Example sentences of "all [pron] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's not much chance of finding an 'usband down 'ere and Aah 've no wish ti stop an old maid all me life . |
| 2 | I ai n't dyin' to wear grey all me life , y'know . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I tell yer , Joe old cock , my bleedin' trouble is that I 'm misunderstood meself , I been sufferin' misunderstandin' all me life . |
| 4 | ‘ I have all me life to do that . ’ |
| 5 | She complains cheerfully as we enter saying , ‘ Jaz I 've never had so many people kissin' me in all me life , strangers and all , you 'd tink I was in Italy or England or America , God forbid ! ’ |
| 6 | An' I du n no 'ow long I 'll be livin' 'fore I 'm sick like yore ol' lady 'angin' rahnd ver launjrette an' waitin' up fer ol' man an' 'avin' Gawd knows 'ow many kids 'angin' rahnd me an' ‘ Mummy this ’ and ‘ Mummy that ’ my Gawd if you mus ' know Sharon all my life all I fuckin' wanner do is shine up there like a dancer or sunnink . |
| 7 | All my life , he wrote , I have been preparing myself for this moment , but if I have prepared myself correctly then it is so that when the moment came I should not be encumbered with the sensation of having waited for it all my life , for such a sensation , wrote Harsnet , is too heavy a burden for anyone to carry . |
| 8 | All my life , he wrote , I have been preparing myself for this moment , but if I have prepared myself correctly then it is so that when the moment came I should not be encumbered with the sensation of having waited for it all my life , for such a sensation , wrote Harsnet , is too heavy a burden for anyone to carry . |
| 9 | All my life a preparation for my version of this combination ? he wrote . |
| 10 | All my life , he wrote , I have used art to fight against myself . |
| 11 | All my life I have suffered because of Father being important . |
| 12 | ‘ My friend , all my life I have been lying . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've wanted to do that all my life , ’ he said . |
| 14 | ‘ And you just got up in front of Henry and those pipsqueaks in your department and said , ‘ Sorry and all that , old chaps , but I 've been wrong all my life and led you into error and wickedness ’ ? ’ |
| 15 | If you 're administering , you might as well administer something that is new and challenging rather than doing something I had been doing all my life . |
| 16 | After all , I have had to live with a big bottom all my life ! |
| 17 | All my life has been work and each other . ’ |
| 18 | Margaret Thatcher seems to have been Prime Minister all my life , and the Falklands War is just a vague and fearful memory of someone else 's brother going off to fight . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've spent all my life in general PR , but it was about eight years ago I decided that there was room for a specialist agency , not really a PR firm , which was concerned entirely with government relations . |
| 20 | You scoff at me and my ‘ one ’ man friend , you who have so many , but dear girl I have learnt more in the short time of my friendship with Edward , more of the world , of men as distinct from women , and man as an individual than in all my life I have learnt before . |
| 21 | I 've been escaping all my life . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've never been so uncomfortable in all my life . |
| 23 | All my life I have seen that type of person , handsome and self-assured , who knew he could have me just by crooking a finger and beckoning me to follow . |
| 24 | My heart always jumped with fright whenever I saw one of my poems in print , because I was sure it would contain one of the misprints whose steady drizzle has haunted my work all my life . |
| 25 | Lively and headstrong , considered beautiful in her day ( and there had been something proud about her — the way she held her head ) , she had married well and had lived abroad for almost all my life . |
| 26 | Then I had expected to feel cold in winter , both indoors and out of doors , all my life . |
| 27 | And anyway , ’ said Marie , ‘ I 've known Gazzer all my life . ’ |
| 28 | She said , ’ — and here Simon mimicked Marie 's voice , exaggerating her slow , hesitant way of speaking — ‘ she said : ‘ I 've known Gazzer all my life … . ’ |
| 29 | I 've known him all my life . |
| 30 | ‘ Bear in mind I 've lived here all my life , ’ Jos said . |