Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The BBC1 blockbuster Civvies — which starts tonight — takes an uncompromising look at ex-Paras as they try to adjust to life outside the Army . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And so the Cheetahs have come to life . |
| 7 | The television puppets from Sesame Street have come to life on stage . |
| 8 | Because you realise the characters have come to life for people . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , one group of toads , the spadefoot toads , have adapted to life in some of the hottest and driest places in the world . |
| 10 | Among the antelope these include gazelle species that have adapted to life in India . |
| 11 | Both the nilgai and the four-horned antelope were originally Indian woodland species that have adapted to life on the plains . |