Example sentences of "of [pron] [adj] life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps because the company in which I have spent most of my industrial life is scientifically based , we have a passion for perfection . |
| 2 | I knew nothing about the realities of proper soldiering , and to counterbalance the tedium and boredom of my small-time life , I surrounded the idea of the French Foreign Legion with a cocoon of glamour that it did n't possess . |
| 3 | What would my father and mother say , and was n't it time I took upon myself the responsibility of my spiritual life at that time held in proxy by my godparents . |
| 4 | But 40%–60% of every character is one 's self and the point is that the fiction would be a truer picture of my spiritual life than my own life . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ Having become heartily sick of my private life myself , I could hardly expect others to take a more charitable view . ’ |
| 6 | Because we made love , because I 'm physically attracted to you , it does n't mean that I owe you an involved explanation of my private life . ’ |
| 7 | Riccardo , a veteran of 238 races , said afterwards : ‘ That 's the luckiest escape of my entire life . ’ |
| 8 | Instead , I 'd found something unlooked for that had changed the course of my entire life . |
| 9 | When I reflect upon the nature of my experiential life , my ‘ inner ’ life if you will , I become aware of the presence of structure . |
| 10 | This obsession — and one can , I think , rightly call it that — involved me in probably the most embarrassing event of my professional life . |
| 11 | ‘ When it works , it 'll be nothing to be ashamed of It 's what I 've been working towards for most of my professional life , ’ the doctor said defensively . |
| 12 | I spend most of my professional life in similar environments . |
| 13 | And I explained to them it 's because having been unemployed most of my professional life that I 've always been short of money and that 's what 's led me to work on very cheap materials . |
| 14 | In those few months my brain had become saturated with the things of my new life — even my mouth was full of RAF slang and jargon . |
| 15 | It was impressed upon me how terribly important the ‘ Scholarship ’ was , and how its result would determine the whole of my future life . |
| 16 | This uninvited , almost uncontrollable , welling of memory is like finding a hard splinter in the soft , flabby flesh of my real life . |
| 17 | It was a bulky volume to carry around and my RAF friends used to rib me about my " vest pocket edition " , but I had resolved to keep reading it in spare moments to remind me of my real life . |
| 18 | For 22 years of my married life I maintained these two old people . ’ |
| 19 | When I got home I picked up the threads of my ordinary life again very quickly — you might say I snatched them up , and plunged into a round of work and social life deliberately intended to give me as few idle moments as possible . |
| 20 | Introspection of my inner life and behaviour reveals structure . |
| 21 | With every light year I redeem a year of my lost life . ’ |
| 22 | How on earth I came through all those perils unscathed , unarrested , is one of the miracles of my early life . |
| 23 | Fifteen years or so after these events of my early life in secondary school it is hard to remember now how important all these things were . |
| 24 | It has been an evocative experience reading these articles , rolling back the years to what was then the greatest adventure of my young life , and these experiences are just as vivid today . |
| 25 | Indeed , I felt a little frightened of the prospect of being torn from there , torn like ivy from a solid wall that had borne me through more than three years of my short life . |
| 26 | He later declared that his years in Switzerland were " the most important of my whole life … |
| 27 | because I 'll tell you what , I came off cold turkey , and I had the worst three days of my whole life . |
| 28 | Through my mind there reverberated the words from Portrait of a Lady , ‘ Memories of my dead life , and Paris in the Spring ’ , the meaning of which every lover of Paris can echo , even if he had no dead life in either George Moore 's or Eliot 's sense , or even if his most memorable visit to Paris took place , as mine did , at another season . |
| 29 | I slipped from my own chair without a word , kicked away the detritus of my previous life which was posing as champagne foil , and followed him to the Gents . |
| 30 | As I now personally from one of my previous lives in nineteen eighty-two , when I became the first Director of the newly independent National Federation of Community Organisations . |