Example sentences of "her life " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is present in the book as narcissistic , driven and depressive , with the fascination of such people , as the enigma of an exceptional vitality drawn towards ‘ laziness ’ and extinction , as a suicidal survivor , her life a chapter of escapes . |
| 2 | The piece requires delicacy , to express the real awfulness she senses in her life . |
| 3 | No , he wrote , because Diana herself does not acknowledge either that she has been waiting all her life for him to appear . |
| 4 | It did n't stop her hoping , waiting and hoping , for the next five years , he wrote , wasting her life when it was obvious he had no intention of going through with it . |
| 5 | It was worth waiting for all her life , she said . |
| 6 | She may have made a mess of her life ; she may have faced problems beyond your comprehension . |
| 7 | Driving home , dropping Lucy a block from her life , her house , her son . |
| 8 | Lucy spoke of her life , Jay wanted to hold her and hug the hurt away . |
| 9 | Now , in her life she had relaxed and wonderful parties all year . |
| 10 | Had to be responsible all her life . |
| 11 | These days of wonder , she felt graciously pleased with her life ; keeping her self-promise not to be heavy with Lucy , thinking herself under the skin and into the mind of the woman she loved . |
| 12 | Or was she confounded by two separate parts of her life coming together ? |
| 13 | Lucy was treating Jay like a delightful new acquaintance she could n't quite place or fit into her life . |
| 14 | She relaxed and told Jay about her life , with the wry humour of a survivor . |
| 15 | She adored him and tied her life up totally with his . |
| 16 | Unless you were threatening her life ? |
| 17 | Her sleeve of care was unravelled all right : her life was a basket of woollen shreds , all shades and textures and not one of them long enough to do anything with . |
| 18 | How to make sense of Lucy and this dizzying all-consuming pain ; how to find a meaning for her life which had only acquired meaning with Lucy as its radiant centre . |
| 19 | Seeing her had become part of her life , first pleasant , then ecstatic , then the whole reason for being . |
| 20 | Jay 's rainbow wings fluttered around a sun-sparkling river that had become her life , where she had been moping by an old canal full of dead shopping trolleys for years . |
| 21 | And she had so perfected this technique of politely disappearing , that she had to live almost half her life before she came to realize that she had almost disappeared to her own self ! |
| 22 | Of how there are no accurate contemporary representations of her life , only this heritage stuff about happy agricultural labourers with straws in their mouths , or chirpy cockneys eating winkles . |
| 23 | Violet next door to me , who I help sometimes rake over her allotment , is eighty-five years old , and if one was to draw a graph of her life from 0–85 , it would be one of unremitting poverty . |
| 24 | It was as if he were memorizing her life so he could sail to New York , adopt a different accent , and claim to be a long lost relative due a piece of her fortune which had n't been considerable and might all be gone now . |
| 25 | He was the great love of her life . |
| 26 | Seles admits she ca n't lob or serve very well to save her life . |
| 27 | The moment she encounters Romeo and senses somehow that her life has changed her movement becomes more purposeful . |
| 28 | The old money-lender with her ‘ Jewish ’ interest rates is to be murdered because her life is worthless and her hoarded wealth can be put to good use ; when the unimportant deed is done the doer will launch himself into something that really matters , a large-scale philanthropic exercise . |
| 29 | Her life has become intolerable , she says , ever since she became a social services ‘ project ’ . |
| 30 | Her life is a monotonous routine . |