Example sentences of "on [prep] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so it goes on through life ; always a struggle between wanting to hold on to what we have at the same time as we are reaching out for new joys and satisfactions ; always the dilemma of making choices , of greedily wanting everything , of resenting having to let anything go . |
| 2 | Sheer mental power was the ability which Coleridge possessed which enabled him to accomplish this feat , as he does in ‘ Frost at Midnight ’ , when , sitting in his cottage he takes in the ‘ Sea , hill , and wood This populous village ! … with all the numberless goings on of life . ’ |
| 3 | The confusion between what belongs to me and what belongs to you ( in emotional terms ) goes on throughout life . |
| 4 | To form , use and sever cords is a feminine instinct that carries on throughout life , and not just in the process of physical motherhood . |
| 5 | The capacity for intellectual and psychological growth through learning goes on throughout life . |
| 6 | I was more or less resigned to the way things had turned out and just got on with life . |
| 7 | Well it 's ‘ easy come , easy go ’ in those places , you should put it behind you and carry on with life , that 's the best thing . |
| 8 | Repeatedly , he says that to brush a vicious old woman aside like a swatted fly and get on with life is to prove oneself a Napoleon — not Napoleon himself who lost whole armies and forgot about them , but a Napoleon . |
| 9 | You may trip over a couple of times on the way but you will be quite capable of picking yourself up and getting on with life until you have achieved your goal . |
| 10 | We get on with life and take pleasure in things whether she 's ill or not . |
| 11 | I 'll have to try to forget about Anne and get on with life — but it will be hard . ’ |
| 12 | One senior royal source said : ‘ Instead of simply forgetting Camilla and getting on with life he retreated further into himself . |
| 13 | You should relax for a while when you have finished before rushing off to get on with life . |
| 14 | You 've still got to get on with life ! |
| 15 | We turn up to funerals in everyday clothes , we refuse to let people send flowers so there is no opportunity for a communal expression of feeling , we are reluctant to take more than one day off work on the grounds that we 're better getting on with life as if weeping and mourning had no part in real life . |
| 16 | Children who have had happy , loving and stable early experiences will when hurt simply weep for a while to relieve the hurt , then get on with life . |
| 17 | Now she could get on with life , concern herself with the large airy matters like God and death and the problem of suffering ; forget , for a while , the goblin things — sex and money and regular meals . |
| 18 | They had to face reality and did not pine for what was not possible just got on with life as best they could . |
| 19 | Her instincts told her that if she was to survive in the world of industry and commerce she had to push the past to one side , and get on with life . |
| 20 | For a couple of days I got on with life 's rich pageant without thinking any more of Jo or her bloody credit cards . |
| 21 | For the most part people just want to get on with life as best they can . |
| 22 | Because of that , he should not be denied his right to receive care and treatment , aimed at allowing him to get on with life as normally as possible . |
| 23 | However , with so many friends wishing me well , sending flowers , gifts , letters , cards and asking after my welfare , getting better and getting on with life has been my priority . |
| 24 | They get on with it and they get on with life in the colleges and life may not be wonderful but they deal with it , and in some senses they are exercising what power they have , but what they get fed up with is constantly having to exercise it . |
| 25 | One view is that , even though the current physical self will perish , the spirit goes on from life to life ; if this is the case , one of the things that spirit has to learn is how to deal with all areas of negativity. 1 believe that , by the time the spirit enters the body , it has already chosen the lessons it wishes to learn and the difficulties it wishes to overcome during that lifetime . |
| 26 | I think that drama school stops you playing safe too early on in life and encourages you to take risks . |
| 27 | I was born a reject , in the gutter ; was bred in the gutter ; and had learnt , very early on in life , to walk close to the gutter . |
| 28 | There are other things going on in life . |
| 29 | This was a handicap which he never found time to remedy later on in life . |
| 30 | For example , a person who early on in life formed the assumption that they had to have everybody 's approval in order to be happy , could become depressed if they did not subsequently secure the approval of someone important to them . |