Example sentences of "[verb] [pos pn] lives for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , one might think , was an occasion when the symbol of national unity would be at its most needed , as citizens prepare to sacrifice their lives for King and Country : under conditions of national threat , the psychological strength of the symbol could be expected to be intensified ( Edelman , 1964 ; Sherif , 1966 ) . |
| 2 | She praised the gallantry , determination and sense of duty of the servicemen and women who had given their lives for their country . |
| 3 | To the scourge of this Depression dark voices were being added , and the shadows of armed conflict were beginning to impinge — a most unwelcome , even unbelievable thought to those who had , within the last 20 years , already risked their lives for King and country in ‘ The War To End All Wars . ’ |
| 4 | Bonnie Prince Charlie had a price of thirty thousand pounds on his head when he was being ferried hither and yon across many isles and sea-lochs of the Hebrides , and yet , and yet — the people of the west , such as Flora Macdonald and Malcolm Macleod of Raasay , risked their lives for a man they must have known in their hearts was a lost cause . |
| 5 | Every week one reads of Victoria Crosses being put up for sale by the hard-up families of men who willingly risked their lives for their country , yet at this very moment three holders of this supreme badge of courage live in unmarked graves on Merseyside . |
| 6 | Every week one reads of Victoria Crosses being put up for sale by the hard-up families of men who willingly risked their lives for their country , yet at this very moment three holders of this supreme badge of courage lie in unmarked graves on Merseyside . |
| 7 | She had not wanted to impose her ideas on her family , nor run their lives for them . |
| 8 | He had them exactly where every actor who ever lived wants his public , watching his every movement , letting him dictate their lives for a little moment . |
| 9 | The historian knows that something important occurred to transform the disciples from a huddle of frightened men into bold missionaries risking their lives for their faith . |
| 10 | We do n't want to have every last stop pulled out on our behalves in a last , heroic effort to extend our lives for a few more days or weeks or months . |
| 11 | It was like being in the adit of a mine , and I was driving into the bowels of the earth with a man who seemed hell bent on risking our lives for no apparent reason . |
| 12 | It can only do that , however , if more people come forward to share their lives for a day or two each month . ’ |
| 13 | They could still live their lives for Christ without sacrificing everything . ’ |
| 14 | As explained by a senior officer in the neighbourhood unit for the whole of B Division , which includes dangerous areas in West and North Belfast , ‘ men risk their lives for community policing ’ in this area . |
| 15 | Journalists risk their lives for the truth in Yugoslav conflict |
| 16 | Just inside the front porch , a handwritten book is prefaced with the words ‘ This book has been compiled that something , more than their mere names , may be known of the Lavenham men who gave their lives for their country in the Great War . ’ |
| 17 | Some sort of stone memorial , at the place where they fell , to heroes who gave their lives for France , yes , the Bishop thinks that may be in order . |
| 18 | There are coats of arms all around the Chamber of hon. Members who gave their lives for peace in Europe . |
| 19 | That reconciliation was not Franco 's guiding principle was clear from the decree he had issued on 1 April 1939 ( the same day he had signed the final war bulletin ) , ordering that a monument be built " to perpetuate the memory of those who fell in the Crusade of Liberation " and to honour " those who gave their lives for God and the Fatherland " . |
| 20 | ‘ Let them that owns the shop watch over it , ’ Mrs Bennet said , ‘ instead of skulking in Southport while the likes of youse risk yer lives for it . ’ |
| 21 | After all , we live our lives for the ability to indulge in pleasurable activities — and believe me , they are not all found at work ! |
| 22 | The Strathclyde Firemaster , John Jameson , said at the scene of the tragedy that the family had lost their lives for the price of a £5 smoke alarm . |
| 23 | No inquiries have been made into the 240 Ulster soldiers who sacrificed their lives for their country instead we see them being framed by our so called police force and left to spend their lives in a prison cell for crimes they did n't commit . |
| 24 | We 'd given our lives for their advancement . |
| 25 | And the scene of the burning of the books , seen on film by her many times , was as vivid as an actual memory : Hitler 's jack-booted thugs in their brown shirts , swastikas on their arms , heaving the books from the Library and heaping the heritage of the world on to a pyre , dancing and gloating as the flames consumed book after book , volume after volume : Heine , Schiller , Brecht , Thomas Mann , Einstein , Freud , Marx : history , poetry , novels , science , the works of philosophers , psychologists — men and women who had dedicated their lives for the betterment of the brutes who burned their books ; brutes living in utter ignorance , leading lives as dull and limited as the beasts of the fields , inspired only by resentment , vile prejudice , and blind hatred of what they could not understand , and , it was true , victims themselves of poverty and ignorance seeking victims in their turn — and finding them . |