Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] a new life " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , in his attempt to lead a new life , he attributes any success he may have had in conquering lust , anger or pride to God 's grace , a very specifically Christian idea ; and this is a full fifteen months before his conversion to Christianity . |
| 2 | The business of the new configuration was different : art ‘ transferred to the praxis of life ’ — not however ‘ to integrate art into this praxis ’ but ‘ the attempt to organise a new life praxis from a basis in art ’ ( cited p. 54 ) . |
| 3 | In an attempt to build a new life for himself and his daughter , Paul Kersey takes a job managing a radio station in Chicago . |
| 4 | A WOMAN who stole thousands of pounds from a pub 's Christmas savings club has moved out of town to start a new life , a court heard yesterday . |
| 5 | They had gone out to Jamaica to start a new life . ’ |
| 6 | After years of foraging and running wild , Sadie was given one last chance to start a new life , but the learning process proved to be a long and challenging one |
| 7 | … and follow in the footsteps of the thousands of men and women who in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries left Ulster to seek a new life in America . |
| 8 | They were off to the Nile to seek a new life , |
| 9 | When he was released in September 1991 after 865 days in captivity the couple moved to Cyprus to begin a new life together . |
| 10 | Four giant cranes have been given a lift ten miles down the River Mersey to start a new life working in the Port of Liverpool . |
| 11 | In my case it was also different , for though I had done no criminal act I had by force of circumstance set sail for Koraloona to build a new life there . |
| 12 | He was going to California to start a new life , and did n't want to see any of his old friends or lovers any more . |
| 13 | More than 50,000 Vietnamese ‘ boat people ’ waste their lives in squalid , overcrowded prison-like camps in Hong Kong , almost certainly having lost their gamble to secure a new life in the West . |
| 14 | Roy Wright moved to Northampton to start a new life after the collapse of his marriage . |
| 15 | Sweethearts HAMDI ELMENSHAWY , 27 , and SHARON HENSON , 25 , of Selly Oak , Birmingham , were starting a two-month backpacking holiday to celebrate a new life . |
| 16 | In Mary Barton the working-class heroine and her husband go off to the colonies to start a new life . |
| 17 | He and Charlotte had grown tired of the undertaking business and had set off to London to start a new life — with all the money from Mr Sowerberry 's shop in their pockets . |
| 18 | Tom ran away to sea to start a new life , under a new name , in America . |
| 19 | Now Bob has been appointed Stoke Mandeville 's Independent Living Advocate … helping others with severe spinal injuries to make a new life for themselves . |
| 20 | It has been estimated that during the last forty years of the seventeenth century between 100,000 and 150,000 people crossed the Atlantic Ocean to start a new life in America . |
| 21 | Her surprise stemmed from the fact she had walked out on him two years earlier , sworn her friends to secrecy and moved hundreds of miles to make a new life for herself . |