Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] to life " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE 88OPEN RISC SUPPORTERS CLUB LOOKS TO LIFE AFTER THE MOTOROLA 88000 |
| 2 | The cartoon brings to life the humour of these famous characters . |
| 3 | In the evening after a buffet-style meal washed down with free wine , Drago 's Starlight Bar comes to life with live music and cabaret entertainment . |
| 4 | The point brings to life the contrast between explaining and understanding . |
| 5 | The name of the house means , literally , water running over stones , and a moment 's quietude brings to life the sound of many waterfalls tumbling all around the 800-acre property . |
| 6 | Jewellery Quarter Discovery Centre — A ‘ time capsule ’ jewellery works little changed since 1914 where traditional skills are demonstrated and the history of the Quarter comes to life . |
| 7 | Metal detectors designed especially for the professional and hobbyist markets represent just a tiny fraction of the Garrett electronics empire , but it is in this latter sphere that the Garrett name comes to life . |
| 8 | ‘ At the end of the day the ability to be able to bring paper plans to life in the garden gives me a lot of job satisfaction . ’ |
| 9 | By night , the Plaka District comes to life with its wealth of shops and restaurants to tempt passers-by , as the warm night air fills with the aroma of charcoal-grilled meats and the rhythm of bouzouki music . |
| 10 | Set in Windsor Central Station , the Great Western Railway 's Royal Station , the exhibition brings to life the pomp and pageantry of these historic events using artefacts , film and Madame Tussaud 's waxworks . |
| 11 | Today this forgotten rural haven comes to life again in several delightful ways . |
| 12 | Top Right — The past comes to life |
| 13 | Northampton 's past comes to life in the Central Museum and Art Gallery on Guildhall Road . |
| 14 | Gardiner usefully quotes or paraphrases the lively testimony of many sitters and visitors from a wide variety of sources and it is at these moments that the artist at his most affectionate , considerate , perceptive and even gently self-deprecating comes to life . |
| 15 | Framed : 200 years of history comes to life in a story of theatrical fantasy |
| 16 | But camp comes to life around that recognition ; it is situated at the point of emergence of the artificial from the real , culture from nature — or rather when and where the real collapses into artifice , nature into culture ; camp restores vitality to artifice , and vice versa , deriving the artificial from , and feeding it back into or as , the real . |
| 17 | The production is cleverly controlled by Gerardine McDermottroe 's understated direction , and the tone and pace of the 40 minute monologue are skilfully animated to prevent it ever becoming tedious … the poetic torrent of Frank McGuinness ' text comes to life with a terrifying and portentous symbolism for a rivetting piece of drama . |
| 18 | But just as the housing market quivers to life , along comes a new threat to house prices and another axe for the mortgage lenders to grind . |
| 19 | The first programme , updated for 1990 , shows the scope of our yacht holidays ; the next section brings to life our range of Windsurf and Dinghy holidays . |
| 20 | It begins with an attempted rape and a murder , contains scenes of spine-chilling horror when the murder victim 's marble effigy comes to life in the graveyard and then accepts its murderer 's invitation to supper , and ends with the unrepentant libertine being dragged down to hell by demons . |