Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] for life " in BNC.
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| 1 | By that time his feelings of resentment against his mother were fixed for life , and the imaginative intensity with which he called up the Devon landscape as a lost Eden of content had become a habit of mind . |
| 2 | Although men who were retained for life by a great magnate had an obligation to serve him in peace and war , and although there is little evidence about how the sub-contractors recruited their troops , neither the magnate captains nor their sub-contractors seem to have encountered much difficulty in persuading men to serve . |
| 3 | There was speculation that the tabloids were preparing for life under a Labour government . |
| 4 | Walter Sisulu himself , who as secretary-general of the ANC was more senior even than Nelson Mandela when the two were jailed for life in 1964 , served seven jail terms between 1953 and 1963 . |
| 5 | Ryan Monks and Paul Mill , both 21 , were jailed for life at Perth High Court yesterday for hacking gunshop manager Mr Gordon Johnston , aged 54 , to death during a raid at his shop in Dundee . |
| 6 | Stephen Miller , 26 , Tony Paris , 35 , and Yusef Abdullahi , corr 30 , were jailed for life at Swansea Crown Court in 1990 after Lynette , 20 , was killed in Cardiff . |
| 7 | The brothers , now 58 , were jailed for life in 1969 . |
| 8 | At an earlier trial , Dennison and Stuart Warne — the main link between the drug-dealers and the Ulstermen — both admitted conspiracy to murder and drugs charges and were jailed for life . |
| 9 | The Krays were jailed for life in ( 1969 ) nineteen sixty nine , but their young fans have written to them , and one has even met Reggie in prison . |
| 10 | Poole and Mills were jailed for life for the murder of Gloucester drug dealer Hensley Wiltshire in the city 's Conduit street , they 've always protested their innocence . |
| 11 | Two men , Thomas ‘ TC ’ Campbell and Joseph Steele were jailed for life for the murder of the six members of the Doyle family . |
| 12 | Two men , Thomas ‘ TC ’ Campbell and Joseph Steele were jailed for life for the Doyle murders . |
| 13 | Two men , Thomas ‘ TC ’ Campbell and Joseph Steele were jailed for life for the murder of the six members of the Doyle family . |
| 14 | Latimer , 30 , and three former Ulster Defence Regiment soldiers were jailed for life for Mr Carroll 's murder . |
| 15 | THIRTY FIVE people died and others were maimed for life in the Clapham rail disaster in December last year because work was done in a slovenly , haphazard way and was then left unchecked . |
| 16 | Three others were imprisoned for life and 18 received lesser terms in two sedition trials , the first such cases under anti-terrorism legislation introduced in July [ see p. 39030 ] . |
| 17 | A fly , whose buzzing had been driving me insane , was struggling for life . |
| 18 | Mr Wolski thought of his friend the eagle who was struggling for life through this long night Then he did something he had not done for years , for decades , since before the darkness came to his own life in the Second World War : he said a silent prayer . |
| 19 | I pulled him away and tried to get him upstairs in case he was traumatized for life , but he kicked me in the balls . |
| 20 | She was sentenced for life to be Clare 's younger sister in his eyes . |
| 21 | Some were appointed by letters patent under the Great Seal : in 1299 , for example , Gervase of Holloway , King 's yeoman , was granted for life , as a reward for long service : |
| 22 | He was scarred for life , but the accident had done nothing to dampen his competition nature and just six weeks later he was finishing fourth at Monza . |
| 23 | 11 weeks on , Stephen Thomas is n't being allowed to forget the night he was scarred for life . |
| 24 | A TEENAGER , Alexander Sommerville , was detained for life yesterday for the senseless and brutal murder of a middle-aged lawyer . |
| 25 | A YOUNG policewoman was fighting for life early today after being stabbed three times as she tried to break up an argument . |
| 26 | She revealed that she first learnt of the threatened closure while her daughter was fighting for life . |
| 27 | A TODDLER was fighting for life last night after he swallowed a bottle of lethal acid at a doctor 's surgery . |
| 28 | A TWO-YEAR-OLD boy was fighting for life last night after being hit by a bike at a moto-cross meeting . |
| 29 | Valerie Slimp , 39 , was fighting for life as the venom from the deadly Brown Recluse Spider attacked the cells in her body . |
| 30 | LITTLE Jolene Watkins , 11 , was fighting for life last night after being crushed by a runaway car which hurtled into a play- ground . |