Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] to life " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then suddenly I pop back to life , clamber across Jenny 's lap and open the window . |
| 2 | Despite the crossbow bolt in his thigh , Eudo had survived the rack , the boot and the strappado : every limb was broken but he clung tenaciously to life . |
| 3 | Sat waiting for it to come back to life . |
| 4 | And so he came back to life . |
| 5 | With articulated limbs and facial expressions which even allow the effigy to weep tears and gnash its teeth , it springs fully to life before the hypnotized community , dragging the priest behind it , speaking recognizably in the voices of the recently as well as more distantly departed . |
| 6 | It is as follows : that the decision to turn off a ventilator is , in fact , a decision to terminate the life of a patient or to remove from a patient the last thread by which he held on to life . |
| 7 | During the death story Tin Roof tells Someone that they do n't ‘ move in time ’ ( 133/329 ) , but when he comes back to life , Larry feels as if he ‘ live[s] backwards ’ ( 104/300 ) and hears conversations ‘ in waves that run backwards through time ’ ( 103/299 ) . |