Example sentences of "[adv] for life " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 2 | ‘ You 'll go down for life . ’ |
| 3 | In another sense , though , it also puts an onus on the individual with learning difficulties to accept the role of learner in the relationship — perhaps for life ( Tomlinson , 1985 ) . |
| 4 | She 'll have to stay on them for a couple of years , more than likely , perhaps for life . |
| 5 | They also know that once a person joins a bank , in most cases , they do so for life . |
| 6 | So for life assurance it 'll be page twelve of the C C Q but it 's role play number one . |
| 7 | No , me and my verruca are together for life . |
| 8 | Conté Carres crayons are well known and very popular , especially for life drawing . |
| 9 | The alternatives would seem to be handing General Noriega to the US forces to face trial on drug-trafficking charges , which the Vatican has said it will not do , or giving him up to the new Panamanian Government , which has already declared it ‘ has enough on him to put Noriega away for life ’ . |
| 10 | If the police get to him first , he 'll be put away for life . ’ |
| 11 | I was sent away for life , and they 'll hang me if they discover I 've come back . ’ |
| 12 | The judge decided that Magwitch , a convict sent away for life who had returned , must be hanged . |
| 13 | Put them away for life we hope . |
| 14 | These were built primarily round the kin-group , and expanded by the making of bonds of maintenance and manrent , whereby lords and men offered one another protection and support , normally for life , sometimes in perpetuity . |
| 15 | A job is no longer for life . |
| 16 | ‘ Miss Morgan got some of it just for life ? |
| 17 | Not just for life , for good . |
| 18 | And whether he were not in this dilemma ; that either his estate might enure for life , at his option ; and then according to Lord Coke such an estate would , in legal contemplation , be an estate for life ; which could not be created by parol : or if not for life , being for no assignable period , it must operate as a tenancy from year to year ; in which case it would be inconsistent with , and repugnant to the nature of such an estate , that it should not be determinable at the pleasure of either party giving the regular notice . |
| 19 | Civil servants are in the same department for many years , if not for life , while the minister lasts only two to three years . |
| 20 | And it 's usually for life ’ , a group of graduating students told me . |
| 21 | The style of the letter , the conversation , the catechism , or the lecture appealed to those popularizing science and afraid that the neophyte might be put off for life by too dry a style . |
| 22 | one lady said she was put off for life after her first kiss , and never kissed another man . |
| 23 | Charlie was sensitive about having false teeth at thirty — why had n't all that wartime milk and orange juice set him up for life as it had his contemporaries ? — but he did n't mind Jack knowing . |
| 24 | You were set up for life with them , ’ Olive Fitzgerald of the Samaritans , bracing for a flood of calls over the next few months on their telephone helpline , told Reuters ' man . |
| 25 | He knew he was wealthy , set up for life , but he was already being made to pay for the taking of those lives : almost every night since , he had been troubled by dreams in which he found himself face to face once more with his victims . |
| 26 | Also you do n't have to join up for life , although you will be surprised how many do choose to stay with us . |
| 27 | If you have got any sense , a lump sum of 400k can easily set you up for life . |
| 28 | A Celtic move set Mowbray up for life financially , and Middlesbrough hit the jackpot with a seven-figure profit for a player from the junior ranks . |
| 29 | He seemed to want to try to remain in the underworld while still reaching out for life 's little comforts and luxuries . |
| 30 | The therapist can not win out against death , but he or she can win out for life , for a sense of the real , for the kind of growth that truly matters ; dealing as it does with the evaluation of ways to love and hate , with the meanings of human conduct , an appreciation of human nature , and the succession of the generations . |