Example sentences of "'s life [vb past] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | The officers said innocent men 's lives had been put at risk and their families had been forced to move house because identities had been disclosed . |
| 2 | people 's lives had been put at risk ; |
| 3 | To know with certainty whether one 's life had been considered good or bad would be a comfort , but even more satisfying would be to find there in the book the answers to the little unsolved mysteries of everyday life ; to read what really happened clearly and truly , like a watchmaker who opens the little door in the front of a grandfather clock and looks inside . |
| 4 | He pointed out that a young officer 's life had been tragically taken while doing his duty , protecting others . |
| 5 | Since his return home , the prodigal 's life had been rather different . |
| 6 | Before his conversion in 1756 , Smart 's life had been very different from what it was now to become . |
| 7 | Everything in Jean-Claude 's life had been decided before he met me , and I was being fitted into a preordained pattern . |
| 8 | It was , as Ben understood at once , seeing the surprised delight on his father 's face and the astonished horror on the face of the official taster , quite unprecedented , and made him realise how circumscribed the T'ang 's life had been . |
| 9 | On a visit to his mother he began to ask her what his father 's life had been like . |
| 10 | His father 's life had been similarly unorthodox , for he had kept a second mistress and three daughters , whose existence was revealed only after his death . |