Example sentences of "spend a lifetime " in BNC.
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| 1 | And for the ‘ trimming ’ of previous Conservative leaders she borrowed Kipling 's words : ‘ I do n't spend a lifetime watching which way the cat jumps . |
| 2 | I mean , as a guitar player you always tend to listen to other guitar players , and you can spend a lifetime just doing that , but once you start translating from other instruments , then that 's a whole other thing . |
| 3 | One could spend a lifetime in Granada and still not see everything . |
| 4 | Scotland was well endowed with its own gangsters in the '60s , but local sociology ensured that most of them never became famous , unless of course they spent a lifetime suffering in brutal prison cells and re-emerged as award-winning sculptors . |
| 5 | The only possibility of further promotion was to ( proof- ) reader , a step taken by some of the women who spent a lifetime in the trade . |
| 6 | Tom Keating spent a lifetime cocking a snook at the art world . |
| 7 | Charles was too sensitive for his liking , too intellectual , too philosophical , and although Charles adored his father and has spent a lifetime trying to please him and be as he would like , he has never really succeeded . |
| 8 | I 've spent a lifetime meeting the right sort of people . ’ |
| 9 | It is a view from the terraces written by a fan who has spent a lifetime supporting two of the world 's great lost causes , the Scotland national team and St Johnstone FC . |
| 10 | There is no evidence that he has actually coached his chosen club but one feels that he has spent a lifetime imbibing its history . |
| 11 | ‘ But you ca n't have spent a lifetime with someone and not feel some affection for them . ’ |
| 12 | For friends such as Hussa and Maha who had spent a lifetime with the family such formalities scarcely mattered any more . |
| 13 | She had spent a lifetime obeying the rule of her childhood never to give way to her feelings in public , and like many . |
| 14 | Theodore was a cheerful , plump man in his late forties , with a pale face and thick pebble glasses , those last a very probable consequence of having spent a lifetime poring over abstruse codes . |
| 15 | Like his father before him , he has spent a lifetime fighting against Chaos warbands , raiding Norse , and marauding Orcs , not to mention the occasional forays of bandits from Kislev . |
| 16 | Sand had spent a lifetime being the older woman ; in the case of her friendship with Flaubert she went one decade further and became a mother-substitute . |
| 17 | Both Margaret Thatcher and James Callaghan , for instance , had worked their way up through the structure of party ; they had spent a lifetime in politics and had served long periods of apprenticeship , first as backbenchers and then as junior ministers , ministers and shadow cabinet members . |
| 18 | The report on the coarse wares is very illuminating for the views at that time of a man who had spent a lifetime handling pottery . |
| 19 | It comes as a shock , I have to tell you , to anyone who 's spent a lifetime dealing with the perfectly decent chaps you run into at Thames Water . ’ |
| 20 | She thought of Felicity Wells , the senior mistress , passionate about George Herbert and Anglo-Catholicism , who had spent a lifetime tempting with these fine things girls from this dirty town . |
| 21 | She is trying out exciting sports she has spent a lifetime wanting to try . |
| 22 | I have tremendous admiration for anyone who has spent a lifetime in the mining industry , especially at the coalface . |
| 23 | We have , in our company , many highly experienced people who have spent a lifetime in our industry . |
| 24 | When you 've spent a lifetime looking after OTHER people , it 's nice to be pampered for a change . |
| 25 | He 's spent a lifetime building up his two hundred acre farm on the site of the proposed reservoir : |
| 26 | ‘ People slipping on banana skins are n't funny , but people spending a lifetime trying to figure out the meaning of the banana are . |
| 27 | Strictly speaking , small pets like fish , birds or mice might be carefully wrapped in plastic and disposed of with the normal waste collection but after spending a lifetime with a faithful companion an owner might be reluctant to part with a pet in this way . |
| 28 | On the other hand , people whose words are not answered may have to spend a lifetime screaming for what they want or need , convinced that only if they demand loudly , cajole , beg , bully or threaten , will they obtain what they want . |
| 29 | The absence of her own , however , has enabled her to spend a lifetime amusing and instructing other people 's . |
| 30 | But except for that small minority who are going to spend a lifetime in academic pursuits , there must come a time when education for the great majority needs to become more vocational , more concerned with professional training ’ . |