Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] life [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not to be outdone … the man who created thunderbirds is performing his own one man show … explaining with the help of Lady Penelope 's nine foot long Pink Rolls Royce … and the original puppets who were brought to life for the first time over twenty five years ago . |
| 2 | Although men who were retained for life by a great magnate had an obligation to serve him in peace and war , and although there is little evidence about how the sub-contractors recruited their troops , neither the magnate captains nor their sub-contractors seem to have encountered much difficulty in persuading men to serve . |
| 3 | There was speculation that the tabloids were preparing for life under a Labour government . |
| 4 | Poole and Mills were jailed for life for the murder of Gloucester drug dealer Hensley Wiltshire in the city 's Conduit street , they 've always protested their innocence . |
| 5 | Two men , Thomas ‘ TC ’ Campbell and Joseph Steele were jailed for life for the murder of the six members of the Doyle family . |
| 6 | Two men , Thomas ‘ TC ’ Campbell and Joseph Steele were jailed for life for the Doyle murders . |
| 7 | Two men , Thomas ‘ TC ’ Campbell and Joseph Steele were jailed for life for the murder of the six members of the Doyle family . |
| 8 | THIRTY FIVE people died and others were maimed for life in the Clapham rail disaster in December last year because work was done in a slovenly , haphazard way and was then left unchecked . |
| 9 | The finished design was brought to life with the help of four top craftsmen handpicked by Carol . |
| 10 | The Scottish Cup remains the Pittodrie side 's only chance of a trophy this season and no doubt the sponsor , Tennents , will welcome their participation in the penultimate stage of a tournament which was brought to life by the courageous display of Clydebank , who had seemed crushed and then reshaped into tigerish opposition . |
| 11 | Valerie Slimp , 39 , was fighting for life as the venom from the deadly Brown Recluse Spider attacked the cells in her body . |
| 12 | He was barred for life from the game and angrily hired his own team of detectives to collect evidence to prove that all the other major clubs were also evading the regulations . |
| 13 | IN 1981 ex-police officer and Playboy bunny girl Lawrencia ‘ Bambi ’ Bembeneck was jailed for life for the murder of her husband 's ex-wife at home in Milwaukee . |
| 14 | Eddie Browning was jailed for life for the murder of Marie Wilkes from Worcester in 1988 . |
| 15 | Leroy Pearson , aged 52 , of Mitcham , Surrey , who axed his 30-year-old wife Leigh to death , was jailed for life at the Old Bailey yesterday .. |
| 16 | Donald Mackay , aged 41 , was jailed for life at the Old Bailey — and recommended to serve at least 40 years — for the murder of a prostitute , Ann Petherick , and for assaulting another prostitute , Rosemary Saunders . |
| 17 | Triple murderer Vernage , 27 , was jailed for life at the Old Bailey on Monday . |
| 18 | A MAN who bludgeoned two youths to death with a baseball bat was jailed for life at the High Court in Edinburgh yesterday . |
| 19 | Silcock said her son was banned for life from the Cambir Centre , run by Wandsworth MIND , after hitting a member of staff . |
| 20 | A RUSSIAN weightlifter was banned for life by the sport 's governing body after rejecting an Olympic bronze medal last night . |