Example sentences of "[verb] of [pron] [adj] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | The late Jack Kerouac , for instance , has every one of his works for sale , together with just about all the wild books written of his hard-driving life . |
| 2 | The exquisite creation they had made of their own lives blinded them to the aspirations of less fortunate men and women . |
| 3 | And we also know of his early life something more than the official biography , since , thirty years ago , his sister defected to here . |
| 4 | Little is known of his personal life and he opposed formal biography . |
| 5 | Little is known of his early life , except that he was the son of a judge 's clerk , of upper-middle class background , and that the male members of the family were engaged in either the legal or ecclesiastical professions . |
| 6 | Little is known of his early life except for his recollection that at the age of nine or ten he ‘ did so offend the Lord that He did scare and terrify me with dreadful visions ’ , and that he was greatly afflicted at that time with thoughts of the Day of Judgement . |
| 7 | Nothing is known of his early life , but it is clear that he acquired practical experience of chemistry and engineering . |
| 8 | Nothing is known of his early life except that his background was in the building trades — in 1724 he was described as a bricklayer , and later as a carpenter — but by the mid-1720s he had established two connections which brought him a place amongst the innermost circles of English Palladianism . |
| 9 | Very little is known of his early life : Matthias Koops stated that he had ‘ for several years served in different distinguished military characters , under the late Emperor of Germany , and King of Prussia ’ . |
| 10 | Little else is known of his early life . |
| 11 | Almost nothing is known of his early life . |
| 12 | , Francis ( c. 1583–1658 ) , goldsmith , MP , and regicide , was probably born in London , though nothing is known of his early life . |
| 13 | Little is known of his early life , save that he had a brother , William , went to school in Middle Street , Brighton , and , on his father 's death , went to live with Tom Box , the well-known wicket-keeper . |
| 14 | Nothing is known of his early life , but by March 1797 ‘ Mrs Bullock and Son ’ were conducting modelling and drawing lessons at their ‘ Modelling and Statuary Warehouse ’ , 29 Bull Street , Birmingham . |
| 15 | Nothing is known of his early life except that his mother died when he was only four . |
| 16 | What little is known of his early life is cloaked in melodrama and make-believe , but it appears that his family , once prosperous but fallen on hard times in Lear 's early years , sold up and went their separate ways . |
| 17 | Trent had come out of hospital after the ambush in Ireland with nothing left of his old life . |
| 18 | In the glimpses I had of her personal life , one feature always came through . |
| 19 | Apparently you 've repented of your wicked life . ’ |
| 20 | The objective has been to indicate the value of appreciating the expressive order : the understandings people have of their own lives , their attempts to maintain self-esteem and the respect of others in the context of processes and decisions far removed from their understanding or influence . |
| 21 | Isabelle says part of the reason for her previous reluctance to speak of their personal life is the rough handling they experienced at the hands of the French press , with their sarcastic digs at Eric 's love of painting and poetry . |