Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [adj] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Some day , perhaps , ’ she said , ‘ but at the moment I 'm far too busy enjoying my single life . ’ |
| 2 | Keeping my private life from my public one can be tricky . |
| 3 | He has been so successful at keeping his private life private that it took six months for the world 's gossip columns to find out that he married his long-term girlfriend Phoebe Cates , star of the Gremlins films . |
| 4 | Thoughts of hell flames are blighting your young life . |
| 5 | This change can not take place without the involvement of the people themselves and , therefore , they must be moved from their traditional passivity towards an active role in shaping their own lives . |
| 6 | They are active shoppers and visibly social , using their social life to forward their careers . |
| 7 | I was deeply in love with Jean-Claude , and the difference between how I felt towards him and how I felt towards Helmut convinced me that it would have been dis-honest , even distasteful , to go on living my married life . |
| 8 | To hell with saving my own life and my own property . ’ |
| 9 | Mary says now : ‘ Accessing my past lives has been of great benefit and I 'm sure that if I 'd gone to an ordinary therapist , nothing would have been sorted out . ’ |
| 10 | The argument that there is a thing called capitalist society which renders its population entirely pathological and dehumanized , with the exception of certain theorists who , although inevitably living their private lives in accordance with the tenets of this delusion , are able in their abstracted social theory to rise above , criticize and provide the only alternative model for society , is somewhat suspicious . |
| 11 | There are many parents in this position who are working , and living their usual lives despite the uncertainty of the future . |
| 12 | Those scavengers living their entire lives in those caverns underneath Kefalov were merely an extreme example of segmented vision — their whole cosmos reduced to a few cubic kilometres of debris . |
| 13 | She thought again of Steinmark and his lonely miserable life , and of the single women , and there were many in Berlin , living their lonely lives in bare rooms across the city … . |
| 14 | Poor old Fergie will have to start living her own life . |
| 15 | Her autobiography , ‘ Growing Pains ’ , followed , detailing her early life in Victoria , her art studies in San Francisco , London and Paris , her love of the Canadian forests and the Haida Indians . |
| 16 | In the early days at least , being your own boss means sacrificing your social life , forgoing a salary and traipsing out in the rain to post your own letters . |
| 17 | Mr Moore , 51 , a former West Ham player , said : ‘ Fortunately I have been able to continue leading my normal life and hope to continue doing so . |
| 18 | In describing her daily life every woman interviewed outlined the kind of standards she thought it important to stick to in housework , and the type of routine she used to achieve this end . |
| 19 | Marx sees , rather , a tension or contradiction between the principle of democracy — the full participation of all members of society in regulating their communal life — and the limited , even distorted form which democracy assumes in a class society in which the bourgeoisie is dominant . |
| 20 | two halves apart leading their different lives . |
| 21 | Sometimes the baby may be cared for mainly by its grandmother , so that its young mother can carry on leading her teenage life . |
| 22 | ( e ) She appeared to her father to be disorientated and , according to the original evidence of Dr. F. , to be ‘ drowsy , detached and not fully compos mentis. ’ ( f ) The matrimonial history of father and mother suggests that Miss T. 's mother is a deeply committed Jehovah 's Witness , who would regard her daughter 's eternal salvation as far more important , and more in her daughter 's best interests , than lengthening her terrestrial life span . |
| 23 | He could have given us a picture of Halling in the 16th century , but we will come to that later when investigating his own life here at Halling . |
| 24 | Meanwhile the man of course , is leading his married life and is hardly affected at all . |
| 25 | While the woman could be suffering from any number of complications , the man will be leading his normal life . |
| 26 | Their intimate conversations were usually by phone — and late at night , while Diana was away from Highgrove , and Camilla 's brigadier husband , Andrew , 52 was leading his largely-separate life in London and Aldershot , Hants . |
| 27 | Gilbey , who is involved with Formula One 's Team Lotus , said he was leading his own life and was not involved in the future plans of the princess . |
| 28 | I 've no intention of sharing my private life with you or anyone else who works with IMP . ’ |
| 29 | At the war 's end , charity assembled to comfort her for a brief moment and whilst wishing her long life , nevertheless dispersed and never reassembled . |
| 30 | The therapist also raised the problem of Liz 's social isolation , and together they explored ways of re-establishing her social life . |