Example sentences of "his [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | He continued in office until his death 7 July 1221 in his eighty-first year . |
| 2 | Masefield 's years in training on the Conway and his scant year at sea were among many experiences in his early life in which he pursued a quest for beauty , in nature and in man , a quest whose romantic zest was combined with a strong interest in technical matters , in the structure and working of everyday . |
| 3 | Eliot himself was now in his sixty-eighth year . |
| 4 | He ended 1984 , acknowledged as his greatest year , as the world No. 1 . |
| 5 | That 's certainly what the routine has given Josh and his 32 year wife Laura in just over four years the couple have had five children . |
| 6 | The Aga Khan , one of the sport 's leading owner-breeders , seems to have accepted that his three-and-a-half year challenge to the decision to disqualify Aliysa for failing a dope test after winning the 1989 Oaks has run its course . |
| 7 | It continues : in his nineteenth year … considering the uncertain term of human life , and the fearful end especially before the fleshly and the worldly , he took thought , by the inspiration of God , providently concerning himself ( remembering his end ) , lest he should be taken in the snares of sin . |
| 8 | Readers will be interested to know that Mr Mant , now in his 90th year , has also recently had published a book on the fall of Singapore in 1942 , another historic event to which he was witness . |
| 9 | A patchy collection , therefore , but largely acceptable , and a decent introduction to Rossini in his bicentenary year . |
| 10 | PC TOM COLLIAR from Chapelcross received commendation from chief of AEA Police , Hugh McMorris for long service and good conduct during his 22 year career . |
| 11 | One refers to his fourteenth year , a little later than the visit to Catherine at Jefferies farm , when he had changed greatly . |
| 12 | In his sixteenth year he had the confidence to begin to write descriptive nature essays for publication in journals and newspapers . |
| 13 | It destroyed him and for a time he was engulfed by a deep chasm of despair , drinking heavily , taking amphetamines and LSD — and he was in his sixteenth year of smoking marijuana . |
| 14 | We first meet Richard Faucenbois as a boy approaching his twelfth birthday in The Black Riders ; The Stormy Petrel and The House of the Paladin return to the boy at fourteen and fifteen , when he has already earned his nickname of the Stormy Petrel , and in The Betrayer he moves into his sixteenth year with agonising decisions to make ; in three later books ( Richard and the Golden Horseshoe , The Red Rose of Ruvina and The Secret of the White Peacock , he is in his mid-twenties and the chases and escapes of youth have been put aside for the role of diplomat and teacher . |
| 15 | Accompanied by his 12 year old son Philip , the Witney MP managed twenty lengths . |
| 16 | Inside , the capacity audience was respectful , admiring and a little anxious about a man in his 80th year . |
| 17 | Here in 1868 his uncle died in his 80th year universally mourned . |
| 18 | Out of all the many hundreds of 16th- and 17th-century wills that I have studied , his is the only one to include a reference to its writer 's age : its intimation that on 15 November 1622 he was in his 80th year allows 1992 or 1993 to be marked as the 450th anniversary of his birth . |
| 19 | Fred Thieler , born 1916 , fills the far wall with rust-coloured collages and last , but not least , and now in his 80th year , Emil Schumacher brings the show to a close with some equally vigorous work in the more subdued palette of brown and black . |
| 20 | Thirty-two year old David Casey and his 30 year old wife Jacqueline were accused at the Magistrates Court yesterday of conspiring with other people to cause an explosion likely to endanger life . |
| 21 | In his 35th year , he commenced the study of Hebrew and the Psalms became his favourite reading in that language . |
| 22 | In 1596 he published an edition of the Spanish version of Calvin 's Catechism ( 1559 ) , and one of the New Testament from the Spanish Bible of Basle ( 1569 ) , which was eventually followed by a revision of the whole Bible , printed in Amsterdam ( 1602 ) , and supervised there by Valera himself in his seventieth year . |
| 23 | According to Scott , Marshall was seventeen times lawfully married , and after his hundredth year was the avowed father of four illegitimate children . |
| 24 | satirical allusion to the outburst of poetical celebrations of Shakespeare in his tercentenary year of 1864 . |
| 25 | The Ben Hird Sword commemorates his seventy-two year association with the event , and is awarded for the greatest number of hits by a longbowman . |
| 26 | The concept of confidentiality was considered in the case of Thomas Marshall ( Exports ) Ltd. v Guinle [ 1976 ] , in which the defendant , who was the managing director of the plaintiff company , resigned half-way through his 10 year service contract to set up a rival business . |
| 27 | Omitting his radical change of direction ( i.e. of subject ) in his second year , it represents a demand of surrealist proportions , especially when one considers that alongside these he was reading French , Latin , Mathematics , Philosophy and History . |
| 28 | At dinner the undergraduate in his second year got on well with the ex-prime minister , which is a mark up to both sides . |
| 29 | Not long afterwards the Liberal Party invited this undergraduate in his second year to be the party 's candidate for the county of Cambridgeshire in the next election . |
| 30 | In the midst of his second year he was sent off to the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth , for a crash course in everything Welsh prior to his investiture as Prince of Wales in the summer of 1969 . |