Example sentences of "lucky to be alive " in BNC.

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1 Fire Brigade Station Commander Bruce Hoad said : ‘ The children are very lucky to be alive .
2 ‘ They are both lucky to be alive , ’ said Roberta Feggans , a senior nurse .
3 Also in the house were two children , no doubt lucky to be alive , as Mrs Dyer usually despatched her charges within a few hours of receiving them .
4 He really took it out of this photographer , and I can tell you he 's lucky to be alive today .
5 As he points out , the other man was killed and he knows he is lucky to be alive .
6 I am just lucky to be alive . ’
7 ‘ There is no doubt the people involved are lucky to be alive , ’ said a police spokesman .
8 He said : ‘ I am lucky to be alive . ’
9 He is lucky to be alive . ’
10 They are lucky to be alive . ’
11 ‘ I 'm lucky to be alive .
12 ‘ I 'm lucky to be alive .
13 LUCKY to be alive skydiver Terry Wakenshaw vowed yesterday to go on with the sport which killed his girlfriend and almost claimed his life .
14 Sickened detectives said the old lady was lucky to be alive after the ‘ gruesome ’ attack left her with a broken jaw , a gaping head wound and shock .
15 PAUL WAY , former golden boy of British golf , is lucky to be alive , kicking and just three shots adrift of Ian Palmer in the £600,000 GA European Open at Sunningdale .
16 I 'm lucky to be alive . ’
17 Well , two of these Barny offspring — they were lucky to be alive , for Mr and Mrs Barny were just about the most brutal parents any owl could be unfortunate enough to have — were paired with Paradise Park birds and remained behind .
18 During over 30 years of adventures Bonington has faced great danger — he admits he is lucky to be alive — and lost many friends .
19 I think any serious climber has got to admit that he 's lucky to be alive , not that he 's skilful to be alive .
20 They were both lucky to be alive .
21 Then I told myself that I was lucky — lucky to be alive , lucky to have food and tools , lucky to be young and strong .
22 Reading between the lines , Coffin sensed she felt lucky to be alive .
23 Lucky to be alive , you might say .
24 And you think that you 're lucky to be alive in that respect , but I 've never really thought that I was specially picked out for some reason to carry on living .
25 FIREFIGHTER Gary Madill is lucky to be alive after crashing through a roof and smashing 25 feet to the ground .
26 In Derry , newly-elected SDLP councillor Jim Clifford said today his daughter was lucky to be alive after a brick was thrown through the front window of the family home .
27 You 're lucky to be alive .
28 The foster mother said she thought the teenager was lucky to be alive — and people could n't believe the change in him .
29 Andrew O'Donnell is lucky to be alive .
30 Police and her husband agree she 's lucky to be alive .
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