Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] their life " in BNC.
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| 1 | The better-off feel it is their right to make comments and recommendations about how the poor should lead or improve their lives . |
| 2 | Friends , colleagues in the movement who 'd never left their bitter cells , or spent their lives in labour camps till they died of exhaustion . |
| 3 | He had spent some time alone after talking to her father , had changed his clothes and had a shower , trying to clear his mind of all the stuff of history , the political necessities that ruled their lives , the reasons he must lie . |
| 4 | The greater the openness of the boundary , the greater the potential capacity to negotiate across it ; the greater the number of open boundaries , the greater the potential power available to the social actors to promote a dialectical relation with the outside world , to actively influence the processes , policies and events that touch their lives Conversely , the fewer open boundaries there are perceived to be and the more closed , the more powerlessness and passivity is likely to be manifest in relation to the outside world . |
| 5 | Two families have spoken about how they 're coming to terms with a playgroup accident that changed their lives . |
| 6 | She had not wanted to impose her ideas on her family , nor run their lives for them . |
| 7 | These are flying beetles that begin their lives in the soil as the familiar white or cream-coloured grubs , fat from feeding on plant roots , horny headed , usually brown in colour , very slow and sluggish moving and curled rather like a large letter C. There are several kinds , from the large cock chafer to the much smaller greenish rose chafer . |
| 8 | During the rest hours and at night , he had turned his face to the wall and cried over their shared youth and all the bonds of sun and blowing grass and long evenings full of the sound of tumbling rooks that tied their lives together . |
| 9 | The Greeks found this agnostic approach yielded a sense of presence and bliss that transfigured their lives : it gave them the discipline to apprehend a reality infinitely greater than they could conceive , even though at the same time its absence was acutely felt . |
| 10 | Prior to getting around to the job I have to do , and that is to honour those men that gave their lives so that we could be free , I 'd like to just share a few things with you as we return to this wonderful country . |
| 11 | There should have been a lifespan of twenty years for H3 , but other priorities had been higher , and every four years since 1973 there had been a doctoring of the patient , a new lick of paint on the inside , an attempt to reinforce the roofing against damp , new wiring to carry the power of the computer that ran their lives . |
| 12 | If there 's something in our music that someone can identify with in some way , something that makes their life easier … |
| 13 | We believe in citizenship , not subjecthood — in the ability of all individuals to exercise power over the institutions that govern their lives . |
| 14 | This abandonment of both the major innovations made by the descendants of Eusthenopteron during their colonisation of the land occurs not only among those salamanders that have taken to water but even among some that spend their lives almost entirely on land . |
| 15 | The two Britishers , Cyril ( McKern ) and Amos ( Alec Guinness ) are making a pilgrimage to the battlefields that scarred their lives , and meet up with a group of Americans : D-Day veteran Waldo ( John Randolph ) , his daughter Beverley ( Geraldine Chaplin ) and an enigmatic widow Lisa ( Lauren Bacall ) . |
| 16 | Typescripts photocopied and distributed that carried the rivulet of dissent from eye to eye for the few who trusted in a future of change and the ultimate destruction of the monolith that controlled their lives . |
| 17 | Secondly , he suggests , an a priori argument may also be advanced : ‘ What makes a society of any sort is a community of ideas , not only political ideas , but ideas about the way its members should behave and govern their lives ; these latter ideas are its morals . ’ |
| 18 | The growing independence of their children , at each successive stage , can be a matter of concern rather than joy for those who over-commit and over-identify their lives with the nurturing of dependent children . |
| 19 | FSLN leaders had been given farms and houses because , the Sandinistas argued , they had sacrificed good salaries for a decade and dedicated their lives to the defence of the country against the US-backed contra rebels . |
| 20 | Victor Frankl wrote of a survey which was conducted on a large number of Harvard University graduates who were very dissatisfied and regarded their lives as meaningless despite the high material success of their work . |
| 21 | ‘ And I know what they say about people who invite other people out to dinner and then spend the whole time trying to depress them and ruin their lives . ’ |
| 22 | But we know that people disagree to some extent about the right principles of behaviour , so we distinguish that requirement from the different ( and weaker ) requirement that they act in important matters with integrity , that is , according to convictions that inform and shape their lives as a whole , rather than capriciously or whimsically . |
| 23 | It would help to create a more responsive social climate , enabling them to fulfil their potential and conclude their lives with dignity . |
| 24 | Well if they can afford to buy in help and to sort their life out , you 've suddenly got a product that they really want to buy . |
| 25 | Jackie Stewart stated that when he contributed to ‘ professionalizing ’ the sport ; drivers continued in his wake , creating an adversarial relationship between those who drove and risked their lives and those who lived , on sponsor money , high on the hog and risked little but their reputations . |
| 26 | In a letter to Survival , he states that : " We will ask the local people to participate in the project , and we will teach them and upgrade their lives . |
| 27 | According to Moschion , who lived about the third century BC but wrote in the spirit of a century or two earlier , it was due to Time — ‘ the begetter and nurturer of all things ’ — that ‘ The earth , once barren , began to be ploughed by yoked oxen , towered cities arose , men built sheltering homes and turned their lives from savage ways to civilized . ’ |
| 28 | They decided , according to this writer , to bring up their babies alone because they want to be independent and manage their lives without a man . |
| 29 | Decisions about management , life-styles and living arrangements , even about educational capacity have been taken by doctors with a consequent decrease in the power of individuals and their families to plan and control their lives . |
| 30 | Transport virtually nil for Africans , we have to spend two or three hours a day going to work and the same coming back tired , exhausted and risking their lives with . |