Example sentences of "[vb past] come to life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tommy 's face seemed to come to life . |
| 2 | The man had come to life very considerably in discussing his job and a formidable personality was emerging . |
| 3 | With her little black broom in her hand , Angela danced gaily out of the tent , and she looked just as if the Gnome on her Brownie uniform had come to life ! |
| 4 | Best of all was Peter Royston 's eight-minute dance which told all-you-can-remember from Disney 's film — it was as if the cartoon had come to life as there she was , on points , bluebird balanced on her finger … |
| 5 | Soap opera had come to life within touching distance . |
| 6 | All around them the world had come to life . |
| 7 | The girl had come to life , was leaning forward , her trembling hand tight on Alice 's forearm . |
| 8 | I had said that we should go to Egypt for this , not believing that the occasion would ever really arise ; that I should be married to Syl and taken to the country in which I had come to life and lost it . |
| 9 | He saw , as though some wall painting had come to life before his eyes , the glitter of steel and the minute clusters of rainbow colours just moving over the crest of one rise , to descend into the next bowl ; and riding towards them , negligently like men out hawking , he saw a smaller group , no more than half a dozen mounted men , who had been until this moment hidden from them by the lie of the land . |