Example sentences of "[pos pn] life was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My life was a dream . ’ |
| 2 | Underneath I felt that my life was a weird cocktail of huge , secret binges and hidden stashes of food , and late-night trips to the off-licence to buy vast amounts of chocolate and crisps . |
| 3 | I could have written back to explain that my life was a daily humiliation and an unrelieved imprisonment , but I felt sure that they would neither care nor understand and , again , pride deterred me . |
| 4 | My life was a nightmare . ’ |
| 5 | For the first years with Sarah my life was a happy one . |
| 6 | I know , because my life was the same . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ The most wonderful experience of my life was the day I went into Spain . |
| 8 | My life was an empty shell without love . |
| 9 | The centre of their life was the abbey church , which still survives almost intact , the view through the east window of the wooded slopes being particularly memorable . |
| 10 | Her sleeve of care was unravelled all right : her life was a basket of woollen shreds , all shades and textures and not one of them long enough to do anything with . |
| 11 | Her life was a ceaseless round of hard work , of struggling to make ends meet , of keeping up appearances and yet her lion-like spirit showed through . |
| 12 | Her life was a whirl of parties , outings to the theatre , dinner-dates , picnics and quiet evening walks . |
| 13 | She was an excellent shrewd local politician and a comfort to her at the end of her life was the defeat of the atrocious plans of the Merrell Dow Chemical Company to build a plant near her beloved River Blackwater , the last campaign in which she played an active part . |
| 14 | So her life was an unhappy one . |
| 15 | Graham , 28 , was quiet , self-effacing and likeable — but his life was a disaster zone . |
| 16 | His life was a million miles away from ours , his past revered , his future assured , the son of a doctor and the father of one , and when it came to ‘ caring ’ he 'd only touched the surface . |
| 17 | As they passed the alimentari ( shut , as it might be forever ) and then plunged off the road into the shadows of the bramble-lined single track , Haverford quoted , as he had been waiting to do ever since they left Heathrow : ‘ ‘ In the middle of the journey of our life , I found myself lost in a dark wood , ’ ’ he began to translate for the benefit of the children , but they were all , including the baby , asleep now and Molly thought that for her father to pretend to be in the middle of his life was a bit of a cheek anyway . |
| 18 | His life was a brief one and his war service was heroic . |
| 19 | The thought that I had crushed something out of his life was a disquieting one . |
| 20 | Hyde in danger of his life was a new experience for me . |
| 21 | Ace in particular seemed genuinely interested in her work and , although she 'd never really been fooled into thinking his life was a hedonistic round of pleasure apart from risking his life sixteen weekends a year , she was quite surprised at the dedication he displayed in keeping fit and the work he put in behind the scenes . |
| 22 | His life was a mess and he knew it . |
| 23 | In fact , his life was a life of crime . |
| 24 | And I think that in this sense his life was a failure , that he was never able to live up to his scientific naturalism , that he was never able to integrate his romantic nature with his view of the nature of the universe . |
| 25 | The mechanism that thrust him away from advertising and into politics and enabled him to change his life was the London Business School . |
| 26 | By this he means that the principle he had known as dominant in his life was the principle of sin and the death to which it inevitably led . |
| 27 | The great cause of his life was the Scottish communion office , the eucharistic liturgy deriving from the 1637 Scottish Book of Common Prayer . |