Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to life [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sandeep , used only to life in a Bombay high-rise , is hypnotised by the daily rituals going on around him — his aunt rubbing oil into her black hair , his uncle retiring to the lavatory with an ashtray , a newspaper and a pair of reading glasses . |
| 2 | Nicki Ware is looking forward to life without glasses . |
| 3 | Nicki Ware is looking forward to life without glasses . |
| 4 | She was not looking forward to life at her uncle 's house . |
| 5 | Successful and loving couple Jessie and Mark are looking forward to life in their new love-nest . |
| 6 | I wrote to the effect that I did indeed look forward to life with him , and that my guidelines for living were the same as his . |
| 7 | And these problems are not restricted only to life in Britain , the USA and the rest of the Western world . |
| 8 | These 14th Century tales are brought vividly to life by the latest audio-visual technology and the voices of the following celebrities : Roy Kinnear , Prunella Scales , Robert Powell , Ronald Pickup , Bernard Cribbins and Geoffrey Banks . |
| 9 | All are lowland species whose ancestors probably inhabited lowland forests and steppe ; curiously absent from the polar tundra are montane mammals of the subpolar fringe , for example Dall ( Figure 3.14 ) and snow sheep , marmots , pikas , and upland ( Siberian and red-backed ) voles , which might have been expected to take readily to life on the low tundra ( Chernov , 1985 ) . |
| 10 | With articulated limbs and facial expressions which even allow the effigy to weep tears and gnash its teeth , it springs fully to life before the hypnotized community , dragging the priest behind it , speaking recognizably in the voices of the recently as well as more distantly departed . |
| 11 | They had returned noisily to life after the journey , consoled by spreading the contents of their suitcases , which always looked to her like carefully collected rubbish , old dresses bought from barrows , ratty bits of fur , crumpled and disorderly history notes , about their new quarters . |