Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun sg] of my life " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish to see the path of my life . |
| 2 | So when he followed up by pointing us towards the touchline , I got the shock of my life . |
| 3 | I got the shock of my life when you opened the front door ; could n't you tell ? ’ |
| 4 | I 'm trying to find the meaning of my life . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I would not have the slightest objection to living the rest of my life here , ’ said Jose Rizal . |
| 6 | ‘ Who says I am writing the story of my life ? |
| 7 | We were fortunate in having an outdoor swimming-pool , and it was there that I learned to swim , and have continued to enjoy swimming the rest of my life . |
| 8 | Got the shock of my life ! |
| 9 | Now we 're going around to see the boy 's we 've got the love of my life . |
| 10 | I lay there , head buried in my arms , knowing that Lollo was dead : I would spend the rest of my life cursing myself and Flupper . |
| 11 | I 'll spend the rest of my life knowing that I was willingly used by a man who did n't love me . |
| 12 | Yesterday Steve declared : ‘ I had enough bad luck in one day to last the rest of my life . |
| 13 | I did not want to share the rest of my life with a ghost . |
| 14 | ‘ One day a man knocked on my door , and asked to be painted in a nearby churchyard , ‘ to symbolise the desolation of my life ’ , he said . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm having the time of my life . ’ |
| 16 | I really am having the time of my life . |
| 17 | If Yggdrasil stuck a terminal in , I would have spent the rest of my life floating in a tank living out a Late , Late Show rerun . |
| 18 | Essentially that 's how I 've spent the rest of my life , to date . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm saying I 'm not spending the rest of my life in a Salvation Army hostel or a DHSS hotel or any other kind of hostel . |
| 20 | ‘ I did n't feel like spending the rest of my life waiting around for the parts David Niven turned down , ’ was how he expressed it . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm not going to be spending the rest of my life in Chollerton , Mummy . ’ |
| 22 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 23 | I regard that day as determining the direction of my life for the next two years at least . |
| 24 | ‘ There was no doubt in my mind , no confusion , simply a compulsion to live the rest of my life with you . ’ |
| 25 | She begins one sentence : ‘ Although I have no idea how I shall usefully fill the remainder of my life … ’ |
| 26 | I ca n't know if you succeeded in changing the course of my life , but it 's possible . |
| 27 | My mother , having been deprived of one prospective son-in-law , Cedric , now got it in to her head that I might meet an American , and decide to marry him and live the rest of my life in the USA , where she could n't get at me and see what was going on . |
| 28 | Three cups of neat Malibu mixed well with the rose wine and Armagnac I had drunk at supper and I felt garrulous and cheerful , confiding in strangers and telling the story of my life . |
| 29 | By this time I was convinced that nothing could work and that I would have to spend the rest of my life obsessed with food , hating my body , eating every day to the point of pain , and desperately frightened if I could n't find any laxatives or make myself sick . |
| 30 | Personally , what I wanted was to spend the rest of my life in Moscow together with my collection of icons . |