Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] to life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian Evans first came to the Palace in September 1974 as The Eagles sought to adjust to life in the 3rd Division , after plummeting straight through Division Two in 1973–74 , and he quickly established himself as a favourite among the fans at Selhurst Park with his wholehearted displays at the centre of our defence . |
| 2 | This college has come to life and advanced considerably under the direction of its very live wire Rector Mr Jocelyn Stevens . |
| 3 | It is a part of his search for perfection , according to Mr Ferguson , who is delighted at the way Schmeichel has adapted to life in England . |
| 4 | A smaller relative is the clouded leopard ( top right ) ; the snow leopard ( bottom right ) has adapted to life at up to 20,000ft ( 6,096 m ) and generally has a thicker coat . |
| 5 | The snow leopard , Panthera uncia , has adapted to life among the screes and snows at altitudes of up to 20,000 ft ( 6,100 m ) . |
| 6 | The work has brought to life a number of fine frescoes which were concealed beneath a thick layer of plaster . |
| 7 | The whole character of the game has been changed by a goal which er suddenly has brought to life in a way which we did n't see at all for the first half . |
| 8 | Some pay an additional disturbance payment to compensate the expatriate when he has to readjust to life in Britain on his return . |
| 9 | Tommy 's face seemed to come to life . |
| 10 | It was the Book of Remembering coming to life . |
| 11 | This was the Book of Remembering come to life ! |
| 12 | Maybe I could stack it up and set the place alight , so that they — and that terrible female they were now conspiring to bring to life — would perish in the flames , together with all Frankenstein 's instruments and notes . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Furthermore , I am hypothesising that , on occasions , they collectively develop shared myths to account to themselves how they relate politically to each other in their different roles within the complex organization of a business enterprise and so give meaning to life at work . |
| 15 | The images that he 's going to use come to life . |
| 16 | As the coaches slip quietly through the tolls on the Severn Bridge , the Royal Military Academy itself is beginning to come to life . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A bell on the wall , one of a row on curved metal springs above black glass plates announcing , in gold letters , the rooms they belonged to , sprang jangling to life . |
| 20 | Though modest , Lucy admits she gets a buzz from seeing the characters she creates come to life on the screen . |
| 21 | In the Ordovician and Silurian periods they became adapted to life in most marine environments , but were particularly numerous in shallow water habitats , in some cases forming whole banks , as mussels do today . |
| 22 | The BBC1 blockbuster Civvies — which starts tonight — takes an uncompromising look at ex-Paras as they try to adjust to life outside the Army . |
| 23 | Instead of being condemned to death he felt condemned to life , like these worker-convicts in the rain and cold and mud of a no-man 's land . |
| 24 | That is not easy for them to do , for so extremely have their bodies become adapted to life in the air that their legs are greatly reduced in size . |
| 25 | I 've always tried to happen to life ; but it 's time I let life happen to me . |
| 26 | It was a subconscious form of mourning for a foolish love she 'd allowed to spring to life in her heart , only to kill stone dead — except that her feelings for Dane were far from dead , she acknowledged ruefully . |
| 27 | This will-to-meaning , Frankl argues , is more important than will-to-power but , of course , an individual can be obsessed by power and gives meaning to life in this way . |
| 28 | But , for the original inhabitants of the lands the desert is the familiar place that provides nature and gives meaning to life . |
| 29 | Throughout his chaotic years in Paris he continued to go to life classes , but he could not afford the five francs an hour for a model and so rarely had a chance to paint the nude , except for his girl-friends , and that , as he was beginning to realize , was expensive too . |
| 30 | Ever since he was a student in Florence and Venice , Modigliani had studied the female form repeatedly and passionately and when he came to Paris he continued to go to life classes . |