Example sentences of "of [pos pn] life [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And again , elsewhere , she writes : ‘ The rest of my life stretches out as an emptiness before me . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It 's the third stage of my life to get on with . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I did n't feel like spending the rest of my life waiting around for the parts David Niven turned down , ’ was how he expressed it . |
| 4 | When they complain about ‘ stress ’ they are not saying they want to spend the rest of their lives lazing about in the sun being brought rum bamboozles on a silver tray ( though the idea has its appeal ) . |
| 5 | Delighted to be helpful , the white cells rub their genes together in glee , and for the rest of their lives curl up in their DNA sleeping bags . |
| 6 | There they have been working with individual patients who , for one reason or another , spend most of their lives sitting down — some of them in wheelchairs , unable to walk at all . |
| 7 | She has become a parody of herself , doomed to spend the rest of her life acting out her own mythical qualities . |
| 8 | The lettering on the bag looks too garish for the occasion , but at least wo n't get out of the car and find the remnants of her life spilling out into the gutter . |
| 9 | The author was Mary Shelley , wife of the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley , but very little of her life comes back to memory . |
| 10 | She discarded the trouser suit for a set of underwear in palest pink , and Claudia seethed at having the most wonderful moments of her life dismissed in so summary a fashion . |
| 11 | He spent the rest of his life living out that experience . |
| 12 | Jess the collie was a laid-back sort of hound who spent most of his life stretched out on a fireside rug in his large Surrey home . |
| 13 | So what has brought the best known boxer on the unofficial circuit , the best known bouncer in town , the man who has inspired film scripts and tall tales in the snooker halls , once one of the six people in Britain said to be able to bench-press 500 pounds , what has brought him to the dock in front of Judge Richard Lowry and to the possibility of spending the rest of his life locked up with robbers and rapists ? |
| 14 | Any narrative of his life develops along several parallel routes . |
| 15 | You ca n't get it back , no matter what else happens in your life that that part is gone , so a part of your life dies along with his . |
| 16 | The Milton Keynes road system is so incomprehensible that you would be forced to spend the rest of your life driving round and round the ring road with a car full of nicked gear … |
| 17 | Practising the Alexander Technique is a slow process of examining every area of our lives to find out what it is that is going wrong . |