Example sentences of "come to life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Levi 's paints actually manage to come to life as human beings in The Wrench , a less fanciful book which nevertheless claims that ‘ paints resemble us more than they do bricks . |
| 2 | As the coaches slip quietly through the tolls on the Severn Bridge , the Royal Military Academy itself is beginning to come to life . |
| 3 | Among the parties that are soon to come to life the Socialists , National Democrats and the Christian Democrats will figure strongly . |
| 4 | Franca observed sadly , but without surprise , that her strange feeling of love for Patrick had waned and finally abated as he continued steadily to come to life . |
| 5 | There have been so few reading problems in the whole hundred-and-odd pages that the story has been free to come to life , you can see it all , enjoy it all : ‘ Dear Miss Blyton , I think your stories are really exciting ! ’ |
| 6 | My impression of Rangoon in those first days was that it was only just beginning to come to life again , with everyone rather hopeless about the difficulties involved . |
| 7 | Tommy 's face seemed to come to life . |
| 8 | Yet with all this incidental detail , the central story of J89 obstinately fails to come to life . |
| 9 | In the shade beneath the trees he saw that the " massacred " Annamite coolies were beginning to come to life ; they untangled themselves from one another with painful slowness and staggered to their feet . |
| 10 | Look on the funny side ; I mean , supposing , just for a sec , we pretend that , somehow or other , the little cow hat actually managed to come to life . |
| 11 | And then , as though it had been waiting there to be born , a plan had begun to come to life in her mind . |
| 12 | He 'd have expected her to wait hungrily for his kissess and his caresses , to come to life when he whispered her name … |
| 13 | The man had come to life very considerably in discussing his job and a formidable personality was emerging . |
| 14 | Somehow when that person comes on the screen you know immediately , that 's right , that 's the one , they really make the character come to life . |
| 15 | Susan-Jane Tanner as Mrs Peachum , is a toothy , 18th-century caricature come to life . |
| 16 | With her little black broom in her hand , Angela danced gaily out of the tent , and she looked just as if the Gnome on her Brownie uniform had come to life ! |
| 17 | Here on the horizons of thought such ideas as Kant 's noumena come to life . |
| 18 | But there was all the experience and help of Ann Scott Jones who somehow managed to make the lonely job of the Usherette/Narrator come to life , and the magic of Hildegarde Bechtler , the designer , turning the Tron into a real ‘ Forties cinema with help from the hardpressed stage manager , Gibby , and somebody 's wonderful collection of cinema architecture bric-a-brac and memorabilia . |
| 19 | Best of all was Peter Royston 's eight-minute dance which told all-you-can-remember from Disney 's film — it was as if the cartoon had come to life as there she was , on points , bluebird balanced on her finger … |
| 20 | Soap opera had come to life within touching distance . |
| 21 | It was as though the carved angel by the lectern had suddenly come to life . |
| 22 | MAKE YOUR BEAUTY COME TO LIFE . |
| 23 | Blondie were a group , but Blondie was also Debbie 's alter ego , a cartoon character come to life , a girl that has fun even if her heart gets broken . |
| 24 | And so the Cheetahs have come to life . |
| 25 | All around them the world had come to life . |
| 26 | This college has come to life and advanced considerably under the direction of its very live wire Rector Mr Jocelyn Stevens . |
| 27 | The girl had come to life , was leaning forward , her trembling hand tight on Alice 's forearm . |
| 28 | Try to visualise the meaning of historical writing and thereby make the past come to life . |
| 29 | I had said that we should go to Egypt for this , not believing that the occasion would ever really arise ; that I should be married to Syl and taken to the country in which I had come to life and lost it . |
| 30 | He saw , as though some wall painting had come to life before his eyes , the glitter of steel and the minute clusters of rainbow colours just moving over the crest of one rise , to descend into the next bowl ; and riding towards them , negligently like men out hawking , he saw a smaller group , no more than half a dozen mounted men , who had been until this moment hidden from them by the lie of the land . |