Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [adj] year [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first it amused me ; after my first year it drove me to distraction ; in my second year I learned to take a novel with me to work and , with a bit of luck , get through it in a two-day shoot . |
| 2 | After its first year it had the widest appeal of any soap opera . |
| 3 | During her last year she joined the Voluntary Service Unit and visited an old lady in Sevenoaks once a week . |
| 4 | At the end of my final year I stood as a sabbatical officer for the Union . |
| 5 | Although to someone of your tender years I suppose I do seem quite old and decrepit . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As the JMU random visit programme goes into its second year we need to find better ways of isolating the representative results from those of the reactive , com-plaint-led , visits , and learn to interpret them statistically to build up a reliable picture of the auditing profession , its strengths and weaknesses . |
| 8 | And even when you got into your second years you did get erm two hours off one day and three hours the next , which was usually five till eight . |
| 9 | Well in my second year I coxed one of the women 's university boats against well underneath the famous Sue Brown . |
| 10 | In my second year I did n't do very much work , but I did lots of acting and directing . |
| 11 | At first it amused me ; after my first year it drove me to distraction ; in my second year I learned to take a novel with me to work and , with a bit of luck , get through it in a two-day shoot . |
| 12 | In my early years I did n't differentiate between one kind of science and another . |
| 13 | In my nineteen years I 've had three women , a nervous breakdown and some poor education . |
| 14 | In my sixth year I did make myself a smaller canoe , but I did not try to escape in it . |
| 15 | In my third year I learned to adore the man ; he can virtually do what he likes and I 'll still adore him . |
| 16 | In their later years they joined forces , and there is a photograph showing them together excavating one of the ‘ Danes ’ graves ' in 1898 . |
| 17 | In her first year she had one of those rare teachers who notices children and treats each one differently . |
| 18 | In her early years it met three days a week , but in the final decades was meeting on six or seven . |
| 19 | In her early years she helped to start the Girl Guide movement in Swansea and London . |
| 20 | In her teenage years she had thought it out carefully . |
| 21 | Even in her later years she worked on film and television projects as well as with a US daily radio commentary , The Best Years , consisting of homely reminiscences about the elderly . |
| 22 | In her last year she shared a flat with a 70-year-old mother-of-seven from Wales , who was doing history finals . |
| 23 | In its first year it had provided funding totalling ECU621,000,000 for 20 projects in central and eastern Europe , for which an overall total of ECU2,100 million of investment was made ( ECU1=US$1.24065 as at March 30 , 1992 ) . |
| 24 | In its first year it provided training opportunities for more than 4,500 people and invested in a wide range of small and medium-sized businesses . |
| 25 | In its later years it came into the hands of the Wilkins family . |
| 26 | In his first years he developed his interests in stratigraphy of the Chalk and in Pleistocene and Recent deposits , before he was transferred to the Lake District . |
| 27 | Even in India , where Owen had served before he came to Egypt , and where in his latter years he had been seconded from his regiment to an Intelligence post on the Frontier , it had been normal practice to purchase information . |
| 28 | Hogarth also lived there , but he was often at his business address in Leicester Fields , and in his latter years he became ‘ Sergeant Painter ’ to the King . |
| 29 | In his latter years he took little day-to-day interest in racing , but was seen as an elder statesman of the turf . |
| 30 | In his latter years he created an elaborate water garden at the cottage ornée he had built for himself on the outskirts of Plymouth , and was wont to drive round the streets of the town in a gig disguised as a Roman war chariot , looking , in Wightwick 's words ‘ ( as far as his true English face and costume allowed ) like Ictinus of the Parthenon , ‘ out for a lark ’ . ’ |