Example sentences of "came [adv] to life " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The damp retreated down the walls , the gardens came back to life and there was fresh food in the kitchen . |
| 3 | And so he came back to life . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In front of the stove it soon came back to life , and then he could return it to its mother . |
| 6 | In the spring of 1962 , with the national emergency now over , the parliamentary opposition came back to life . |
| 7 | 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 . |