Example sentences of "[vb -s] his life " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a two-hour operation , doctors said John , of Kirkby , Merseyside , owes his life to a padded jacket which prevented the jagged metal piercing vital organs . |
| 2 | Yet he owes his life to this man who , in saving him , has sacrificed his hands to frostbite . |
| 3 | Now able to resume his job as a postman , he owes his life to the paramedics . |
| 4 | One of the guards was badly injured , and says he owes his life to her prompt action . |
| 5 | Tom says he owes his life to Joyce , and he ca n't thank her enough . |
| 6 | Ms Hurst knows the boy who owes his life to her kindness simply by his first name , Berend , because of the rules of anonymity governing marrow donations . |
| 7 | ‘ That young bloke undoubtedly owes his life to Mr Kirwan , ’ said Mr Dinsdale , who was called to the scene at about 6.10pm yesterday . |
| 8 | Staff at Gloucester Gaol say the prisoner probably owes his life to his cell mate . |
| 9 | The equipment which saved Ray was bought by the Thame business United Biscuits , and some of the staff who contributed were also at the pub today to meet the man who owes his life to their generosity . |
| 10 | He makes , he rearranges his life . |
| 11 | I understand what Morrissey is saying because he lives his life like me . ’ |
| 12 | Sacrificial actions follow from the religious and ethical ideals and criteria that determine the way he thinks and acts and inform the spirit in which he lives his life . |
| 13 | But , I thought to myself well that 's up to him how he li , he , he lives his life . |
| 14 | As already noted , the administrative receiver starts his life as a contractual appointee , though he occupies a position recognised and reinforced by statute and may not be removed save by order of the court : section 45(1) . |
| 15 | Every time a lifeboatman puts to sea , he risks his life . |
| 16 | L. T. Peters ' The 11th Plague ( 1974 ) describes ‘ an infinitesimal germ , a microorganism , unleashed upon a helpless giant , the United States ’ , and a doctor who risks his life to do something about it and ‘ for one terrible moment finds that the fate of the world is in his hands ’ . |
| 17 | Every time a lifeboatman puts to sea , he risks his life . |
| 18 | ‘ Every day Smailovic risks his life playing to the dead in the graveyards of Sarajevo . |
| 19 | ‘ Whoever finds his life will lose it , and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it . ’ |
| 20 | And who ever loses his life for my sake , will find it . |
| 21 | Hassan meanwhile ( between endless rushes to airports , trying to convince faceless , emotionless authorities that they 're dealing with genuine political refugees ) realises his life must find time for love as well as small ‘ p ’ politics . |
| 22 | He sees his life as some kind of a preparation for the day when the George Bushes and Margaret Thatchers of this world are dispatched to refine their political beliefs on welfare benefits in an urban slum . |
| 23 | ‘ The Jew from Babylon ’ is an enthralling tale about a Jewish sorcerer , a believer in the faith , hated by demons and disapproved of by rabbis , who in old age endures a turmoil which ends his life . |
| 24 | ( Richard Foster used Dallas Willard as his director for over four years and reckons his life to be ‘ the embodiment ’ of the teaching in Celebration of Discipline ) . |
| 25 | Psalm 104:30 : ‘ When thou sendest forth thy Spirit they are created , and thou renewest the face of the ground ’ refers to the animal creation , and may mean not so much that the Spirit created them , but , as in Genesis 2:7 , that God breathes his life into the already moulded form of animals and man . |
| 26 | The Spirit of God breathes his life into man ; he revives the dry bones ; he infuses vitality into inert matter , but the evidence that he is involved in the work of creating the world is very slim indeed in the Old Testament and non-existent in the New . |
| 27 | Although he is based in Paris and spends a great deal of his time in his various houses in France , Lagerfeld is , in the way he conducts his life and work , a relic of an older Germany — a country of small principalities , ruled , like Herzog 's eighteenth-century Weimar , by cultured and cultivated monarchs who surrounded themselves with small courts of aristocrats , intellectuals and kindred creative spirits . |
| 28 | ‘ Whoever finds his life will lose it , and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it . ’ |
| 29 | Andrew Lambirth examines his life and work . |
| 30 | It 's enlarged and if it ruptures his life is at risk . |