Example sentences of "after a lifetime " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had managed to convince myself that , after a lifetime of teaching at university level , this was all going to be painfully easy . |
| 2 | Old people in lavender and tweed sitting against the neat hedges , and roses tumbling along veined and curled beams , timber drydocked after a lifetime at sea . |
| 3 | Legend is an overworked term in jazz : it can describe a figure like Eubie Blake , who died at 100 after a lifetime 's achievement , or those who died young , their promise unfulfilled , like everyone from Jimmy Blanton to Charlie Parker . |
| 4 | After a lifetime and a zillion points , the inconceivable happened : Dusty notched up a record and retired to his farm . |
| 5 | After a lifetime of analysing herself and other people , she gave up . |
| 6 | The word had already got around that Pat Muldoon had decided to take retirement in his old familiar surroundings , after a lifetime s dedicated service to the great American Corporation . |
| 7 | After a lifetime in politics he knows all about the rough and tumble of public life . |
| 8 | Even after a lifetime in Hollywood , Lorna could not look comfortably on squalor . |
| 9 | After a lifetime of travelling , the Scottish novelist finally settled in Western Samoa in 1890 , four years before his death . |
| 10 | Indulging in passive leisure activities such as reading and listening to the radio cost nothing and can seem a luxury after a lifetime of sticking to a working schedule . |
| 11 | After a lifetime of hanging around in pubs , he will spend a month hanging around the walls of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in this collection of original artwork by Harry Venning . |
| 12 | It is hard , after a lifetime of sharing disappointments and problems with a parent , to find that they are no longer capable of sustaining conversation , that their memory is failing or that they have little interest in things outside their own immediate situation . |
| 13 | After a lifetime of university teaching I have ceased to believe that the desire to sit at the feet of many masters is a powerful motive with the majority of wandering scholars . |
| 14 | Urim , ‘ the scattered one ’ , as the locals dub him , has arrived at this ‘ still centre ’ after a lifetime of successive exiles , each spawning a new name , a new self . |
| 15 | Two Jewish daughters left alone with babysitters after a lifetime of copious kisses is psychic pain enough — but when mother has the gall to start a sex life then it 's time to lie down on an analyst 's couch . |
| 16 | WHAT do post-Empire Maharajahs do when they are down on their luck after a lifetime of strutting around India showing off their public school educations ? |
| 17 | After a lifetime in the tropics he returned to England and died aged 59 in Middlesex . |
| 18 | The saddest irony of Jim Henson 's death was that , after a lifetime of entertaining youngsters , he died from a rare reaction to the streptococcus virus that normally attacks children in the form of tonsillitis . |
| 19 | Jean had looked forward to a comfortable retirement after a lifetime of work . |
| 20 | He had his little ancestral secrets , as follows : his great-grandfather , also a William , had been buried as an 80-year-old pauper in Wylye in 1806 after a lifetime spent as a humble shepherd , and his own father , James , was to die in St Pancras Workhouse in 1862 at the end of a lively career which had included being an agricultural labourer , a french polisher , a clothes salesman , a catsmeat dealer — and a pauper . |
| 21 | He confessed that he had finally come to terms with the fact that he was a homosexual , after a lifetime of denying it to himself . |
| 22 | Mrs Smart , 41 , hit the headlines in TODAY when , after a lifetime of supporting the Conservatives , high interest rates and falling orders destroyed two generations of hard work . |
| 23 | Mrs Smart , 41 , hit the headlines in TODAY when , describing herself as ‘ Absolutely Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells ’ , she blamed the Tories of betrayal after a lifetime of her support . |
| 24 | After a lifetime of distorted thinking , it is not easy to change your prejudices . |
| 25 | Bunny loves cooking ( she is trained to cordon bleu standard ) and after a lifetime 's experience of entertaining , cooking for her guests presents no problem . |
| 26 | I get all 'eavy in 'ere when I fink 'ow that ole goat Galloway treated 'im after a lifetime of work fer 'im , ’ Nellie said , putting her clenched fist up to her chest . |
| 27 | A more contemporary example is the man who finally retires after a lifetime of work , with no new goals or plans . |
| 28 | A death-bed repentance and confession might gain him entrance into heaven ; it might save his soul , but it could not save his reputation after a lifetime of dishonour . |
| 29 | How do you start to notice people after a lifetime of indifference ? |
| 30 | Things changed , he knew that now , after a lifetime of denying it , but certain things — intrinsic things — remained a constant , for all men at all times . |