Example sentences of "his life " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the somewhat pietistic Alban Butler in his Lives of the Saints acknowledges this : |
| 2 | The author spent much of his life as a bachelor Fellow of Brasenose College Oxford ; his cloistered life was devoted to writing , notably on classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance . |
| 3 | Fénéon , like other excellent critics , was a valued friend of artists , and so he remained all his life even though he gave up writing criticism after a decade of working on the Revue blanche from 1893 to 1903 . |
| 4 | He spent the rest of his life in expertise , painstakingly cataloguing the pictures and drawings of his favoured period , the Italian Renaissance , and in giving advice , notably to the great Bostonian collector , Mrs Gardner , and the main dealer of the period , Joseph Duveen . |
| 5 | In Spain Bernard questioned the principle that the end justifies the means — ‘ the human price was too high ’ — and it had almost ‘ cost him his life ’ . |
| 6 | Dyer thinks of himself as ‘ a stranger to mankind ’ ; his life is led apart , ‘ in a Corner ’ . |
| 7 | Shakespeare 's play has an arranged duel which miscarries , and which takes off a divided , gambling man who has wondered whether or not it might be better to end his life . |
| 8 | She is saying that this good thing , this knowledge , can be used — to tell us , for example , that Amis is not a Tudor writer : but she is rather more moved to say at the same time that it ca n't or can hardly be used , devoted as she is to the thought of a separation between , in this case , Amis 's friendships and politics , his life — and his art . |
| 9 | And I am also thinking of the identification of Rahila Khan — a novelist supposedly Asian and female — as an Anglican vicar ; and of the attempt to thwart a biography by the Englishman Ian Hamilton of the American J. D. Salinger , whose novels tell the story of his life , but who does not want anyone else to do so , preferring to keep his facts to himself . |
| 10 | They can be said to determine and to indetermine , both to record , and to distort and desert , the facts of his life . |
| 11 | Two months after the Herling piece was published Levi committed suicide , throwing himself down the staircase of the house in Turin where he was born and grew up , where he wrote about his life in the camp at a desk which stood where his cradle had stood , a house he shared with his wife and mother . |
| 12 | I do n't suggest that these unfavourable writings pushed him to do what he did , though I do n't mind suggesting that the bigotry and vicarious piety they may be reckoned to contain could be classed among the negative experiences of the last months of his life . |
| 13 | The modes which he adopted were such as to licence elisions and lacunae , to enable him to leave out bits of his life — a procedure which would seem to be connected with his scepticism about what can be known about people by biographers . |
| 14 | These omissions and transpositions indicate that Levi could well have kept to himself any plan he may have formed to end his life . |
| 15 | ‘ The Jew from Babylon ’ is an enthralling tale about a Jewish sorcerer , a believer in the faith , hated by demons and disapproved of by rabbis , who in old age endures a turmoil which ends his life . |
| 16 | Her virtue is so important to her that she can more easily contemplate her brother sacrificing his life to save her virginity than that she might sacrifice herself for him . |
| 17 | His imitations of other voices calls for a good sense of mimicry , and should bring the dreariness of his life into focus . |
| 18 | And force him to ask the same questions of his life , and to reply : This is all there is and it is enough . |
| 19 | The point is , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , that he had spent his life seeking her out , yet left his feet to do the dirty work . |
| 20 | Routine in his life was everything and he would be jiggered if anything — even the abduction of Squire Blacker — would interfere with it . |
| 21 | I do n't think Father has been in the kitchen in his life . |
| 22 | Now deep is my dole , for lost is his life ! |
| 23 | My fellow residents turned out to be a chap in his late thirties who was trying to put his life back together after the death of his wife and various other things , and a chap of about my age who had also run into problems after his wife died . |
| 24 | He is a man of balance and careful equilibrium , a man with something to say by his life as well as by his words . |
| 25 | The artistic emphasis of the locality ( there are other writers and musicians nearby , all in close contact with Leonard ) is symbolic of his life . |
| 26 | But he was to spend the next dozen or so years of his life as a partial invalid . |
| 27 | One of Leonard 's few memories of his father ( in addition to his monocle , his spats and his hair smelling of Vitalis ) is that of his reading , both privately and aloud , to him and his sister — precious moments that fired the young boy 's imagination and set him , although no one realised it at the time , in the direction of his life 's work . |
| 28 | His names projected an above-average sensitivity and commitment , which was to haunt Leonard throughout his life . |
| 29 | For the second time in his life the icy fingers of death pierced his innermost self . |
| 30 | Yet there were bright moments , and the overall feelings in his life were those of contentment and growing confidence . |