Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] back to life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , take an accident like that hair in the gate , put it together with the coincidental gaze of a ghost , and it 's as if Fonda really has come back to life . |
| 2 | For this son of mine was dead and has come back to life ; he was lost and is found ( Luke 15:24 ) . |
| 3 | Politics has come back to life as well . |
| 4 | While undergoing an operation his heart has stopped , but he has come back to life after having been declared dead and deposited in a coffin . |
| 5 | Within the party , the vote has brought back to life a dormant distaste for Mr Salmond and his strategy . |
| 6 | DESPERATELY-ILL schoolgirl Wendy Walker has battled back to life to repay her loving parents ' amazing devotion . |
| 7 | The father pleaded with the elder brother and tried to point out to him that it was only right to celebrate for it was as if the younger son had come back to life from the dead . |
| 8 | She looked at the baby , also drenched in tears , and found he had come back to life . |
| 9 | It was as if Lady Lavinia herself had come back to life , and sat staring at her out of the malevolence in her soul . |
| 10 | He told the doctors all about how my dad had come back to life in this grey cardigan and had told him the secrets of the universe . |
| 11 | It was the end of Ramadan and the Old City , funereal for the last month , had sprung back to life with a vengeance . |
| 12 | ‘ You look like a corpse that 's come back to life again . |
| 13 | Vic Norman ( left ) and Torquil Norman take a moment to pause and reflect on the aerodrome they have brought back to life . |