Example sentences of "in [adj] life [pers pn] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aloof in temperament , in private life he was pious , charitable , and of a simple way of living . |
| 2 | In private life he was very generous , and gave a large sum anonymously to St Edmund Hall , the first £10,000 characteristically arriving in a dirty used envelope . |
| 3 | In early life he was employed by Mr R S Woulfe , a Methodist merchant in household and Mr Donovan was converted and had to leave home for employment in the North of Ireland . |
| 4 | In ordinary life it is rare indeed for people to form their beliefs by a process of logical deduction from facts ascertained by a rigorous search for all available evidence and a judicious assessment of its probative value . |
| 5 | Hamilton asserted that in ordinary life it was the strong arm of the law and not the strong arm of the husband which protected women from hurt or molestation . |
| 6 | ‘ In real life we 're really pretty shite . ’ |
| 7 | Just as in real life they were assimilating a clinical attitude to human functions , many of which are taboo in Western society , their dreaming interpretations of their own sexuality were also in terms of a medical model . |
| 8 | This sort of behaviour may be cute and quirky when Tom Hanks does it in a feel-good age-swap movie , but in real life it 's pathetic , regressive , and very very sad . |
| 9 | Even if the exact number of rounds in the game is not known for certain , in real life it is often possible to make a statistical guess as to how much longer the game is likely to last . |
| 10 | In real life it is really not very likely that six people ( and six is about the right number , pushing upwards to eight and down to a minimum of three , though you have to be skilled to have that few ) will each have good reason for committing the same murder . |
| 11 | In real life it is up to the problem.solver to search around and find the factors that should be taken into consideration and the ones that can safely be left out . |
| 12 | In real life it is not unreasonable to expect that the learner may often hear things of which the meaning escapes him . |
| 13 | ‘ In real life she 's a shy little thing . |
| 14 | In real life he s a bollox left back . |
| 15 | ‘ He got annoyed when I said that though and said it was n't true , so I 'd like this time to say that although he appears to be very clever on stage and TV , in real life he is extremely stupid . ’ |
| 16 | But if anyone could relax her , it was Miguelito , if in real life he was as tender , as passionate and as exciting as the music he made . |
| 17 | In modern life it is very much harder to see our way … [ it ] has almost ceased to he a controlling conception for us . |
| 18 | Back in civilian life he was foreman for a Darlington decorating firm , Jack Stead , and the couple moved into the town 's Rockingham Street . |
| 19 | It is interesting to trace the way in which the times of meals have changed over the centuries , particularly because in everyday life it is not just the clock which tells us which part of the day we are in but the meals that we eat . |
| 20 | However , in everyday life it is not always feasible to think of hiring someone . |
| 21 | As Thurlow sums him up , ‘ in everyday life he was a small insignificant man in an ordinary suit … but take off the uniform of the city solicitor and put on the running singlet and the track shoes and the transformation was amazing ’ . |