Example sentences of "[pers pn] was in [pos pn] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told him I was in my first year and that my curriculum to date had been based around mastering the basics of Swahili , its grammar , basic vocabulary and syntax . |
| 2 | I should add here that even as a junior at Halton I was in the senior cross-country team — which only people in their very last year were normally eligible to join and at this stage I was in my first year of three , I was allowed to go out on any occasion , in running gear , to train as I was a bona fide member of the team and so on one of these occasions when I was out training — I always wore a sort of towel around my neck which looked very professional at the time and quite unnecessary — I managed to conceal the altimeter , which had become very very hot property by this time because it was known that several instruments were missing and we could have a visit from the gendarme . |
| 3 | I was in my first year at Bedford . |
| 4 | ‘ I first heard about the race while I was in my first term at Exeter University , ’ she told ACCOUNTANCY . |
| 5 | Then a few days later we had opening night , and I was in my first tuxedo . |
| 6 | With regard to the second patient , recent correspondence with her general practitioner reveals that she initially developed intermittent leftsided headache and right hypoaesthesia without motor signs 3 years ago when she was in her first pregnancy . |
| 7 | ( In fact , by the time the book actually appeared , she was in her last year of school . ) |
| 8 | However , it was in her fourth novel , A Wreath of Roses ( 1949 ) , that Elizabeth really arrived . |
| 9 | He was in my he was in my last form . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He was in his forty-first year when he entered the House of Commons , six months over the watershed which Joseph Chamberlain , thirty years before , had thought was the limit if a fully effective parliamentary career was not to be precluded . |