Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] to life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here is an opportunity to see day-to-day activities relating to life on the estate — working farm with dairy cattle , sheep and arable crops — all set in attractive parkland . |
| 2 | His pictures bring to life the Grecian-style mansions with their over-plush interiors , the seated ladies with their black female servants standing decorously behind them , the elegant members of the town 's prosperous , post-civil-war black middle class . |
| 3 | Maggie 's legs came to life , although shakily , and she sprang away . |
| 4 | As he peered through the binoculars he felt a tremor of excitement course through him at the prospect of seeing the printed images come to life . |
| 5 | It has for long been the task of the Secretary of State for the Home Department either in the exercise of the prerogative of mercy or more recently on a statutory basis to determine in the case of prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment , how much of that sentence should be served . |
| 6 | After the abolition of the death penalty in 1965 there was plainly some anxiety by the legislature as to how prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment for murder should be dealt with . |
| 7 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will make a statement on the guidelines for the period of imprisonment to be served before prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment will be released on licence . |
| 8 | At once the kneeling statues came to life . |
| 9 | Some emigres take to life in the West better than others ; Mullova appears to have adapted almost completely , and says she has no regrets about having left Russia . |
| 10 | Window boxes , tubs and hanging baskets come to life in summer , bringing rich colour to buildings and gardens throughout the country . |
| 11 | Later , over a cup of coffee backstage , Kylie talks frankly about homesickness and how it had taken her two years to adjust to life in England . |
| 12 | The four huge black mastiffs came to life , smashing their great muscular bodies against the grille , lips curled , white teeth flashing , jaws slavering . |
| 13 | Her misgivings sprang to life again . |
| 14 | ‘ That 's the way to do it , ’ said Araminta pleased , as all the puppets came to life again for a curtain call . |
| 15 | This piece , known as Dreaming Like A Tall Man , explores evolution , things coming to life . |
| 16 | There was no space in here for the literature that had brightened his being and not enough light between these walls for fairytale merchants brought to life in old romances . |
| 17 | With the sun , the bargemen came to life . |
| 18 | Two sisters sentenced to life in prison for murder have been freed by the Appeal Court after it was revealed that the Police deliberately withheld crucial evidence . |
| 19 | She had been magically conjured up out of dream words and dulcimer sounds and trees of spice , a creature from a pleasure-dome he had not yet seen , a Queen of Pleasures brought to life just for him , just for now . |
| 20 | Now she was on board RMS " Otranto " watching the place names spring to life . |
| 21 | Ten army officers sentenced to death in connection with the coup attempt of the previous August [ see p. 38380 ] had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment on Dec. 3 . |
| 22 | Like Earl Pratt and Ivan Morgan they 're all now expected to have their sentences commuted to life imprisonment . |
| 23 | I started to walk across to the pile and as I did , all my toys came to life and stood in a line facing me . |
| 24 | Revenue ‘ personnel ’ ( and I use the term ‘ personnel ’ advisedly , for they ca n't be real people , can they ? ) suddenly finding themselves victims of a money-is-the-only thing-that-matters approach to life . |
| 25 | My eyes roved around the little shop , taking in the wooden treasures brought to life by Quirke . |
| 26 | In the second half , Saracens came to life with an early try from winger , 0'Leary and a feeling of fear gripped the crowd for a time . |
| 27 | Real children stir to life the child that lives on in every parent . |
| 28 | This is the principle upon which Dr Barsamian 's mathematics for vortex field equations is constructed , and in accordance with the above findings relating to Life Force energy fields , an understanding of the problem of cancer is also made easier . |
| 29 | Several of its leaders were executed and many others sentenced to life imprisonment . |
| 30 | He threw a lever and the twin 1500-horsepower engines roared to life . |