Example sentences of "come [adv] to life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , take an accident like that hair in the gate , put it together with the coincidental gaze of a ghost , and it 's as if Fonda really has come back to life . |
| 2 | For this son of mine was dead and has come back to life ; he was lost and is found ( Luke 15:24 ) . |
| 3 | The father pleaded with the elder brother and tried to point out to him that it was only right to celebrate for it was as if the younger son had come back to life from the dead . |
| 4 | Politics has come back to life as well . |
| 5 | ‘ You look like a corpse that 's come back to life again . |
| 6 | She looked at the baby , also drenched in tears , and found he had come back to life . |
| 7 | While undergoing an operation his heart has stopped , but he has come back to life after having been declared dead and deposited in a coffin . |
| 8 | It was as if Lady Lavinia herself had come back to life , and sat staring at her out of the malevolence in her soul . |
| 9 | He told the doctors all about how my dad had come back to life in this grey cardigan and had told him the secrets of the universe . |
| 10 | Sat waiting for it to come back to life . |
| 11 | In particular , I was waiting for the hedgehog that made its nest at the end of our garden last autumn to come back to life . |
| 12 | IF WILLIAM CAXTON , the father of British printing , were to come back to life after 500 years in the grave , he would see a lot of changes . |
| 13 | Soon it subsides and he seems to come back to life . |
| 14 | She kept a pretty green budgerigar called Peter , who once dropped dead in his cage but came back to life when Nanny gave him a few drops of gin squeezed from a wad of cotton-wool . |
| 15 | The damp retreated down the walls , the gardens came back to life and there was fresh food in the kitchen . |
| 16 | And so he came back to life . |
| 17 | Or that girl with the Esquimau nose ? ) and not daring to spend the time she used to in study lest she be dangerously good , she now had hours and hours in which to brood and her old pains came back to life . |
| 18 | In front of the stove it soon came back to life , and then he could return it to its mother . |
| 19 | In the spring of 1962 , with the national emergency now over , the parliamentary opposition came back to life . |
| 20 | AN AILING 68-year-old Seattle woman miraculously came back to life after an emergency medical team who rushed to her home declared her dead and her cold body had been taken to a funeral home . |
| 21 | The approach of evening and release from the heat had transformed the city through which they rode , and the tree-lined streets that had been scorched and deserted on their arrival were coming rapidly to life . |
| 22 | Today the town shows some signs of coming back to life . |
| 23 | BALTIC aviation is coming back to life . |
| 24 | WITH Britain 's economy just coming back to life , its car production rose by 7.7% last month to the highest March level for 19 years . |
| 25 | He believes that he has ‘ lost something vital and positive ’ ( 146/342 ) in coming back to life , and wishes to ‘ die again' ( 104/300 ) , for he feels like a White Dwarf , or degenerate star that is very dense but not very bright . |
| 26 | He was keen to tell everyone the Great News about my dad coming back to life to expose Christianity . |
| 27 | FORMER B-17 base Deenethorpe , near Corby , Northants , is coming back to life as the home of the Deenethorpe Flying Club . |
| 28 | I 'd trained myself to have no feelings — yet suddenly I 'm coming back to life . |
| 29 | I mean its as if he 's sort of living again , you know , coming back to life . |
| 30 | However , the analytic therapist is pleased by this sign of increasing integration and hopeful that sex will come back to life as the couple move through the depression and the marriage improves . |