Example sentences of "[adj] to be alive [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FIREFIGHTER Gary Madill is lucky to be alive after crashing through a roof and smashing 25 feet to the ground . |
| 2 | The singer Frankie Vaughan says he 's on the mend , but lucky to be alive after a two-hour emergency operation . |
| 3 | Well Wrapped , 7-4 fav , is lucky to be alive after a crashing fall at Newbury in February but made all in the Charlecote Handicap . |
| 4 | And you think that you 're lucky to be alive in that respect , but I 've never really thought that I was specially picked out for some reason to carry on living . |
| 5 | However , in a country where the air is as likely to be alive with mosquitoes or tsetse flies as flamingos , Mr Sandy discovered that whisky had additional uses : ‘ It appeared that consumption of one 's own product was an excellent anaesthetic for all the bugs in the tummy and I was never ill once . ’ |
| 6 | But it 's wonderful to be alive in it . |