Example sentences of "their lives [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who spend their lives looking for some practical escape from the ordinary world eventually have to accept the fact that there is no escape except through death or the imagination . |
| 2 | Millions of people spend their lives caring for someone who is elderly , disabled and vulnerable . |
| 3 | It 's very hard to spend months in the archives , reading the papers of the people who spent so much of their lives fighting for this kind of thing , and not I think be rather affected by dedication and by the evidence that they amassed with such enormous difficulty , and by the way they kept coming back and fighting for it over and over again , and the free market argument by comparison lacks that kind of humanity I think . |
| 4 | The vast bulk of lawyers spend their lives working for business interests , and top lawyers work overwhelmingly for giant corporations who alone can afford their fees . |
| 5 | The East India Company and other companies like the Royal Africa Company and the Hudson 's Bay Company rarely brought in men like Roe to help with work at the top , and normally expected to promote people who had spent their lives working for the Company . |
| 6 | Most people ensure that they spend their lives working for something which they think has a future , and which will provide the sort of life and opportunity that they wish for themselves and their dependants . |