Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [pron] life " in BNC.
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1 | How can you stay detached when my life is disintegrating ? |
2 | Accuracy of language was crucial when your life was at risk and each use of ‘ Loyalist ’ , when applied to the Protestant equivalents of the IRA , had been to Trent , a Catholic himself by birth , an insult to the Catholic community of whom the vast majority were as opposed to the evils of terrorism as they were to the injustices of long-practised prejudice on which Irish terrorism bred . |
3 | Sad though his life was from then on until his death in 1864 , his poems — many of them — remained joyful . |
4 | One might almost pity the frail old man in East Berlin , seemingly helpless and uncomprehending as his life 's work crumbles around him . |
5 | " I will love Topaz as long as my life lasts and , if I ca n't have her , I wo n't marry at all . |
6 | She feels guilty because my life 's been threatened . |
7 | ‘ It 's more than my life 's worth . ’ |
8 | It will be more than my life 's worth if I let you get away again . ’ |
9 | Rose and Mary do n't come in till midday and it 's more than my life 's worth to go and ask them to come in early , and Feargal is in desperate need of some help ! ’ |
10 | More than my life 's worth |
11 | ‘ Is your damned work more important than your life ? |
12 | But they did not know how happy until their life in London was over , and they had to live a very different life indeed . |
13 | In the last year of a brief life at the heart of a kind of doting celebrity that knew the value of success , he fell into notoriety of the sort that is just as American as his life . |
14 | Some people aged 80 would not consider major surgery worthwhile because their life is near to close , but others would judge quite differently . |