Example sentences of "his life be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's enlarged and if it ruptures his life is at risk . |
| 2 | Where the problem arises is in the comparatively rare situation in which an adult patient declines to consent to treatment which in the clinical judgment of those attending him is necessary if irreparable damage is not to be done to his health or , in some cases , if his life is to be saved . |
| 3 | It is unfair to the citizen , who is entitled in a democratic society to have the rules by which his life is to be regulated properly debated and scrutinized by his elected representatives . |
| 4 | Michael Bowerman , defending , said : ‘ The prosecution is not in a position to proceed now and that is nothing to do with the defendant at all and yet his life is in a state of limbo . ’ |
| 5 | But the two crucial relationships of his life were with his father and , later , with his wife . |
| 6 | A brilliant officer with more than twenty commendations , he had grown to believe he was omnipotent ; and when Mathews refused to tell him the names of his accomplices , saying it was more than his life was worth , Drury , obsessed with clearing up another case , offered him a deal : make a statement that three men whose names I will give you were your accomplices , testify against them in the witness-box , and in return no charges will be brought against you , and we 'll come to an arrangement about the reward money offered by the Post Office . |
| 7 | Like Herbert , however , he suffered from ‘ aguish distempers ’ ; his doctor advised that the only chance of saving his life was for him to travel overseas in order to escape from the Cambridge climate and as a respite from his studies . |
| 8 | He felt , when he woke the next morning , that his life was at an end-a complete disaster . |
| 9 | He said that Stompie must be taken to a hospital if his life was to be saved . |
| 10 | The principal love affair of his life was with Adelaide Foltinowicz ( ‘ Missie ’ ) , who was twelve when he first met her serving in a restaurant , ‘ The Poland ’ , at Sherwood Street . |
| 11 | Sad though his life was from then on until his death in 1864 , his poems — many of them — remained joyful . |
| 12 | Everyone knew his life was in danger . |
| 13 | Kevin was a politician and of course his life was in the States , but had n't he said only the night before , ‘ My heart 's here in Ireland , Rose . ’ |
| 14 | When the army began getting tough with the Peking students last year , Zeng was there to act as the country 's conscience , but a week after the outbreak of violence he realised that his life was in danger and that he must leave China while he could . |
| 15 | But his main preoccupation during the latter part of his life was in attempting to obtain the public recognition which he felt he had been denied . |
| 16 | ‘ Did he ever say anything to suggest that he felt threatened , or that his life was in danger ? ’ she asked . |
| 17 | He had said publicly on Aug. 12 that his life was in danger , and that the Minister of Labour , Peter Okondo , had told him he " might not come back alive if he went to Busia " . |