Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] for life " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Imperium had assigned them for life to Quintus , to assist in its uplift . |
| 2 | He and Peter have always been good friends and David is the type of lad that once he 's made friends with someone , he has made it for life , ’ says Brian Gedge . |
| 3 | One bullet in the wrong place can cripple you for life or send your blood gushing on to the pavement . |
| 4 | He asked you for life , and you gave it to him — |
| 5 | Home Economics should not lose its status as a subject , because the knowledge attained by pupils prepares them for life . |
| 6 | The Army prepares you for life , it makes you grow up and learn discipline . |
| 7 | ‘ Our boxes are environmentally-friendly and if you buy a bacon storer you know you have got it for life . ’ |
| 8 | And we know they 've learnt something , they 've understood it and they 've got it for life . |
| 9 | It all started out as a silly student prank , but it was to mark me for life . |
| 10 | You read it in the papers : it could ruin you for life , witnessing a murder . |
| 11 | He bent down , preparing to lever the baby into the world with his special forceps without either crippling it for life , and killing it , or the mother , or both of them . |
| 12 | He was reactivating them for life . |
| 13 | She was married to a man who believed her to be a traitor and a spy , a man who had stood beside her during a ceremony that bound them for life and had not once looked at her , nor touched her except to push a heavy , engraved ring on to her finger . |
| 14 | In some ways I feel her peculiar dilemma parallels my own for she described her stance as one which distanced her from the classical anthropological mode , creating a ‘ memorable adventure ’ , which she claims , ‘ has marked me for life ’ ( ibid. 22 ) . |
| 15 | If we can write back to somebody , or send them the CD or shirt they want , we will almost certainly have them for life . |
| 16 | It is therefore essential to find a form of activity we enjoy so that we are happy to practise it two or three times a week and continue it for life . |
| 17 | He says most of the lads that were out there were in their late teens , early 20 's and for them it was an adventure to go out to the tropics — then when you realise what it was about — well it 's marked us for life there 's no two ways about it . |
| 18 | Obviously she will often clash with the adults who are grooming her for life . |
| 19 | Whippings in Sri Lanka were carried out with a cat-o-nine-tails and flayed the back of the prisoner , scarring him for life . |
| 20 | But doctors decided not to patch up her wounds in casualty for fear of scarring her for life . |
| 21 | But doctors decided not to patch up her wounds in casualty for fear of scarring her for life . |
| 22 | Another day of dreadful toil had come to the industrial ghettos of early Victorian Glasgow , a world often forgotten and ignored , a world echoed throughout Britain where families lived and died bounded by a few streets , walled from the world of green and life by an invisible fence , a dead hand that bound them in chains of language , and rags , and marked them for life more surely than any thief was ever branded at Glasgow Cross . |
| 23 | The moulding was hard and marked him for life . |
| 24 | ‘ To have banned him for a few months would have been one thing , but to take him to court and ban him for life seemed to defeat the object of the exercise . ’ |
| 25 | saying , ban him for life . |
| 26 | Men were naturally more active and intelligent , while women had evolved characters that fitted them for life in a world dominated by aggressive males . |
| 27 | Jailing him for life , the judge told Lashley : ‘ You are an appalling and dangerous man ’ . |
| 28 | Johnson 's problem was the IAAF 's problem , and the bottom line was that when he was caught cheating in Seoul , the powers-that-be imposed the statutory punishment of two years rather than banning him for life . |
| 29 | Had it traumatised her for life ? |
| 30 | They were strongly reprimanded by Woman 's Own whose editor made the strange assumption that large hips were synonymous with big feet , and she said the well corsetted woman has a good figure that will last her for life , and feet many times smaller than those of the uncontrolled . |