Example sentences of "in [pron] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never seen you in me life . ’ |
| 2 | It was the last intention in me life to saddle meself with her . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , I 've seen plenty like you in me life , Danny Burrows , only the majority of them were women . |
| 4 | I was never so upset in me life as when me own daughter called me a sinner . ’ |
| 5 | Overall winner and a quote of ‘ I 've never won nothing in me life ’ belonged to Kathy Jones-Mullins , AIB Ballinasloe . |
| 6 | Never in my life , he wrote , have I known so exactly what step to take after the step I am in the process of taking , and then what step to take after the step I will take after the step I am in the process of taking . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , I think that this needs saying , quite calmly and objectively , in this commentary , which will not spare me when I have done badly or in the wrong spirit or left half-done , but will not either , in a spirit of false modesty , gloss over those things in my life and work which have been a success , even , mildly , a triumph . |
| 8 | Yet it was as though that night , in the moonlight , in the silence , as though even the work , the months of steady labour , had only been an illusion , only the dream of work , the dream of progress , and I had not even begun and never would begin , though at different moments in my life I might have had the illusion that I had begun and even , perhaps , finished . |
| 9 | Having Goldberg in the room with it , as he has been in my life since that first day at college , made me grasp clearly , for the first time , just what it is I have been after , he wrote . |
| 10 | ‘ To my certain knowledge , Wendy , I have never set eyes on anyone called Margot Iverson in my life before . ’ |
| 11 | This noticeboard had already played a significant part in my life : nearly thirty years before then it had displayed the result of my own first degree ( second-class honours ) ; a few years later had come the perfunctory notice saying my doctoral thesis had been accepted by the college ; and shortly after that an even briefer note to the effect that I had joined the teaching staff . |
| 12 | Nothing much had happened in my life since the publication of my Carlo Fontana book nearly twenty years earlier ( though even that , as only three hundred copies were sold , was hardly a riot ) . |
| 13 | One of the great unanswered questions in my life is why Mrs Spence was going to antenatal classes that afternoon when , as she had already had one child , she presumably had a pretty good idea of what to expect . |
| 14 | I started to read newspapers and magazines more , and , for just about the first time in my life , I began to take an interest in current affairs . |
| 15 | However , at this new point in my life there seemed — as of course there was — nothing remarkable about what I was doing . |
| 16 | I do n't know how to approach this , but this is me , Sarah , your pathetically vile big sister , not able to find the words , but hoping you can see what I 'm trying to do — what I 'm trying to say — and please , please believe me when I say that I 'm not trying to run away from what I 've done , but if I could change somehow — obliterate — one thing I 've done in my life , one truly awful thing that I have done , it would be this . |
| 17 | I have never swum in my life , he thought , is he lay wakefully at dawn . |
| 18 | And I 'm Sagittarius but I 've never played tennis in my life . ’ |
| 19 | ( In the pursuit of performance-indicators , publication in ‘ refereed journals ’ counts for much , though I am not sure if I have ever appeared in a refereed journal in my life . ) |
| 20 | Mark smiled and said ‘ She would eat anything you gave her , I 've never known an animal like it in my life . ’ |
| 21 | The three major cinematic events in my life have functioned as harbingers to major changes in my own life , after which things were never quite the same . |
| 22 | I 'd never felt that tired in my life . |
| 23 | I 've never been so frightened in my life . ’ |
| 24 | So often in my life , where I 've made a mistake , it has been by taking the soft option . |
| 25 | It may be the only way in which I get what I want in my life . |
| 26 | In the supermarket recently , I crept up on the man in my life who was examining the label on a frozen gateau . |
| 27 | ‘ Meeting her was the turning point in my life , ’ he admits . |
| 28 | Yet , in the presence of Williams , he felt ‘ for the first time in my life … in the presence of personal sanctity … |
| 29 | ‘ I have never had to run so fast in a job in my life , and the incredible speed of things at the moment is all thanks to the recession , ’ he says . |
| 30 | ‘ It seemed like it was the hardest decision I ever had to make in my life . |