Example sentences of "to come to life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Levi 's paints actually manage to come to life as human beings in The Wrench , a less fanciful book which nevertheless claims that ‘ paints resemble us more than they do bricks . |
| 2 | As the coaches slip quietly through the tolls on the Severn Bridge , the Royal Military Academy itself is beginning to come to life . |
| 3 | Among the parties that are soon to come to life the Socialists , National Democrats and the Christian Democrats will figure strongly . |
| 4 | Franca observed sadly , but without surprise , that her strange feeling of love for Patrick had waned and finally abated as he continued steadily to come to life . |
| 5 | There have been so few reading problems in the whole hundred-and-odd pages that the story has been free to come to life , you can see it all , enjoy it all : ‘ Dear Miss Blyton , I think your stories are really exciting ! ’ |
| 6 | My impression of Rangoon in those first days was that it was only just beginning to come to life again , with everyone rather hopeless about the difficulties involved . |
| 7 | Tommy 's face seemed to come to life . |
| 8 | Yet with all this incidental detail , the central story of J89 obstinately fails to come to life . |
| 9 | In the shade beneath the trees he saw that the " massacred " Annamite coolies were beginning to come to life ; they untangled themselves from one another with painful slowness and staggered to their feet . |
| 10 | Look on the funny side ; I mean , supposing , just for a sec , we pretend that , somehow or other , the little cow hat actually managed to come to life . |
| 11 | And then , as though it had been waiting there to be born , a plan had begun to come to life in her mind . |
| 12 | He 'd have expected her to wait hungrily for his kissess and his caresses , to come to life when he whispered her name … |