Example sentences of "[conj] my [adj] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not mean to imply , he wrote , that nothing existed before that moment , no plans , no designs , no sketches and no notes , of course there were plans and designs , sketches and notes , how could there not be , he wrote , when my whole life has been nothing but a preparation for this beginning , not only in the sense that everyone 's life is always a preparation for every beginning in that life but in the quite specific sense that my own life has always been a preparation for this beginning , nothing but a preparation for this beginning , both consciously and unconsciously , with everything I have done as well as everything I have thought , everything I have felt as well as everything I have suffered . |
| 2 | But 40%–60% of every character is one 's self and the point is that the fiction would be a truer picture of my spiritual life than my own life . |
| 3 | In 1976 with the Tories gaining votes I left my friends , my lover , my job and my political life in Ireland . |
| 4 | I try to keep work and my private life separate . ’ |
| 5 | I 've been working in a male environment now for several years , and I 've got quite used to hearing my colleagues speculate about me and my private life ! |
| 6 | One moment and my whole life was ruined . |
| 7 | I 'm Mrs Arbuthnot and my whole life is changed for ever . |
| 8 | Years later he will note : " I have at all times written with my whole body and my whole life . |
| 9 | I have no energy to go out and my social life is nonexistent . |
| 10 | There was Guillaume Apollinaire and Henry Miller , Pisanus Fraxi and My Secret Life , Frank Harris 's My Life and Loves and a dozen others . |
| 11 | as if my whole life , he wrote , had been spent working at the glass and at the same time had been spent doing nothing at all . |
| 12 | I felt then as if my whole life had collapsed . |
| 13 | It looks as if my whole life is a race against time . |
| 14 | I played as if my very life depended upon it . |
| 15 | I heard he was changed but my dear life , he 's an old man ! ’ |
| 16 | On the issue of pre-1935 appeasement of Mussolini over Abyssinia he quotes from L. S. Amery 's ‘ diary ’ , which is referred to in a footnote as My Political Life , vol. 3 ( 1955 ) and also refers to two other accounts of the same events in Viscount Templewood 's Nine Troubled Years , pt. 2 ( 1954 ) , and Sir Anthony Eden 's Facing the Dictators ( 1962 ) . |
| 17 | I do not mean to imply , he wrote , that nothing existed before that moment , no plans , no designs , no sketches and no notes , of course there were plans and designs , sketches and notes , how could there not be , he wrote , when my whole life has been nothing but a preparation for this beginning , not only in the sense that everyone 's life is always a preparation for every beginning in that life but in the quite specific sense that my own life has always been a preparation for this beginning , nothing but a preparation for this beginning , both consciously and unconsciously , with everything I have done as well as everything I have thought , everything I have felt as well as everything I have suffered . |