Example sentences of "of [pron] [noun sg] life [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope that I shall not be retiring too soon , but if I see out the rest of my working life as a Member of the House , I shall retire with a pension that should look after me comfortably . |
| 2 | I do n't want to think I 've wasted almost a year of my working life on an abort . |
| 3 | Previous sexual partners of the accused man may be interviewed about the details of their sex life with him . |
| 4 | The apparent casualness of the alliance , and the stormy passages of their wartime life in Berlin , did not alter the resolve with which Margaret Joyce was to stand by her difficult husband in the most onerous and tragic phases of the eight years of life which remained to him . |
| 5 | There is nonetheless little doubt that it has spent much of its working life as a corn mill , grinding corn for the local population . |
| 6 | The WE177 free-fall bomb will be approaching the end of its service life around the turn of the century , but no decision has yet been taken on the system to replace it , or where it will be based . |
| 7 | Jean or Jeannie Symonds was still working in Skinners in 1913 , left the trade for a few years but was readmitted in 1927 , so it seems safe to assume that she spent much of her working life in the printing trade and did not marry . |
| 8 | Deborah Manley trained as a social worker but has spent most of her working life in publishing . |
| 9 | Sheila Danby spent most of her working life in education , latterly in adult literacy as part of Operation Upgrade which involved working in Soweto . |
| 10 | It was only Brian who had ever interrupted the even style of her working life by phoning or calling , to ask idiotic questions about things that had already been agreed or arranged , but forgotten through drink . |
| 11 | She 'd spent the whole of her adult life in a state of dread . |
| 12 | She had spent many years of her adult life in Page Street and most of her old friends still lived there in the row of terraced houses . |
| 13 | He had spent most of his working life on the paper and was not far short of retirement so the move was astonishing . |
| 14 | He spent most of his working life on cooker and roller floors in the Flake Mill , but also worked on grain intake in the silo . |
| 15 | He was an ecologist of international significance , widely acknowledged — indeed revered — as the pre-eminent British field botanist of his time , and his prowess was the more remarkable given that he was born , blind in one eye , into a poor Welsh family , that he left school at 14 , and that he spent the first 33 years of his working life as a North Wales quarryman . |
| 16 | That he has managed to carve out such a successful photographic career for himself is extraordinary when you consider that he spent the first 12 years of his working life as a bricklayer . |
| 17 | He had spent most of his working life as a bureaucrat in various organizations attached to the CPSU . |
| 18 | Trained in Copenhagen ( where he shared a house with Caspar David Friedrich ) Dahl spent most of his working life in Dresden . |
| 19 | Although he has spent most of his working life in academia he did have an eight- year stint , from 1963 , in industrial research . |
| 20 | , Robert ( d. 1653 ) , physician and author , seems to have spent most of his working life in the cloth town of Cranbrook in Kent . |
| 21 | This theory is largely due to Thomas Gold ( b. 1920 ) , an Austrian-born astronomer who has spent most of his working life in Britain and in the USA . |
| 22 | A diplomat who spent most of his working life in foreign capitals could easily feel himself part of an aristocratic international to which national feeling was hardly more than a vulgar plebeian prejudice . |
| 23 | The centrepiece of Wren 's work in London was , of course , the construction of his imposing new cathedral , a project that occupied much of his working life from the submission of his earliest plans in 1669 and the beginning of construction work in 1675 , to the eventual completion of the building in 1710 . |
| 24 | Stewart , who has 26 knockout wins in 29 fights , gave Evander Holyfield the fright of his boxing life in 1989 and also wobbled Michael Moorer last year before Moorer knocked him out . |
| 25 | Aislabie , who lived for most of his adult life at Lee Place , Eltham , Kent , and at East Park Place , Regent 's Park , died at this latter residence 2 June 1842 . |
| 26 | Anderson spent most of his adult life in Africa . |
| 27 | Harari spent much of his adult life in Israel 's secret world . |
| 28 | She gathered that he had spent most of his adult life in the army . |
| 29 | Antonio Gramsci , who spent most of his adult life in one of Mussolini 's prisons , elaborated on Marx 's insight that the ruling ideas of an epoch are the ideas of its ruling class , to create a theory of hegemony and a theory of classes of intellectuals whose function it is in any literate society to propagate or to challenge these leading ideas . |
| 30 | He hears from one individual who has spent most of his adult life in prison . |