Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] to life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , take an accident like that hair in the gate , put it together with the coincidental gaze of a ghost , and it 's as if Fonda really has come back to life . |
| 2 | For this son of mine was dead and has come back to life ; he was lost and is found ( Luke 15:24 ) . |
| 3 | The father pleaded with the elder brother and tried to point out to him that it was only right to celebrate for it was as if the younger son had come back to life from the dead . |
| 4 | Politics has come back to life as well . |
| 5 | ‘ You look like a corpse that 's come back to life again . |
| 6 | She looked at the baby , also drenched in tears , and found he had come back to life . |
| 7 | While undergoing an operation his heart has stopped , but he has come back to life after having been declared dead and deposited in a coffin . |
| 8 | It was as if Lady Lavinia herself had come back to life , and sat staring at her out of the malevolence in her soul . |
| 9 | He told the doctors all about how my dad had come back to life in this grey cardigan and had told him the secrets of the universe . |
| 10 | And these problems are not restricted only to life in Britain , the USA and the rest of the Western world . |
| 11 | She was idolised and soon settled down to life with a British family . |
| 12 | Yet sometimes , as in the English Mummers ' Play , ‘ it is the representative of the good principle that is killed by the evil , and afterwards brought back to life ’ . |
| 13 | Just such a house has been brought back to life by Timothy and Christine Easton . |
| 14 | There stood falcon-headed Horus , and bronze Osiris whom Seth brought back to life by fellation . |
| 15 | ‘ At least hotels can be rebuilt , dead people ca n't be brought back to life . ’ |
| 16 | It seems impossible to me that she can not be brought back to life , that such a person can not be brought back to normal life . |
| 17 | Working with the architect Terry Farrell , we set out to show how the delightful triangular blocks of Victorian chambers along Queen Victoria Street in the City — Mappin and Webb is the best known — could be refurbished and brought back to life . |
| 18 | Situated in the historic ‘ Boston ’ area of Enniskillen , ( nearby is the Boston-Quay from where in the 19th century paupers were ferried across the river to the workhouse ) the recently restored and refurbished buildings have been brought back to life as a thriving market place and exciting resource centre for craft and design in Fermanagh . |
| 19 | Instances of dead people brought back to life ( Matt. |
| 20 | Vic Norman ( left ) and Torquil Norman take a moment to pause and reflect on the aerodrome they have brought back to life . |
| 21 | A wild and neglected garden , lovingly brought back to life . |
| 22 | Marlborough , if brought back to life , would have found on the field of Waterloo comparatively little with which he was not already familiar . |
| 23 | Yugoslavia , as it was , can not be brought back to life now . |
| 24 | The old stone pillars were shaking as if they were being brought back to life . |
| 25 | Cardiopulmonary resuscitation ( CPR ) conjures up the image of a frenetic ( often chaotic ) and emotive scene where the dying are brought back to life . |
| 26 | It is n't really you who 's feeling this way , it 's the girl you used to be who 's been somehow resurrected — brought back to life by all the memories that surround you . |
| 27 | One guard shot during the raid on a security van in Cheltenham last year , was brought back to life by a passing nurse , according to the prosecution . |
| 28 | Within the party , the vote has brought back to life a dormant distaste for Mr Salmond and his strategy . |
| 29 | It was the end of Ramadan and the Old City , funereal for the last month , had sprung back to life with a vengeance . |
| 30 | These 14th Century tales are brought vividly to life by the latest audio-visual technology and the voices of the following celebrities : Roy Kinnear , Prunella Scales , Robert Powell , Ronald Pickup , Bernard Cribbins and Geoffrey Banks . |