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INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

life, existence ☊

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Bob's one aim in life is to earn a lot of money. ☊ aim ☊
Someone has made an attempt on the President's life. ☊ attempt ☊
It was the worst experience of her life. ☊ bad ☊
His job has become his whole life. ☊ become ☊
Those were the best years of my life. ☊ best ☊
Anne was French by birth but lived most of her life in Italy. ☊ birth ☊
Mozart's life was brief. ☊ brief ☊
The service was a celebration of his life (= praised what he had done in his life). ☊ celebration ☊
His family comes first (= is the most important thing in his life). ☊ come ☊
She saved him from the fire but at the cost of her own life (= she died). ☊ cost ☊
cost sb sth: That one mistake almost cost him his life. ☊ cost ☊
Changing schools made a big difference to my life. ☊ make a, no, some, etc. difference (to/in sb/sth) ☊
Once again her life felt lacking in direction. ☊ direction ☊
I have never in my entire life heard such nonsense! ☊ entire ☊
Only one painting was exhibited in the artist's lifetime. ☊ exhibit ☊
People seem to float in and out of my life. ☊ float ☊
Television has become a major force in American political life. ☊ force ☊
Don't give up. You still have your whole life in front of you. ☊ in front of ☊
His death left an enormous gap in my life. ☊ gap ☊
I've never been so glad to see anyone in my life! ☊ glad ☊
Those were the happiest days of my life. ☊ happy ☊
Money played an important role in his life. ☊ important ☊
His first music teacher was a major influence in his life. ☊ influence ☊
I have never been so insulted in my life! ☊ insult ☊
He became an author late in life. ☊ late ☊
The documentary caused a lot of bad feeling, not least among the workers whose lives it described. ☊ not least ☊
He's lived here all his life. ☊ life ☊
I've lived in England for most of my life. ☊ life ☊
He became very weak towards the end of his life. ☊ life ☊
Brenda took up tennis late in life. ☊ life ☊
He will spend the rest of his life (= until he dies) in a wheelchair. ☊ life ☊
She is a life member of the club. ☊ life ☊
She has been an accountant all her working life. ☊ life ☊
He met a lot of interesting people during his life as a student. ☊ life ☊
Several attempts have been made on the President's life (= several people have tried to kill him). ☊ life ☊
Her words have lived with me all my life. ☊ live ☊
He lived in poverty most of his life. ☊ live ☊
He was the love of my life (= the person I loved most). ☊ love ☊
That was the luckiest escape of my life. ☊ lucky ☊
Leaving school so young was the biggest mistake of my life. ☊ mistake ☊
That was one of the happiest moments of my life. ☊ moment ☊
Never in all my life have I seen such a horrible thing. ☊ never ☊
Her sole object in life is to become a travel writer. ☊ object ☊
Get pairs of students to act out the dialogue in front of the class. ☊ pair ☊
The early part of her life was spent in Paris. ☊ part ☊
The wedding marked the beginning of a new phase in Emma's life. ☊ phase ☊
This is the proudest moment of my life. ☊ proud ☊
race to do sth: Television companies are racing to be the first to screen his life story. ☊ race ☊
There were confrontations between local residents and the police. ☊ resident ☊
Up to a third of one's life is now being spent in retirement. ☊ retirement ☊
The murderer was given three life sentences, to run concurrently. ☊ run ☊
The police had secretly filmed the conversations. ☊ secretly ☊
spend sth in doing sth: Most of her life was spent in caring for others. ☊ spend ☊
People tend to work hard at this stage of life. ☊ stage ☊
They worked hard to give their children a good start in life. ☊ start ☊
She did not want to stay in nursing all her life. ☊ stay ☊
He told us the story of his life. ☊ story ☊
She knew surprisingly little about her sister's life. ☊ surprisingly ☊
It was the best day of my life. ☊ the ☊
He's never ventured abroad in his life. ☊ venture ☊
His best movie, which won several awards, was about the life of Gandhi. ☊ which ☊
The effects will last for the whole of his life. ☊ whole ☊
work for sth: She dedicated her life to working for peace. ☊ work ☊
The art collection was his life's work. ☊ work ☊