Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [subord] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard says he started ski-ing on the coast and then one day went out with skies and that 's how he started barefoot … he says three years ago he stopped competing as life or death and just goes out to enjoy himself |
| 2 | Almost six feet eight inches ( 2 metres ) tall , he seemed larger than life in most of his actions , blond , handsome , with great charisma that was much better suited to the Test arena than to the county grind ; a Test batting average of 40 compared to a career average of 31 shows this perfectly . |
| 3 | Many seemed larger than life . |
| 4 | Worrying about your problems , which seem larger than life at that time of night , is hard to resist . |
| 5 | ‘ She dispensed with the vest because it made her feel larger than life . |
| 6 | ( thanking me for my congratulations on her beautiful master-piece ) : ‘ It is hopeless the way life has to change , and become less than life . |
| 7 | This is because our movements slowly become stereotyped as life goes on and we tend to move in a way that feels ‘ right ’ to us . |
| 8 | The 64-year-old actor is probably best known for playing larger than life council labourer Selwyn Froggit on TV in the 1970s . |
| 9 | While longing and longing for their arrival , she had feared they would seem larger than life in the sedate village . |
| 10 | In the cameos of street life , certain characters appeared larger than life , as the source of ritualized conflict . |
| 11 | He had been standing large as life beside Lady Usk , and it was plain that he knew her identity . |
| 12 | And , though the story kills off the painter , the big draw himself is sure to return larger than life . |