Example sentences of "in [pos pn] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember Jefferson — that very bright man in my year ? |
| 2 | One colourful character in my year said to her class of eleven-year-olds , ‘ I 'm on trial for my life , so mind you behave yourselves ! ’ |
| 3 | Most of the girls in my year , though not necessarily my friends , were leaving school at the end of the term . |
| 4 | I was seventeen , and most of the other students in my year had done military service and were a lot older . |
| 5 | ‘ There 's this laddie in my year , he canna read or write and the teachers pick on him , except Mr X , he 's good and disnae make a fool o ’ him and helps him wi' forms and things . |
| 6 | Unfortunately not , the only two that I knew were Al ( Byrne ) and Kev Daly ( Who also played in the youth FA cup final ) Because I went to school with them — they were both 2 years below me but Al 's brother was in my year and Kev went out with a girl who sat in front of me . |
| 7 | not really not in my year group . |
| 8 | I was , however , pleased in my year to be associated with many papers and reports put out by their working parties : to government , select committees , special interest groups and to the national and transport media . |
| 9 | You can do but only in my year . |
| 10 | It is idle to speculate on the source of leaks — that I did learn in my years in Government — but what was certain was that the Telegraph story could not have appeared at a worse time . |
| 11 | In my years as a professional warrener , in the days when gin traps were permissible , I used to expect an almost daily kill of ground predators while trapping burrow systems . |
| 12 | It was one of the least gracious occasions I recall in my years in motor racing . |
| 13 | Even among perhaps a hundred girls in their year , they must have known each other quite well . |
| 14 | Congregationalists , for example , noted in their Year Books from 1898 to 1901 that they had installed 144 new organs ; as early as 1873 William Shepherdson , a Member of the College of Organists , reminded Nonconformists that a hundred years before , organs ‘ were beyond the reach of small Churches , while as to Chapels … the placing of an organ … would have been regarded as an act of profanation . ’ |
| 15 | I decided to talk to the teachers in their year groups to elicit their personal views of questioning . |
| 16 | Teachers in their subjects and teachers in their year groups reviewed these assessments ; all reached the head and his deputies . |
| 17 | Since then my ( now ex- ) girlfriend was really good mates with the two of them cos she was in their year ( Yes I know I 'm a paedophile ) so that was how I got to go to their 18th birthday parties and Al 's leaving do . |
| 18 | Or do they admit that the Rural Scheme is simply a rate-paid organisation to amuse well-educated people in their years of retirement . |
| 19 | Well , if you were looking for the qualities Elinor had displayed in their years together , you could probably only have done better by marrying a man-eating tiger . |
| 20 | Since the introduction of A levels , English , Welsh , and Northern Irish schools , unlike schools in Scotland , Europe , or America , have expected pupils to study at most three examinable subjects in their years in the sixth form , these three being generally either all arts or all science subjects , though mathematics has been found commonly on either side of the divide . |
| 21 | Some years ago The Sunday Times invited parents ( representing a wide range of social backgrounds ) to list the things which they felt to be significant for their children in their years of primary schooling . |
| 22 | When she first arrived at SIS as a student , Anne had an affair with some chap in her year and when it broke up , she decided she wanted to leave . |
| 23 | Joanna had never missed a class in her year at the centre and was never late . |
| 24 | There , her bright and bubbly personality had ensured that she was one of the most popular girls in her year . |
| 25 | Not even very kind , very polite young men in her year at art school had so much as thawed one tiny corner of her iced-up emotions . |
| 26 | A tall lady in dark blue velvet , with a string of agates round her neck and a golden diadem in her hair ; a lady Isabella had never seen before in her year at the court of Gwynedd . |
| 27 | Cecilia has done well — she is now on a polytechnic degree course — but nothing in her years in care prepared her for independent living . |
| 28 | If she had been a religious person she would have put it down to retribution for her sins , but she had lost whatever faith she had had in her years as the Madam of Dublin 's most fashionable brothel . |
| 29 | In her years in the brothels in Dublin , she had seen far too many girls with their bodies twisted and scarred by the constricting corsets . |
| 30 | In her years working with the Madam and then running her brothel she had come to know many , and she could usually spot their type . |