His life proceeds forward, for him; it just seems backward to us.
Your life proceeded and you did not even miss him.
Her life would have proceeded exactly as she imagined.
She had twenty minutes to decide how her life would proceed.
Today, life in Coalville proceeds at a pace established long ago.
Outside the camp's markets, life proceeded as it has for months.
He's not like other miracle workers who do amazing things and then life proceeds as it always has.
For most of them, life proceeded about as usual.
And the sooner you do it the better because as our lives proceed we have more to lose.
But around the island, life proceeded at a more basic level.