Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adj] years [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 In my early years I did n't differentiate between one kind of science and another .
3 In her early years it met three days a week , but in the final decades was meeting on six or seven .
4 In her early years she helped to start the Girl Guide movement in Swansea and London .
5 In her teenage years she had thought it out carefully .
6 In his final years he witnessed the introduction of vaccination ( 1798 ) and the rejection of inoculation by the majority of doctors .
7 In his final years he tried to revive his career in an American television series about martial arts called The Master ( 1986 ) but it failed and another series never got beyond the pilot stage .
8 In his early years he sailed in the ships of the Dieppe armateur , Jean Ango .
9 In his early years he appeared in concert parties .
10 By his middle years he had published little , and the ideas for which he is remembered did not begin to develop until then .
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