Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] to life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian Evans first came to the Palace in September 1974 as The Eagles sought to adjust to life in the 3rd Division , after plummeting straight through Division Two in 1973–74 , and he quickly established himself as a favourite among the fans at Selhurst Park with his wholehearted displays at the centre of our defence . |
| 2 | Tommy 's face seemed to come to life . |
| 3 | A bell on the wall , one of a row on curved metal springs above black glass plates announcing , in gold letters , the rooms they belonged to , sprang jangling to life . |
| 4 | In the Ordovician and Silurian periods they became adapted to life in most marine environments , but were particularly numerous in shallow water habitats , in some cases forming whole banks , as mussels do today . |
| 5 | Instead of being condemned to death he felt condemned to life , like these worker-convicts in the rain and cold and mud of a no-man 's land . |
| 6 | Throughout his chaotic years in Paris he continued to go to life classes , but he could not afford the five francs an hour for a model and so rarely had a chance to paint the nude , except for his girl-friends , and that , as he was beginning to realize , was expensive too . |
| 7 | Ever since he was a student in Florence and Venice , Modigliani had studied the female form repeatedly and passionately and when he came to Paris he continued to go to life classes . |
| 8 | The man had come to life very considerably in discussing his job and a formidable personality was emerging . |
| 9 | With her little black broom in her hand , Angela danced gaily out of the tent , and she looked just as if the Gnome on her Brownie uniform had come to life ! |
| 10 | Best of all was Peter Royston 's eight-minute dance which told all-you-can-remember from Disney 's film — it was as if the cartoon had come to life as there she was , on points , bluebird balanced on her finger … |
| 11 | Soap opera had come to life within touching distance . |
| 12 | All around them the world had come to life . |
| 13 | The girl had come to life , was leaning forward , her trembling hand tight on Alice 's forearm . |
| 14 | I had said that we should go to Egypt for this , not believing that the occasion would ever really arise ; that I should be married to Syl and taken to the country in which I had come to life and lost it . |
| 15 | He saw , as though some wall painting had come to life before his eyes , the glitter of steel and the minute clusters of rainbow colours just moving over the crest of one rise , to descend into the next bowl ; and riding towards them , negligently like men out hawking , he saw a smaller group , no more than half a dozen mounted men , who had been until this moment hidden from them by the lie of the land . |
| 16 | Once stomachs had settled to life at sea their owners got down to the serious work of filling them with the gargantuan meals offered . |
| 17 | He had taken to life at Almsmead with all the enthusiasms she had hoped for . |