Example sentences of "[verb] for life " in BNC.
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| 1 | How to avoid becoming fat after 30 will be one of the issues addressed by SHE 's food correspondent Janette Marshall , who is also co-author of the bestselling Eat for Life Diet ( Vermilion , £8.99 ) . |
| 2 | He could have been paralysed for life … by a toy which been hired to give him a good time . |
| 3 | But you talk with a group of youngsters , one of whose friends has just been flown back from a border patrol paralysed for life ; or to a big warm-hearted farmer who tells you , as he jokes with his grandchildren , how he sleeps with his rifle beside his bed and watches every road for landmines — and you see the other side of the coin . |
| 4 | The 28 then elected continued to sit for life but the last of them , the Earl of Kilmorey , died in 1961 . |
| 5 | In cases in which pain and suffering is not expected to continue for life the court has to form a view as to how long it is likely to continue . |
| 6 | You can Ride For Life , Dance for Life … |
| 7 | In his celebrated letter to Chesterfield , Samuel Johnson asks : ‘ Is not a Patron , My Lord , one who looks with unconcern on a Man struggling for Life in the water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help . ’ |
| 8 | An intricate watering system would eventually replace the army of Baluchistan gardeners who tended not only the road islands but the roundabouts and the young plantations of trees struggling for life under the condemnation of the sun . |
| 9 | A fly , whose buzzing had been driving me insane , was struggling for life . |
| 10 | Mr Wolski thought of his friend the eagle who was struggling for life through this long night Then he did something he had not done for years , for decades , since before the darkness came to his own life in the Second World War : he said a silent prayer . |
| 11 | Is it seriously suggested that the entire elderly population should be regularly screened , that a clear majority should be followed up monthly for six months , and that half should be treated for life on the basis of even the most optimistic interpretation of the trial data ? |
| 12 | we , also , are dying for life . |
| 13 | DESIGNED FOR LIFE |
| 14 | The answer must be that the bird is designed by nature for this medium in the same way that dolphins are designed for life beneath the sea . |
| 15 | ‘ A fearful thing for so young and attractive a lady to be trapped for life . |
| 16 | Further , he might by the same instrument grant a present estate , say for life , to A , followed by an estate for life or in tail to B , and , if he wished , as many further particular estates ( for life or in tail ) to other persons successively as he pleased , ending up , if he thought fit , with an estate in fee simple to some person named . |
| 17 | I pulled him away and tried to get him upstairs in case he was traumatized for life , but he kicked me in the balls . |
| 18 | Do n't wait for life to wave its magic wand and make you joyful . |
| 19 | A few weeks of war and from what the psychiatrists are saying more than half of them are shattered for life . |
| 20 | I mean if er that w you you 'd had it if if you w ruined for life if you er took one man 's see but served two teas . |
| 21 | A person who has applied for life assurance , but who does not wish to have the test after being asked to do so , should write withdrawing their life assurance application at once , because otherwise it will be refused . |
| 22 | WALK FOR LIFE |
| 23 | SINCE the launch of the 1992 Walk For Life in September , T-shirt orders have been mounting up along with details of some inspired , some fascinating and some frankly madcap ideas for the project . |
| 24 | WALK FOR LIFE |
| 25 | Walk For Life . |
| 26 | Crusaid 's enormously successful fund raising activities include the annual sponsored walk , Walk for Life . |
| 27 | Five of the eight prisoners due to be released were convicted of terrorism and sentenced for life in the famous Rivonia Trial of 1964 . |
| 28 | She was sentenced for life to be Clare 's younger sister in his eyes . |
| 29 | The 44-year-old star watched little Christina battle for life thankfully successfully after an operation for a hole in her heart . |
| 30 | The 44-year-old star watched little Christina battle for life after an operation for a hole in her heart . |