Example sentences of "come alive " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a city to get lost in , to come alive in , a city of immense contrasts , warmth and vitality . |
| 2 | Come dusk the place starts to come alive and the narrow streets behind the harbour , with it 's vast array of magnificent wood-built sailing cruisers , turn into a huge open air jamboree with everybody jostling , shopping , eating , drinking and generally having a good time . |
| 3 | And then the picture itself seemed to come alive . ’ |
| 4 | At the earliest stage it should be made to come alive for young people and teachers in the processes of education . |
| 5 | The table creaked and seemed to come alive , and the taps followed . |
| 6 | She wanted to come alive again and fall in love again ; but that was not possible , for no one but Rob MacDonald would do — and Rob was gone . |
| 7 | Only when she was undertaking solo engagements did she appear to come alive . |
| 8 | His riveting address , in which he lucidly , brilliantly demolished the moral authority of the outgoing US regime and urged his audience of ‘ young Americans ’ to come alive , could have been ( and probably was ) delivered at any point during the campaign . |
| 9 | Her long blonde hair seemed to come alive in the sunlight which gave it golden highlights . |
| 10 | The brand new year round EURO DISNEY Resort is scheduled to come alive on 12th April 1992 just across the Channel in France , 20 miles east of Paris . |
| 11 | At once that part of the map seemed to come alive ; was overlaid with a fine web of brilliant gold , the nodes of which sparkled in the overhead light . |
| 12 | John 's face seemed to come alive and his spirit escaped the prison of the photograph releasing brief images of happy times ; John dancing along the pavement , John tilting his head back to exhale smoke from a cigarette , John talking to a cuddly toy in a supermarket and making me laugh . |
| 13 | The fading light gave way in a matter of seconds to a moist , velvet blackness , as if a curtain had been drawn swiftly across the sky , and the shadows beyond the glow of the hurricane lamps immediately began to come alive with the shrill vibrations of the jungle night . |
| 14 | Inert , mute , untouchable , she seemed uncanny and prodigious to Rosa , who wanted her to protest the hectic fury all around her , to come alive and give a sign , as , below her , the volunteers hauling the lumbering shrine on their backs on poles criss-crossed and tethered grew more obstreperous and howled and the crowd pressed up and obstructed their laborious way ahead ; after three turns around the piazza they at last reached the platform in the middle , only a little distance from the Duomo they had left , and the sweat-streaked bearers put down the skewed tower on which the Madonna stood , and tumbled to their knees . |
| 15 | The threw back the bedclothes , shed her clinging nightgown and stood under a cool shower until she began to come alive . |
| 16 | as if in response , Merrill 's own face seemed to come alive , and she felt her mouth answer that smile . |
| 17 | At the last moment Wynne-Jones seemed to come alive . |
| 18 | Well just that the words go down on paper , they seem to come alive within his imagination and around the room . |
| 19 | His head came down again , and suddenly , as her whole body started to come alive , Leith found she was having to fight herself as well as him . |
| 20 | His skin , combined with the slippery texture of the soap , seemed to come alive under her hands . |
| 21 | obviously we 've got to work together on all , are you listening to me ? , on all the different parts of the body , you want them all to come alive , okay , so , this week as I say we 're gon na concentrate on sound , sound , sound , sound , you 've got to play on sound that is the painting , I mean the , the pictures do you , alright that 's fine , at the same does n't matter we 've still got to work on different things , yeah , okay ? , erm , so , as I say we 're going to make a sound machine in different groups , now to give you an example , what I what you to do is be , I 'm going to give you a situation , give , choose a profession , okay , let's say we are in hospital , now I want you each and everyone of you in this group think of the situation , think of a sound that one might hear in a hospital , everyone to themselves just think of a sound , could be a patient screaming , it could be a heart machine , it could be , er exactly , could be that , could be absolutely anything , it could sirens , it could be anything , okay , for everyone I want you to have the sound in your head okay , everyone 's got a sound in their head ? |
| 22 | The semi-final between Anatoly Karpov and Artur Yusupov has come alive following Yusupov 's win in the fifth game . |
| 23 | This city has suddenly come alive , ’ said her husband , an off-duty border guard . |
| 24 | But politics has come alive . |
| 25 | He felt he had only come alive when he started surfing . |
| 26 | He wondered whether she had come alive again so that he had had to kill her once more . |
| 27 | On trying the TL for the first time , more than one recently deafened person has said with astonishment , ‘ The world has come alive again . ’ |
| 28 | KATHLEEN MAGEE TAKES A STROLL AROUND BELFAST AND DISCOVERS THAT , LIKE MUSIC , FASHION IN THE NORTHERN CAPITAL HAS COME ALIVE . |
| 29 | The discreet grooming of the past few seasons has come alive this autumn with a splash of colour . |
| 30 | There was such stillness in him that when he moved it was like something dead had come alive again . |