Example sentences of "[prep] his [adj] life [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For four years of his early life he lived at the court of King Philip II , to whom he did feudal homage in 1214 . |
| 2 | Towards the end of his long life he married for the second time . |
| 3 | His financial position was secure for the first time , and for the last twenty years of his long life he was able to devote himself to his work of creating a Serbian literary language and bringing to the notice of his countrymen and the world the riches of the Serbian oral tradition . |
| 4 | To the very end of his long life he continued to be consulted about these types of issues , and lived to be present at the Pan Anglican Congress of 1908 , at which so many of his ideals were acclaimed . |
| 5 | ‘ Officially he does , General , but for the purposes of his private life he has a small apartment , a flat as the English call it . |
| 6 | Quite apart from his business acumen ( by the end of his commercial life he was the head of the largest clothing manufacturers — which his father had acquired earlier , originally named Freedmans — in the British dominions , as well as chairman or president of the most important trade bodies related to that industry ) he held very senior positions in such organisations as the Baron de Hirsch Institute , the Montreal Reform Club , the Montefiore Club , the Montreal Insurance Co , the Jewish Public Library , the Hebrew Educational Institute , the Canadian Jewish Committee for the Relief of War Sufferers in Europe , the Executive of the Canadian Jewish Congress , the Canadian Colonisation Committee , the Zion Athletic Club , the Zionist Organisation of Canada , and many , many more . |
| 7 | That in and under the bread and wine , as Calvin put it , set apart from common use to this holy use to represent his body and blood , he feeds us with his very life I in you and you in me , I the vine and you the branches . |
| 8 | Something in his private life we know nothing about . ’ |
| 9 | In his early life he was a keen explorer and traveller , and his photographs of life in Meiji Japan are of historical interest . |
| 10 | In his later life he became for a few months nearly as famous as Ramsey , though in a different context . |
| 11 | In his later life he wrestled , unsuccessfully , with the idea of a united field theory , and clashed with Niels Bohr over the scope and meaning of quantum mechanics . |
| 12 | He says unless you know what goes on in his daily life you do n't realise what he goes through . |
| 13 | In his own life it had always been he who was the supplicant , telephoning Diana from call boxes on his rounds in the hope of closing some nagging gap of intimacy left at breakfast , and always having to hide the agony of dread that her casualness could cause him for fear of the danger of irritating her . |