Example sentences of "[coord] in [pos pn] [adj] year [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Eleanor too had to travel a great deal , and in his earliest years it was almost certainly Richard 's nurse who provided love and security on a day-to-day basis . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Smith suffered periodically from gout — in 1720 he wrote that the drawing of a sketch ‘ at this time has occasioned me to make many a wry face by reason I could neither sit nor stand to do it ’ — and in his later years he put on weight : ‘ It is unlucky that Mr. Smith is grown so unweildy , ’ commented Dr George Clarke [ q.v. ] of All Souls College , Oxford , in 1730 . |
| 4 | In her first year , it took her a day or two to settle down to London , but in her last year she was there the moment she stepped on the train . |
| 5 | But in his later years he did n't come into the smithy until after breakfast . |