Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not get a grant for my preclinical years so I worked half time in research for two years . |
| 2 | A thousand needs that I 've spent most of my teenage years pretending do n't exist , and when they 've made themselves felt , so strongly that I ca n't fail to be aware of them , I 've crushed them , trying to control my appetite and cravings in every way that I know , fighting a pointless and endless war against myself . |
| 3 | It was not until my teenage years that my notions of which history was mine began to be complicated . |
| 4 | When I was 15 , my handicap was 1 , so in my teenage years sport was my main thing and the guitar was a hobby . |
| 5 | In my early years , I set out to find a roster of acts who I would represent . |
| 6 | He was one of the most interesting men I worked with in my early years . |
| 7 | The woman Rebecca , my father 's childless and rejected wife , haunts my early years . |
| 8 | ‘ I have to admit , ’ he began , speaking quite slowly , ‘ that my early years at secondary school were not of the happiest . |
| 9 | Of course I did study quite a bit of Chopin in my early years , and there was a brief ‘ middle period ’ during which I played one recital in Vienna consisting entirely of Chopin Polonaises and Liszt Rhapsodies ! |
| 10 | I did some composing in my early years , so I have gained some modest experience of how a piece should hang together , and how it should be carried from the first note to the last . |
| 11 | ‘ Through my early years , I always did a lot of running and I came to the conclusion that that was the reason for my injuries . |
| 12 | As Emerson 's father , Wilson Sr , is a journalist , I got to know him quite well in my early years in the sport . |
| 13 | Cholera epidemics happened regularly in my early years , when the filth from one village would be thrown into the river and water drawn from the same river for the villages downstream . |
| 14 | There were two colleges in the university , one a government institution with very able staff , mainly European in my early years , and the other Judson College , founded and maintained by the American Baptist Church which was the biggest Church in Burma . |
| 15 | This followed the technique of the book which had helped me most in my early years — R. Grant Brown 's Half the Battle in Burmese . |
| 16 | My early years at the school were , then , a mixture of deception ( on my part ) and the fear of humiliation . |
| 17 | In my early years here , I had a small group of friends from home who were also studying or nursing . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , we seldom considered , in my early years with the company , the effect on a wife 's career if we asked a manager of promise to move to another part of the country . |
| 19 | Looking back I am constantly amazed and grateful for the high risks that others took by giving me responsibility in my early years in ICI . |
| 20 | In my early years I did n't differentiate between one kind of science and another . |
| 21 | During my early years at Lancaster , much of my time was spent in the collaboration with , , and on GCE . |
| 22 | And now that I am inclined to hear time 's winged chariot hovering near , and see deserts of vast eternity not too far ahead , I am determined to make the most of my remaining years both in my secluded garden and on my open-space allotment . |
| 23 | But it was as I got into my teenaged years I began to get bored with my walk on roles , sitting around for hours waiting to go on with make-up and costumes on was no fun any more , but I was far too young to do anything else but walk on say a few lines and walk off again . |
| 24 | I do n't think that could happen to me now , in the way that it did in my formative years . |
| 25 | In my formative years , Sam was my idol . |
| 26 | To my mind this is based on the proportion , or degree of influence in relation to my formative years . |
| 27 | ‘ I spent all my formative years there . ’ |
| 28 | During my inglorious years as a concert agent I used to reduce my clients to tears by stubbornly refusing to call them ‘ artistes ’ . |
| 29 | To decide , I require not only facts but awareness of how it is likely to feel passing my declining years in that village , and for that I must try to achieve independence of my personal and present viewpoint , reduce it to equality with other viewpoints . |
| 30 | I fell into one of those drooly , head-lolling dozes that seem to be more and more a feature of my advancing years . |