life . |
| 6 | Just as indisciplined and uncompromising Southampton threatened to turn United 's post-Wembley celebration into a night of disappointment , Kanchelskis came to life . |
| 7 | The seismic activity gradually increased in intensity until on Sunday , 20 May 1883 , Krakatoa abruptly came to life , announcing its re-awakening with a series of explosions audible in towns over 150 kilometres away . |
| 8 | Liam came to life again with ‘ 'T IS the last rose of summer … ’ |
| 9 | The tableau came to life , slowly at first , each horseman urging his mount forward into a walk , then a gentle trot . |
| 10 | The drivers , flushed and cursing , each trying to be the first into the city and to have their wares ready for sale before the city came to life . |
| 11 | At this , Pop came to life and leapt from his chair . |
| 12 | Described as ‘ cold , haughty , melancholy and dull ’ , he at least came to life in the splendour of his books , some eight hundred of which are in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris . |
| 13 | ‘ The first time it came to life was New Year 's Eve , when lots of my parent 's friends came down from Stockholm . |
| 14 | ‘ He evolved in such a way that really came to life for me , ’ she says . |
| 15 | But while they gave support and commitment , it was lesbians who were at the forefront of change when the Girls ' Work Movement came to life in the late seventies and early eighties . |
| 16 | Van Gelder had just left the bridge when another loudspeaker came to life , the repeated double buzzer identifying it as the radio-room . |
| 17 | He approached the fallen man , either to arrest him or make sure he was dead , whereupon Elliot came to life and stabbed Bothwell three times . |
| 18 | Her fingers were sliding over the satiny warmth of her skin , and in a sweet intimate flash of reminder , or of warning , her body ( her secret breathing body which she ignored for nearly all of her time , trying to forget it ) came to life and spoke to her . |
| 19 | While some , indeed most , planned towns established themselves successfully , others proved completely abortive , never came to life at all despite all the activity of the planners , including the king himself . |
| 20 | With the sun , the bargemen came to life . |
| 21 | He only came to life when she began unbuttoning his trousers , for as she touched his fly buttons , so he grabbed at his belt . |
| 22 | As one Anglican incumbent noted , the liturgy ‘ came to life in a new way ’ with such music and the recent publication of Gospel Praise reflects the growing interest in it . |
| 23 | I put on the dress and it suddenly came to life . |
| 24 | The engine turned , was slow to fire before it came to life . |
| 25 | Tutilo came to life with a shudder and a start , golden flames kindling in his eyes . |
| 26 | Warm rain began to fall and the land came to life . |
| 27 | The room came to life in a soft , yellow glow . |
| 28 | Richard 's Johnson , obedient to the pressed button , came to life at once , and she saw that it had never occurred to him that it might n't . |
| 29 | She got off the ground so quickly with her public relations it was squashed almost before it came to life . " |
| 30 | ‘ That 's the way to do it , ’ said Araminta pleased , as all the puppets came to life again for a curtain call . |