Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] a life " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his heart , Gedge had mapped out a life for Rigby and himself . |
| 2 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |
| 3 | Once a project is on a donor 's priority list it takes on a life of its own , and may become unstoppable . |
| 4 | Her novel had remained relevant over two centuries simply because Frankenstein was the archetype of the scientist whose research , pursued in the sacred name of increasing knowledge , takes on a life of its own and causes untold misery before being brought under control . |
| 5 | Next you come to the dark ride where history takes on a life of its own and light , movement and sound come together to give you a realistic living picture of the town and its history . |
| 6 | Draw up a life table for a cohort of 5000 students showing , for each year of study , the probability of leaving and the expected remaining stay calculated on the assumption that one-tenth of the leavers in any year depart at random times during the year and the remainder go at the end of that year . |
| 7 | Gabrielle went to stay with her parents in the Kent countryside for a few days after the hearing , collected her thoughts and decided to carve out a life for herself and her children . |
| 8 | I may have the idea that makes me start putting the brush strokes down , but at some point the canvas will take on a life of its own and lead me off in a direction I never expected to go . |
| 9 | ‘ Your reflections , ’ Hope cried out to the apparently enraptured merchant , ‘ set off my own — as do all the most acute thoughts , scattering from the hand like seeds , each of which can take on a life of its own , and I confess that I became absorbed in those great matters of morality and commerce raised by your eloquent conversation . ’ |
| 10 | However , if staff are to remain in touch with each other , and the head is to remain in touch with all staff , close attention needs to be paid to communication , and to ensuring that managerial procedures like school philosophies and policy statements remain rooted in day-to-day needs and realities rather than take on a life of their own . |
| 11 | When knowledge becomes formulated into a science , then it does take on a life of its own , often alien to the human spirit that conceived it . ’ |
| 12 | Just as a doctor may decide to switch off a life support machine because the patient is in effect dead , so care workers could ‘ switch off ’ the services on which the old person is totally dependent for care in the community , thus making admission to an institution inevitable . |
| 13 | Many girls do manage to survive and come out able to build up a life for themselves , but the odds are stacked against them . |
| 14 | Well looking back on it now it seems almost a life time away but it 's amazing just how well you can remember those far off days . |
| 15 | Slowly , but surely , the machine knitting project is taking on a life of its own . |
| 16 | As an example , the Lewis Association was formed in the 1930's , and it took on a life of its own by promoting research and by issuing booklets . |
| 17 | ‘ My sideburns sort of took on a life of their own . |
| 18 | In Aenarion 's hand the Sword of Khaine dripped smouldering blood and the daemonic blade took on a life of its own . |
| 19 | We all spurred and whipped as we reached the bottom of the hill to keep up pace for the snow underfoot made the going heavy , when both Bowyer 's horse and that of Southgate suddenly took on a life of their own . |
| 20 | The snag was , everything had seemed perfectly fine and reasonable written down in black and white — but the book had omitted to mention that on snow the skis took on a life all of their own . |
| 21 | Once this broader scope for mainstream American linguistics was established , pragmatics soon took on a life of its own , for the issues raised are interesting and important in their own right . |
| 22 | Clearly no one person could get round five parishes , control five PCCs , prop up the fabric of five buildings , look to a couple of church school governing bodies , visit , bury and comfort the sick , dead and bereaved , let alone baptise , prepare for confirmation and marry five sets of parishioners and at the same time keep up a life of prayer . |
| 23 | He took out a life insurance policy for a hundred and twelve pounds three weeks before the last court appearance . |
| 24 | Some of the water-pipes in the town of Wilhelmshaven , Germany seem to have taken on a life of their own . |
| 25 | This was a memorandum that seemed to have taken on a life of its own : now here , now there , now one , now several , now alone , now gone , now lurking . |
| 26 | The contracts which western utilities signed in the 1970s and 1980s to reprocess their nuclear waste have taken on a life of their own . |
| 27 | Her houses , too , have taken on a life of their own . |
| 28 | Others , students or young people working away from their family home , start out a life alone full of hope , anticipation and excitement . |
| 29 | Characteristic of his style is his intensely naturalistic carving of man and nature ; the carved drapery folds seem to take on a life of their own . |
| 30 | Although strongly influenced by Dicey , the tradition comes to take on a life of its own . |