Example sentences of "be in [pron] [adj] when [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 ‘ Moira was in her twenties when she decided to search for her mother .
3 I was in my forties when I met him — call it middle-aged madness if you like — but he was so kind and thoughtful .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Ken was in his forties when he was first found to have high blood-pressure .
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