1.   All her life had been spent surrounded by grimy bricks with hardly a green grass blade in sight.

2.   Dad spent his life building up this business.

3.   For more than a Decade, the farming kibbutz where Avishi Grossman spent his life has struggled under a huge debt.

4.   He had spent his life designing inoffensive wallpaper, he realised, and he was not really ashamed of that.

5.   He has spent his life campaigning for free trade unionism and free votes.

6.   He spent his life defending the Catholic faith against heresy.

7.   I seemed to spend my life running errands for people.

8.   I spend my life clearing up after the children.

9.   I spent my life making such moments in men.

10.   Koju was an illiterate villager who had spent his life in the desert ploughing dust with oxen.