Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] life he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wordsworth 's poetic fluency had never been greater , and the landscape near Tintern Abbey , revisited after an absence of five years , released from him a stream of meditative blank verse quite different in style from the humble poems of rural life he had been writing for the Lyrical Ballads . |
| 2 | Aloof in temperament , in private life he was pious , charitable , and of a simple way of living . |
| 3 | In private life he was very generous , and gave a large sum anonymously to St Edmund Hall , the first £10,000 characteristically arriving in a dirty used envelope . |
| 4 | In early life he was employed by Mr R S Woulfe , a Methodist merchant in household and Mr Donovan was converted and had to leave home for employment in the North of Ireland . |
| 5 | He recalls in On Some of the Mental Affections of Childhood and Youth ( 1887 ) that in early life he had seen that ‘ children who were afflicted by mental alienation or mental incapacity of any kind ’ were categorized as idiots and considered incapable of responding to help . |
| 6 | From early life he had been deeply interested in evangelical Christianity ( he published , anonymously , a religious tract at the age of fourteen ) , and he had an abiding belief in personal social service . |
| 7 | In real life he would have been sued for millions and his story turned into a mini-series , but it 's nice to dream . |
| 8 | ‘ He got annoyed when I said that though and said it was n't true , so I 'd like this time to say that although he appears to be very clever on stage and TV , in real life he is extremely stupid . ’ |
| 9 | In real life he s a bollox left back . |
| 10 | But if anyone could relax her , it was Miguelito , if in real life he was as tender , as passionate and as exciting as the music he made . |
| 11 | In real life he flies Andovers at RAF Benson in Oxfordshire , but for now he 's pawing over charts of a different kind , plotting his route to the eastern seaboard of the United States . |
| 12 | In later life he was fond of Tom Stoppard 's remark about being a bounced Czech . |
| 13 | Either way , in later life he looked back on that experience as evidence that dancing could be part of everyday life in a way that it is not for most Europeans . |
| 14 | In later life he said that he was terrified of his father and found his mother over-possessive . |
| 15 | In later life he expanded this social interest , even attempting to enter Parliament , standing as a candidate for East Worcestershire in 1874 , but his platform , based on proposals to deal with the health problems of prostitution near garrisons and naval establishments , attracted little support . |
| 16 | In later life he had to be subsidized by the teetotal movement and lived with his eldest sister . |
| 17 | In later life he was an invalid . |
| 18 | In later life he seems to have returned to his early interest in astronomy ( on which he had already been writing papers at the age of eighteen ) . |
| 19 | Russell was taken up in this for a time , he even wrote wonderful piece on the foundations of geometry couched in erm a sort of vaguely dialectical form , which in later life he erm pronounced as being complete rubbish . |
| 20 | It is what , in Mixed Life he would call the " sparcle of is blissid fier , is him silf " ( 39.450 – 1 ) . |
| 21 | Copland — was , at 44 , getting on in years for commando work , but as a works manager in civilian life he had the experience of technical organisation needed for such ventures . |
| 22 | Back in civilian life he was foreman for a Darlington decorating firm , Jack Stead , and the couple moved into the town 's Rockingham Street . |
| 23 | As Thurlow sums him up , ‘ in everyday life he was a small insignificant man in an ordinary suit … but take off the uniform of the city solicitor and put on the running singlet and the track shoes and the transformation was amazing ’ . |
| 24 | In earlier life he had been in Canada and it is certain that at least some youthful potential emigrants to Canada were inspired by his accounts of life there . |