Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] last years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was not of that minority , but the argument sharpened my concern for the education of the most-talented pupils — a concern that was to run through my last years in Banbury and into my work in Oxford . |
| 2 | The paranoia which is evinced in the diaries of her last years at Clarence Gate Gardens is then partly justified , if she knew that such a course was being taken against her . |
| 3 | ‘ White spent much of his life balanced on the boundary between crankiness and brilliance , ’ continues Girouard ; ‘ in the end he fell off on the wrong side , and a large proportion of his last years were wasted in trying to prove that Shakespeare was Bacon . |
| 4 | His North African tale Santal appeared in 1921 , and The Flower Beneath the Foot , the first of the three major novels of his last years , in 1923 . |
| 5 | Thomas Wilson was first chairman of the Hull Underwriters Association , founded in 1867 , and spent much of his last years in various charitable enterprises . |
| 6 | Lassus was no less versatile in his Italian pieces : such classic madrigals as his early Petrarch settings — ‘ Occhi piangete ’ , ‘ Amor che ved' ogni pensier ’ — and the profoundly melancholy Lagrime di San Pietro of his last years , mentioned in the previous chapter ( p. 246 ) , and the delicious humour of the Villanelle , Moresche et altre canzoni ( Paris , 1581 ) which include his best-known songs : the Landsknecht 's serenade in Germanic Italian , ‘ Matonna mia cara ’ , and ‘ O la , o che bon eccho ! ’ in which two quartets sing in close canon throughout . |
| 7 | I have been a lifelong Labour supporter , but I have to say that under the present Government I was able to save in my last years at work without seeing my savings disappear in inflation . |
| 8 | The lives of both the Duke of Windsor and his spouse were rendered miserable in their last years by her quest , and his support for that quest , to be entitled to the description of ‘ Her Royal Highness ’ . |
| 9 | The use of these coaches was mainly on secondary services , then branch and local , and in a lot of cases in their last years as workmen 's , although 1622 's record makes no comment about this . |
| 10 | If inviting an elderly parent to come to live with you in your own home seems to be the best way of helping her in her last years , the first overtures you make to her on this subject need to be very tactful , bearing all the hallmarks of a really welcoming invitation . |
| 11 | Expectation about becoming queen helped give Sophia a powerful interest in her last years , but she was denied her chance , dying 8 June 1714 after hurrying to shelter from sudden rain during a walk in the palace gardens at Herrenhausen . |
| 12 | And another not strong in its last years in the 1970's , ( it finished in 1981 ) , this section was in its day extremely successful and important to the well-being of the senior club . |
| 13 | In 1879 Crookes sold the Quarterly Journal ; it lived on until 1885 , becoming in its last years a monthly-but it had never been a leading journal , and general scientific reviewing never caught on . |
| 14 | In its last years Aurae Phiala surely did mount a watch every night . |
| 15 | Your Committee has purchased an ex G.W.R. coach which some people believe to have run on the BCR in its last years before it went out of use . |
| 16 | Repayment in full of Romania 's foreign debt , which had peaked in the early 1980s at more than US$11,000 million , had been a priority of the Ceausescu regime in its last years and had been accomplished by April 1989 [ see p. 36622 ] . |
| 17 | Disgruntled young people who currently gain nothing positive from their last years at school should be allowed to opt for part-time work at the age of fourteen if they so wish . |
| 18 | In his last years at Repton he was happier . |
| 19 | ‘ The obscurity which enshrouds many earlier moments of his life becomes well-nigh impenetrable in his last years , ’ Mr Jones finds . |
| 20 | He had to sell Ebberston in 1848 , thanks to keeping too many racehorses and losing too many bets on them , and he died in London in 1866 , cared for in his last years by a kind and well-endowed lady friend called Elizabeth William . |
| 21 | On the particular afternoon to which I am referring , his lordship would still have been in his mid-fifties ; but as I recall , his hair had greyed entirely and his tall slender figure already bore signs of the stoop that was to become so pronounced in his last years . |
| 22 | In his last years he lived in Wymondham and continued to preach in Wymondham Abbey and neighbouring parishes . |
| 23 | Sadly in his last years Markevitch was not the same man . |
| 24 | In his last years as News at Ten helmsman , he became a national joke-figure . |
| 25 | In his last years , Stalin lived almost entirely secluded from the public gaze . |
| 26 | Leavis , a radical socialist before 1950 , turned briefly liberal before adopting in his last years a bitterly conservative stance that favoured no party of state , hating economic growth and the European Community , so that long before his death in 1978 his idealism had been soured by the varied spectacle of human folly ; but though always outside religion , he was in no way hostile to it , and admired its moral seriousness . |
| 27 | As we shall find , this distinction lies at the root of Anselm 's movements in his last years as archbishop . |
| 28 | His armies in his last years were partly feudal and partly mercenary , and his attempt to establish the principle of compulsory unpaid service had been decisively defeated . |
| 29 | In what he called " emphysema weather " , he did not venture out at all and in his last years one member of the firm , Peter du Sautoy , would report to him on the business being conducted — what books had been accepted , for example . |
| 30 | In his last years John Shakespeare was a happy man . |