Example sentences of "[pers pn] for life " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some ways I feel her peculiar dilemma parallels my own for she described her stance as one which distanced her from the classical anthropological mode , creating a ‘ memorable adventure ’ , which she claims , ‘ has marked me for life ’ ( ibid. 22 ) . |
| 2 | It all started out as a silly student prank , but it was to mark me for life . |
| 3 | If we can write back to somebody , or send them the CD or shirt they want , we will almost certainly have them for life . |
| 4 | I eat only fish at the Mermaid these days — not because I believe in dieting , but because I once suffered an awful chips surfeit that put me off them for life . |
| 5 | Another day of dreadful toil had come to the industrial ghettos of early Victorian Glasgow , a world often forgotten and ignored , a world echoed throughout Britain where families lived and died bounded by a few streets , walled from the world of green and life by an invisible fence , a dead hand that bound them in chains of language , and rags , and marked them for life more surely than any thief was ever branded at Glasgow Cross . |
| 6 | The Imperium had assigned them for life to Quintus , to assist in its uplift . |
| 7 | Home Economics should not lose its status as a subject , because the knowledge attained by pupils prepares them for life . |
| 8 | He was reactivating them for life . |
| 9 | Men were naturally more active and intelligent , while women had evolved characters that fitted them for life in a world dominated by aggressive males . |
| 10 | No bad way , Spruce reflected , to prepare them for life in the modem , dangerous world . |
| 11 | She was married to a man who believed her to be a traitor and a spy , a man who had stood beside her during a ceremony that bound them for life and had not once looked at her , nor touched her except to push a heavy , engraved ring on to her finger . |
| 12 | During these early years children form attitudes and perceptions which will be with them for life and so we must nurture in the children those attitudes and values which will be with them for life and so we must nurture in the children those attitudes and values which will serve them in years to come . |
| 13 | During these early years children form attitudes and perceptions which will be with them for life and so we must nurture in the children those attitudes and values which will be with them for life and so we must nurture in the children those attitudes and values which will serve them in years to come . |
| 14 | I 'd suggest to him that at least the place should be yours for life ; let the young man have it on your death . |
| 15 | This shall be yours for life and for the lives of any children you may happen to have . |
| 16 | And once it has found you , it is yours for life . |
| 17 | He asked you for life , and you gave it to him — |
| 18 | I do hope I sha n't drop any bricks in Overclyst , and disgrace you for life . ’ |
| 19 | One bullet in the wrong place can cripple you for life or send your blood gushing on to the pavement . |
| 20 | The Army prepares you for life , it makes you grow up and learn discipline . |
| 21 | You read it in the papers : it could ruin you for life , witnessing a murder . |
| 22 | Little wonder that they were so fresh in her mind ; creating a very powerful effect on his mind and unconscious , musically and rhythmically , that would remain with him for life . |
| 23 | It was quite soon after the terrible motor accident that had crippled him for life , and she had just come in from the garden with a bunch of flowers for him . |
| 24 | Whippings in Sri Lanka were carried out with a cat-o-nine-tails and flayed the back of the prisoner , scarring him for life . |
| 25 | The moulding was hard and marked him for life . |
| 26 | ‘ To have banned him for a few months would have been one thing , but to take him to court and ban him for life seemed to defeat the object of the exercise . ’ |
| 27 | saying , ban him for life . |
| 28 | Because of this , it went on , the city was bound to him for life and death and was now ready to spring to his assistance with a great display of strength . |
| 29 | His first column , under the generic strap-line ‘ Sitting on the Fence ’ , appeared on 30 November 1930 on page 3 — a star position — and under his new by-line , Nathaniel Gubbins , which was to remain with him for life . |
| 30 | This delusion remained with him for life . |