1.   Perhaps life was flashing by like a tape player speeded up.

2.   Bob Dole won the election, but narrowly, and not before he had watched his political life flash before his eyes.

3.   Adrian Martinez was at home the other night, when he saw his life flash in front of him.

4.   My life flashed before my eyes.

5.   She has a stroke, and as her life flashes before her eyes, she reviews many of her own hopes and disappointments.

6.   Each time, my life had flashed before my eyes before I made a beeline for the shore.

7.   My life flashes before me.

8.   There are some dull stretches, however, and a mawkish climactic scene in which a dying Tabor watches his entire life flash before his eyes.