Example sentences of "own life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty-nine of the prisoners have already died , Pilot Mohammed El Shamey has lost his mind , one has taken his own life . |
| 2 | It seems reasonable to think that The Facts is imagined , and that it could promote a benevolent view of the literal or faithful — as opposed to the fantastically transgressive — imagination , which may or may not , in any given case , be directly concerned with the facts of the author 's own life . |
| 3 | Debbie , the teenage daughter of the writer Henry , talks with her father about his work and about her own life . |
| 4 | I do not mean to imply , he wrote , that nothing existed before that moment , no plans , no designs , no sketches and no notes , of course there were plans and designs , sketches and notes , how could there not be , he wrote , when my whole life has been nothing but a preparation for this beginning , not only in the sense that everyone 's life is always a preparation for every beginning in that life but in the quite specific sense that my own life has always been a preparation for this beginning , nothing but a preparation for this beginning , both consciously and unconsciously , with everything I have done as well as everything I have thought , everything I have felt as well as everything I have suffered . |
| 5 | In my own case , he wrote , and I can speak only for myself , in my own case and in my own life there have been very few genuine beginnings , only three or perhaps four . |
| 6 | But his work is always marked by elements of his own life , culminating in his final film , JUKTKI TAKKO AR GAPPO , which is virtually a self-portrait , depicting his own problems with alcoholism . |
| 7 | Sort out your own life . |
| 8 | ‘ Carry on with your own life and forget about them . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ And I 'll mess up my own life if I want to , that 's not your problem . |
| 10 | Saad had taken his own life the night the news had gone round that he 'd been caught sleeping with a travelling shepherd . |
| 11 | In hearing that word we recognise yet more astounding things that God does — like summoning us to share in the mystery of his own life . |
| 12 | In the long view he thought that his father 's unbending moral conviction was important in his own life . |
| 13 | Such confusions may draw , too , on Eliot 's fears about the barrenness of his own life and about losing his own creativity . |
| 14 | Locked in a marriage with a wife who showed increasing signs of mental instability and whose health constantly brought her to the point of death , exhausted in his work and fearing for his own life and sanity , Eliot 's view of relations between the sexes is at its bleakest , as is shown not least in the epigraphs , which were originally further universalized by including ( in the draft synopsis ) , |
| 15 | ‘ Journey of the Magi ’ , written in 1927 , contains not only material quoted in Eliot 's 1926 survey , ‘ Lancelot Andrewes ’ , and recollections from Eliot 's own life ( some of which he catalogued when reminiscing in The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism ) . |
| 16 | In Eliot 's own life such an idea seems to have been associated particularly with artistic movements of the big cities . |
| 17 | This is in keeping with the conclusion of Eliot 's own life . |
| 18 | The three major cinematic events in my life have functioned as harbingers to major changes in my own life , after which things were never quite the same . |
| 19 | This meant that I could n't lead my own life at all ; when I complained about this to my husband he laughed it off . |
| 20 | A few like Hughie Gallacher , the marvellous centre-forward for Newcastle and Scotland in the 1920s , could never adjust to the sudden loss of fame and took their own life . |
| 21 | I 've got my own life to lead . ’ |
| 22 | To have a week away , and with Fräulein Silber … even the thought of Omi faded as she thought of it ; after all , it would only be for one week , pushing away the traitorous thought that one week for herself was quite different from a week in Omi 's life , and , treachery giving way to treason , she did have her own life to lead ; and so she said , firmly , ‘ It will be all right , Fräulein . |
| 23 | How does a son live his own life in the shadow of an overpowering father who is also a worldwide star ? |
| 24 | But Brynner was a star as well as a powerful personality and Rock 's own life tells of the effect that had . |
| 25 | Stepson of a rabbi and product of a broken home , Laszlo was brought up in an orphanage , and it is clear that from a very early age this intense , obstinate man sought not only to bring order to his own life but to control to an unprecedented degree the environment of his future family . |
| 26 | This might seem more than enough for one life , but in the Ravensbruck concentration camp to which she was now sent she met the woman with whom she formed the other crucial relationship of her life , with Milena Jesenska , whose own life experience drew Margarete intensely , if vicariously , into another of the crucial Central European milieux of that period — the Prager Kreis of Willy Haas , Max Brod and Kafka , whose lover , and early translator , Milena was . |
| 27 | ‘ Prepare to sacrifice a lot of your own life , ’ is Val 's advice to would-be rugby wives . |
| 28 | The land someone cultivates is necessarily his : this is simply a special case of the fact that each man unquestionably has a right to his own life and labour , and so has the right to the products of that labour . |
| 29 | Denice shows us her own life line , which goes about halfway up her arm . |
| 30 | That was one of the reasons he liked living out at Little Knoll , so he could have his own life , his own place that none of them at school knew about . |