Example sentences of "be [vb pp] alive " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( A frog can be boiled alive in water that is brought to boil slowly . ) |
| 2 | The devout Buddhist sees the hare who was willing to be roasted alive so the starving brahmin could eat his flesh . |
| 3 | I do n't want to be roasted alive and eaten by the Gruncher . ’ |
| 4 | He was going to be buried alive ! |
| 5 | The Sun , on the eve of the Gulf War , had quoted Jason as saying that he would rather be buried alive that fight for his country . |
| 6 | If one had to worry about one 's actions in respect of other people 's ideas , one might as well be buried alive in an ant heap or married to an ambitious violinist . |
| 7 | Unless de Raimes ' castle was falling down by itself , he was under attack from someone , and if no one came for her she could be buried alive , forgotten , trapped in the darkness until death overcame her . |
| 8 | We are to be buried alive under charters . |
| 9 | He says it is absolutely the case that the baby can not be born alive if a Caesarean operation is not carried out . |
| 10 | That 's the good news , now for the bad : ‘ I am almost certain to ask a member of the audience to come up and be burnt alive . ’ |
| 11 | Engine failure north of Reggane and they might not be found alive . |
| 12 | His widow Sheila said last night she had hoped and prayed her missing husband would be found alive . |
| 13 | Stephen had gone out first , scrambling up the shaft , putting all his weight this time on the rope and wondering what would happen , whether they would ever be found alive , if the rope came unfastened from the spur of rock to which they had tied it . |
| 14 | Earthworms can also be stored alive in damp leaf mould placed in an icecream tub which has had small holes punched in the lid . |
| 15 | It is , I decide , not my fault either that I am a human being who does not want to be eaten alive . |
| 16 | Terrified of choking and terrified that the rope would give way , that she would fall and be eaten alive by those metal teeth , she screwed her eyes tight and prayed . |
| 17 | Although it is undoubtedly the case that farm animals do suffer from many of the horrors of intensive husbandry ( it can not be pleasant for a pig to be eaten alive ) there are serious questions to be asked about the extent and nature of the alleged suffering . |
| 18 | One burrow may eventually contain as many as half a dozen of these paralysed prisoners , each doomed in due course to be eaten alive by the wasp grub that hatches upon it . |
| 19 | They wept and clanked their chains and speculated on how it would feel to be eaten alive by the lions . |
| 20 | Cells and embryos can be viewed alive or fixed immediately after staining . |
| 21 | Would anybody be left alive inside ? |
| 22 | Brückner could n't be left alive with that knowledge . |
| 23 | About 200-300 Awa Guajá are thought to be left alive , of whom about 150 have had no contact with outside society . |
| 24 | He 'll never allow himself to be taken alive . |
| 25 | Only Fand was attacked ; Ruth guessed she and Adam were to be taken alive . |
| 26 | It was as if they 'd been ordered not to be taken alive . ’ |
| 27 | Would be be cooked alive ? |
| 28 | Even with supplementary feeding , only a few dolphins can be kept alive in such small reserves , which may not be enough to maintain an adequate gene pool . |
| 29 | Furthermore , when Joseph explained to his brothers the purposes of God that had been running through the events they had been caught up in , he used terms recalling the promises of Genesis 12 : ‘ … you meant evil against me ; but God meant it for good , to bring it about that many people should be kept alive , as they are today ’ ( 50.20 ; see , too , 45.4–11 ) . |
| 30 | I would not like to be kept alive by a machine , like a vegetable , day in day out , she had once decided , I would prefer to accept my appointed day . |