Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] 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 | Some pay an additional disturbance payment to compensate the expatriate when he has to readjust to life in Britain on his return . |
| 3 | Tommy 's face seemed to come to life . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As the coaches slip quietly through the tolls on the Severn Bridge , the Royal Military Academy itself is beginning to come to life . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The BBC1 blockbuster Civvies — which starts tonight — takes an uncompromising look at ex-Paras as they try to adjust to life outside the Army . |
| 10 | I 've always tried to happen to life ; but it 's time I let life happen to me . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And then , as though it had been waiting there to be born , a plan had begun to come to life in her mind . |
| 15 | Those who took part in the last Challenge are now trying to adjust to life , and jobs , back on dry land . |
| 16 | A TOWN in Peru is in an uproar over a legend that a Blackburn woman buried there is a vampire who has vowed to return to life tomorrow to seek revenge . |
| 17 | postman Pat 's lifelike van , and Jess the Cat , all combine to bring to life on stage the world of Greendale which children know so well from their television screens . |
| 18 | Yet with all this incidental detail , the central story of J89 obstinately fails to come to life . |
| 19 | 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 . |