Example sentences of "[be] in [pron] [adj] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | when you get and what have you in then the officers , I mean I know they 're in their twenties when they get larking about and what have you I do n't like it . |
| 2 | Controls , however , are in themselves useless unless they trigger an appropriate response to permit changes to be made . |
| 3 | We did n't want to sell the house , but we 're both in our sixties and by the time the work is completed we 'll be in our seventies so we just have to bail out now . |
| 4 | ‘ Moira was in her twenties when she decided to search for her mother . |
| 5 | I was in my forties when I met him — call it middle-aged madness if you like — but he was so kind and thoughtful . |
| 6 | But I did use and re-invent the world of the Barracks I grew up in , yet the point is that I was in my 20s when I wrote that book and it was viewed through the persona of a dying woman . |
| 7 | The evidence of the available texts and manuscripts is against such an emendation , however , since none of them has such a reading ; and it seems more likely that Ibn Hajar means no more than that Molla Fenari was in his twenties when he made the journey to Egypt . |
| 8 | Ken was in his forties when he was first found to have high blood-pressure . |