Example sentences of "'s life [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People are excluded from seeing death by the fact that death has become more like an illness that must receive medical attention , rather than the last event in a person 's life that they should be left in peace to deal with in whichever way they choose . |
| 2 | These are all features of a child 's life that they need . |
| 3 | She had been so engrossed in Martha 's life that it had not even crossed her mind that she ( Maxine ) should be frightened of that great expanse of water . |
| 4 | A court 's been hearing how an off-duty nurse saved a security guard 's life after he 'd been shot in the chest during an armed robbery . |
| 5 | Mam and Da wanted to know everything about Rosie 's life since they saw her last — where had she been , what had she done — but she only shook her head . |
| 6 | He has little knowledge of a shepherd 's life since he writes his idyllic poem from the town , as a wealthy poet , and can not possibly see the reality as one would have it from experienced eyes . |
| 7 | This is because benefits ( which are entirely fuel savings over the whole system ) are less valuable early in the plant 's life than they become later , as coal and oil prices are expected to rise continuously in real terms . |
| 8 | There is no doubt that Jennie Walker had played quite a part in John 's life before they were married . |
| 9 | But one ended Patrick 's life before it had properly started . |
| 10 | However , the curators of the show have deliberately concentrated on the period in Howard Carter 's life before he was thrust into the limelight . |
| 11 | On February 27 she was told only a heart transplant would save her husband 's life and they would have to wait for a donor . |
| 12 | ‘ Thoo saved oor George 's life and we shall nivver forget this day . ’ |
| 13 | Perhaps the book of lamentation is not the book you normally turn to , to find words of encouragement , but there are tremendous encouragements to be found in it , listen what the profits says there , in the third chapter , he says this I recall to my mind , and he 's talking about the time of his own affliction , the time when he is going through it , the time when nobody loves him , the time when everybody 's against him , when he 's suffering and he 's in pain the time when life is full of bitterness for him , he says this I recall to my mind , therefore I have hope , the lords loving kindness indeed never ceases for his compassion 's never fail and here Jesus is demonstrating that , he 's compassion 's never fail , he 's loving kindnesses they never cease , here in his dying hour Jesus is showing that in reaching out to this man but as we said the other week the , the deepest , the most important significance of what Jesus did then , of what Jesus said then , its not just of the historical account , but that he is able and willing to say and to do exactly the same today in your experience and in mine , what he did for that man on the cross he 's ready and willing to do for every one of us the incident may of happened nineteen hundred years ago , but there 's the old hymn , the verse reminds us , picks out that very story and it says the dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day and there may I , though via us he wash all my sins away , and that verse from William Cowper 's hymn , it takes up that great historical event , that tremendous happening in that man 's life and he links it with a present and it applies it to you and to me and says this can be our experience as well . |
| 14 | Christian faith was the mainspring of Dobbie 's life and he personified the ideal of the officer as missionary , propagated by Charles Kingsley [ q.v . ] . |
| 15 | Clothes were all very well , they were her father 's life and she knew that all the privileges she enjoyed were hers because of clothes and the stupendous success they had brought him , but she could n't care about them . |
| 16 | Sandy means an awful lot in that old lady 's life and she does occasionally reach the point when she 's got so little money left that believe it or not she has to choose between buying food for herself and buying dog food for Sandy . |
| 17 | If he loved Dana he would be part of her sister 's life and she hoped she would never have to see him again . |
| 18 | This was based on his father 's life and it did well enough to bring in five thousand pounds . |
| 19 | I thought it was the most important time in Natasha 's life and I was n't there . |
| 20 | She learned about Hawk 's life as he learned of hers , and they became close . |
| 21 | The Church of England 's authorities need to be careful lest in their desire to maintain ‘ ethos ’ and ‘ style ’ they miss completely the breath of the Holy Spirit 's life as it blows past them . |
| 22 | While we know of certain special cases ( the sonnets of Michelangelo to Tommaso Cavalieri , for instance ) , it is now clear that this was not at all customary , and that the imputation of homosexuality in the Renaissance could have as destructive an effect on a man 's life as it has had until recently ( if , indeed , there has been any real change of English attitudes in these supposedly liberal times ) . |
| 23 | And years of Mass and Devotions , the Sacred Heart Messenger and a thousand shoddy pieties , of no make-up , of becoming " a fine Catholic teacher " , of enacting someone else 's life as it might have been , as it would have been " with my advantages " . |
| 24 | The boats stop at places which were important in Rembrandt 's life where you can disembark and then continue the tour on a later boat . |
| 25 | Various factions are at work , each seeking to promote its own interests — I 'd not give a fig for the young king 's life if he fell in with one of them ! |
| 26 | And of course if you are nursing you ca n't afford to make mistakes , it may cost somebody 's life if you do . |
| 27 | There was never a time in Sir Hector Laing 's life when it ever occurred to him to work for any other company than the family business , originally called McVitie $ Price and now known as United Biscuits . |
| 28 | This is rather like the moment in Lewis 's life when he described philosophy as a subject and Barfield replied that to Plato , philosophy was not a subject but a way . |
| 29 | ACTION by US scientists may have saved Academician Andrei Sakharov 's life when he was exiled to Gorky in 1980 — according to an anonymous letter recently circulated in Moscow . |
| 30 | That crucial time in a child 's life when he has the ability to understand that his parents and teachers are trying to prepare him for his adult life , will not necessarily be related to his age . |