Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] year [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My next effort was a ‘ coffee table ’ book on English Sporting Prints , also out of print , and , in my hundredth year I am trying to complete a Catalogue of English Sporting Prints c.1750–1880 , promised twenty years ago . |
| 2 | In my early years I did n't differentiate between one kind of science and another . |
| 3 | In my nineteen years I 've had three women , a nervous breakdown and some poor education . |
| 4 | This has happened before and no matter what people say I think in my second year we were about 16th or 17th . ’ |
| 5 | In my second year I did n't do very much work , but I did lots of acting and directing . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Well in my second year I coxed one of the women 's university boats against well underneath the famous Sue Brown . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In my sixth year I did make myself a smaller canoe , but I did not try to escape in it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | At the end of my final year I stood as a sabbatical officer for the Union . |
| 12 | In my third year I learned to adore the man ; he can virtually do what he likes and I 'll still adore him . |
| 13 | I have always got up early and even now in my 75th year I can hunt , climb mountains and cover an 8 ‘ ft ‘ by 4 ‘ ft ‘ canvas in one day . |
| 14 | Towards the end of my last year I was called by Bishop Knight and asked where I would like to serve . |
| 15 | In her teenage years she had thought it out carefully . |
| 16 | As all these , including buddleia , flower in their second year they soon supply more seeds to the young sward . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , there were so many restrictions — and charges were so high — that in their early years they never really took off . |
| 18 | In its early years it was called the Ulster Saturday Night , but this was soon extended to its present title Ireland 's Saturday Night . |
| 19 | In her early years it met three days a week , but in the final decades was meeting on six or seven . |
| 20 | In her early years she helped to start the Girl Guide movement in Swansea and London . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But as the joint venture , a marriage between Courtaulds ' acetate filament yarn operation and SNIA Fibre , enters its second year it does so with its market share — about 70 per cent in Europe — intact . |
| 23 | In their later years they joined forces , and there is a photograph showing them together excavating one of the ‘ Danes ’ graves ' in 1898 . |
| 24 | During her later years she was never visible till mid-day , by which time she would , in an upstairs drawing-room , be found occupying a cushionless chair at a large central table ; with a glass of port at her right hand and a volume of sermons at her left . |
| 25 | In her later years she never missed a hymn session on television or radio . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In its later years it came into the hands of the Wilkins family . |
| 28 | In all her ten years she had always had one or other of her brothers watching out for her . |
| 29 | After its first year it had the widest appeal of any soap opera . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |