Example sentences of "for the [noun sg] of my life " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been preparing myself for this for the whole of my life , he wrote . |
| 2 | It 's funny , but I seem to have known that little habit for the whole of my life already . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm going to be doing this for the rest of my life if I 'm not careful , ’ she told me one day . |
| 4 | If I plead guilty to that , I thought , I 'll end up in the nick for the rest of my life . |
| 5 | To me it is a worthwhile occupation and one which I am convinced will stand me in good stead for the rest of my life . ’ |
| 6 | But the memory of those sacred bones remained engraved upon my memory for the rest of my life . |
| 7 | The immigrant ship to South Africa , and all that followed , was still in the womb of time ; but at that moment I resolved that though I would grieve for Leslie for the rest of my life , I would yet to go forward , lighting my way by the torch of the incandescent spirit . |
| 8 | I was really enjoying my new status as a mother and being at home and caring for Danielle and watching her grow and learn was all I wanted to do for the rest of my life . |
| 9 | The copy of the tune ‘ Auld Lang Syne ’ that exists in my brain will last only for the rest of my life . |
| 10 | Even after I was married and had children , and had travelled extensively in Africa and North America , I still used to wake up sometimes sweating in fear , convinced that I was still in the Waaf and for some mysterious reason unable to obtain my release , but was condemned to remain in the Force for the rest of my life . |
| 11 | I had to live with myself for the rest of my life . |
| 12 | I would be on my bike for the rest of my life , stuck on the stopping train to nowhere . |
| 13 | It would be a pity , but I have a lifetime exemption at Augusta , I can play in the tournament for the rest of my life . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Shall not I be chained like a prisoner to a child for the rest of my life ? |
| 15 | And it 's something I 'll remember for the rest of my life . |
| 16 | I realized a long time ago why you were so set on Charlie and me marrying , and I 'm very fond of him , and I 'd like to go on living at Lady Mead for the rest of my life . |
| 17 | ‘ I will never understand this for the rest of my life . |
| 18 | ‘ And if I have to pay up for the Mercedes at £1 a week for the rest of my life then that 's what I will do . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ This is something which will haunt me for the rest of my life . |
| 20 | Thus it was that , as I was wheeled perspiring into the editor 's office , that the first words ever spoken to me by an NME bigwig will remain with me for the rest of my life . |
| 21 | If I 'd become known as the Man In The Pyjamas , I 'd have to wear those pyjamas for the rest of my life ! |
| 22 | I suppose I had persuaded myself that sending men to prison was n't something I cared to do for the rest of my life . |
| 23 | In terms of sheer inhumanity , one incident in August will remain stamped on my mind for the rest of my life . |
| 24 | You aroused an interest for me in literature which has been a resource to me for the rest of my life and a source of real enjoyment . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I thus started a relationship with that country that has been constantly rewarding for the rest of my life , and indeed I now regard it almost as my second homeland . |
| 27 | As for snooker , well , to approach the televisual ideal , by which we all measure ourselves , I 'd have to do nothing else for the rest of my life . |
| 28 | But it 's all for the rest of my life , an important fact for me , and to say , OK , I do n't need it any more , it has to be a very strong and bad change inside Kirov , I will be so upset or so unoptimistic or so helpless that I will feel I can not do anything more . |
| 29 | Can I really expect her to do that for the rest of my life ? ’ |
| 30 | " Will I be wearing it round my neck like a cow-bell for the rest of my life ? " — and she rushed up the spiral steps to her room , to tell herself that she hated João , and Portugal , and even her own mother . |