Example sentences of "[vb pp] her [adj] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | She , on the other hand , having finally regained her own life and independence after years of child-rearing , wanted to turn her attention to her own needs . |
| 2 | Jane had rationalised her past life : she was a loner ; she was better alone . |
| 3 | Freud might have said her emotional life was frozen , like the Alps . |
| 4 | She 's got her own life to lead , you know . ’ |
| 5 | She says it 's affected her whole life . |
| 6 | Dolle had spent her entire life obsessed with but ill-used by men . |
| 7 | After she died the heart-broken husband gave Woodford Lodge , Northamptonshire , where Harriett had spent her married life , to his son by his first wife , and went to live with Wellington . |
| 8 | Gloria ( Perez ) , his girlfriend , wins a lot of money on a gameshow she 's spent her whole life practising for , but Billy bets it all on a basketball game . |
| 9 | She stood there a moment , looking out across the pre-dawn darkness of the spaceport , barely conscious of the passengers pushing by , knowing that this was probably the last view she would ever have of City Europe — the City in which she had spent her whole life . |
| 10 | Mother Theresa has spent her whole life looking after the poor and sick children and babies on the streets of Calcutta . |
| 11 | There is no way Dona could have left her married life and children behind to sail the seas with pirate lover . |
| 12 | Had it not been for her chance meeting with Estabrook — who saw through her tumbling , distracted manner to the woman she was — she might well have taken her own life . |
| 13 | If Marek was right , Tatyana had taken her own life less as a result of the news of the murder Blanche had brought , than of her son 's dreadful confession . |
| 14 | He remembered the pretty village girl — he had not destroyed her young life . |
| 15 | The play takes place in the Sussex home of Mrs St Maugham , an encrusted relic of Edwardian values who has lived her long life ‘ without affection ’ . |
| 16 | Perhaps the woman had already met Jesus previously , had changed her immoral life , in so doing had realised that her sins had been forgiven and was now showing gratitude for this . |