Example sentences of "of [pron] early life " in BNC.
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| 1 | How on earth I came through all those perils unscathed , unarrested , is one of the miracles of my early life . |
| 2 | Fifteen years or so after these events of my early life in secondary school it is hard to remember now how important all these things were . |
| 3 | These are books by middle-aged semi-Scots who have chosen to publish accounts of their early lives which lay stress on the troubles they experienced , on the troubles inflicted , within their respective environments , by poverty and servitude , and on the responsibility of relatives for some of what the writers had to suffer . |
| 4 | It is a fact that when people grow old they often turn to the church of the teachings of their early lives as a source of comfort . |
| 5 | Mrs Markus was born Erika Scharfstein on June 27 , 1910 , in what is now Romania , and spent most of her early life in Vienna . |
| 6 | It 's hard to divine the facts of her early life since her autobiography , Lady Sings The Blues , is full of tawdry details which are as likely to be figments of a pulp imagination as they are the truth : the way she tells it , she was routinely mistreated and beaten , recruited for a brothel and more or less saved only by a small talent for holding a tune . |
| 7 | ‘ Your wife has repressed the memory of much of her early life , Brian . ’ |
| 8 | Some aspects of her early life are suggested in her pseudo-anonymous biography of her father ; otherwise , little is known . |
| 9 | [ Biographical preface by Dollie Radford to Everyman edition of Granny 's Wonderful Chair , 1906 ; memoir of her early life in Frances Browne , The Star of Attéghei , 1844 . ] |
| 10 | Her father had been an army officer of fairly high rank , and she 'd spent most of her early life in a military environment . |
| 11 | He is to learn about the troubles of his early life by interviewing the servants of the family and by submitting to the interviews of psychoanalysis . |
| 12 | ‘ So we are trying to fill out the details of his early life . |
| 13 | This gulf is shown most dramatically in the surprise ending , which obliges us to re-evaluate our reading of the novel by revealing that the anonymous , timid and sensitive lad who has been narrating the story of his early life in the first person is none other than Jaguar , the aggressive bully we have seen ruling the roost in the school . |
| 14 | At this distance it is impossible to tell if Gert could have made more of his early life if he had been given the chance to make use of the ‘ creative ability ’ spotted early on by one of his helpers . |
| 15 | For four years of his early life he lived at the court of King Philip II , to whom he did feudal homage in 1214 . |
| 16 | Little is known of his early life , except that he was the son of a judge 's clerk , of upper-middle class background , and that the male members of the family were engaged in either the legal or ecclesiastical professions . |
| 17 | Little is known of his early life except for his recollection that at the age of nine or ten he ‘ did so offend the Lord that He did scare and terrify me with dreadful visions ’ , and that he was greatly afflicted at that time with thoughts of the Day of Judgement . |
| 18 | With its overtly Flaubertian title echoing La Tentation de Saint Antoine , Stephen Eisenman has divided his study of the graphic oeuvre of Odilon Redon into three chapters and an epilogue ostensibly treating themes of his early life , popular culture and what he has called ‘ the crucible of Symbolism ’ . |
| 19 | The details of his early life are not known , but by 1450 he was apprenticed to Robert Botiller , a goldsmith in London , and by 1458 had become a lowys ( the term used in the records of the Goldsmiths ' Company to describe someone allowed to practise the craft ) . |
| 20 | A year later , on Tuesday , 13 April 1773 , Boswell ‘ again solicited him to communicate to me the particulars of his early life . |
| 21 | Nothing is known of his early life , but it is clear that he acquired practical experience of chemistry and engineering . |
| 22 | Nothing is known of his early life except that his background was in the building trades — in 1724 he was described as a bricklayer , and later as a carpenter — but by the mid-1720s he had established two connections which brought him a place amongst the innermost circles of English Palladianism . |
| 23 | Much of his early life was spent in Italy for reasons of health . |
| 24 | Very little is known of his early life : Matthias Koops stated that he had ‘ for several years served in different distinguished military characters , under the late Emperor of Germany , and King of Prussia ’ . |
| 25 | Little else is known of his early life . |
| 26 | Almost nothing is known of his early life . |
| 27 | , Francis ( c. 1583–1658 ) , goldsmith , MP , and regicide , was probably born in London , though nothing is known of his early life . |
| 28 | Little is known of his early life , save that he had a brother , William , went to school in Middle Street , Brighton , and , on his father 's death , went to live with Tom Box , the well-known wicket-keeper . |
| 29 | Nothing is known of his early life , but by March 1797 ‘ Mrs Bullock and Son ’ were conducting modelling and drawing lessons at their ‘ Modelling and Statuary Warehouse ’ , 29 Bull Street , Birmingham . |
| 30 | As the inventor of the ‘ Nicol prism ’ , his name will continue to be remembered well beyond the world of optical physics , but details of his early life are hard to discover . |