Example sentences of "cripple for life " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fight ensued which left one man dead , one crippled for life and several with lasting scars . |
| 2 | A brilliant student 's seven-year battle for compensation after being crippled for life , has finally come to an end with a record award of £1.2 million . |
| 3 | If you are in your forties you can also flash your mind back to those dramatic posters : ‘ Diphtheria is deadly — protect your child by immunization ’ , and probably recall some child at your school who contracted polio and was crippled for life . |
| 4 | But the cruellest experiences the victim 's pain however great as less than his own enhancement of power however small , so that the suffering of a victim who is being crippled for life may be deliberately empathized by the torturer , but as less than his own titillation , which he may have forgotten by the time he goes home to lunch . |
| 5 | ‘ My accident left my whole family crippled for life ’ |
| 6 | ‘ And that was me , crippled for life , ’ he used to say , ‘ knee-capped by a Yankee flying bog . ’ |
| 7 | His back is broken , and , barring a miracle , he 's crippled for life . |