Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] to life " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the old kapellmeister managed to cling on to life for another couple of years , by which time Mozart was himself dead . |
| 2 | Sat waiting for it to come back to life . |
| 3 | In particular , I was waiting for the hedgehog that made its nest at the end of our garden last autumn to come back to life . |
| 4 | IF WILLIAM CAXTON , the father of British printing , were to come back to life after 500 years in the grave , he would see a lot of changes . |
| 5 | Soon it subsides and he seems to come back to life . |
| 6 | I know nothing of the circumstances of his illness , but he was dying angrily and his procrastinations could be sufficiently explained by a need to hold on to life , to defer events into the future . |
| 7 | This thought combines the antihero wanting to want and Svidrigailov trying sex , balloon-travel , good works even , in his struggle to latch on to life . |
| 8 | All are lowland species whose ancestors probably inhabited lowland forests and steppe ; curiously absent from the polar tundra are montane mammals of the subpolar fringe , for example Dall ( Figure 3.14 ) and snow sheep , marmots , pikas , and upland ( Siberian and red-backed ) voles , which might have been expected to take readily to life on the low tundra ( Chernov , 1985 ) . |
| 9 | Eternity as the sound of endless babble : one could of course imagine worse things , but the idea of hearing women 's voices forever , continuously , without end , gave her sufficient incentive to cling seriously to life and to do everything in her power to keep death as far away as possible . |
| 10 | It is I , your God , coming to bring back to life the child |