Example sentences of "[pron] life for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I regard that day as determining the direction of my life for the next two years at least . |
| 2 | He had them exactly where every actor who ever lived wants his public , watching his every movement , letting him dictate their lives for a little moment . |
| 3 | He did n't seem to notice , and continued , his voice rising even more : ‘ I believe when people come here on vacation they come to escape the perpetual grey in their lives for a short space of time . |
| 4 | The motley band stared in awe at the figure who would be in charge of their lives for the next three months . |
| 5 | These people gave up three months of their life for an important mission . |
| 6 | Listening in their Castle Park home , his wife Virtue said Moore had altered her life for the worse . |
| 7 | All because of one silly accident , which had n't even been her fault , her life for the next long miserable eighteen months was to be ruled by a man whom she detested with all her heart . |
| 8 | ‘ Is any would-be businessman … content in forecasting his future , to figure himself as labouring all his life for a fixed salary ? |
| 9 | I imagine it perhaps starting as one , and then escalating , as Serafin waits , smiling eagerly at her pupil , and Summerchild hunts back through his life for the required circumstances , covering his retreat with bursts of fire as he goes . |
| 10 | At Sussex University , he met Gail Rebuck , who would figure largely in his life for the next twenty years . |
| 11 | We do n't want to have every last stop pulled out on our behalves in a last , heroic effort to extend our lives for a few more days or weeks or months . |
| 12 | It was like being in the adit of a mine , and I was driving into the bowels of the earth with a man who seemed hell bent on risking our lives for no apparent reason . |
| 13 | They really run this hospital , and they 'll be running your life for the next few years . ’ |