Example sentences of "[prep] his last years " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Thomas Wilson was first chairman of the Hull Underwriters Association , founded in 1867 , and spent much of his last years in various charitable enterprises . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In his last years at Repton he was happier . |
| 6 | ‘ The obscurity which enshrouds many earlier moments of his life becomes well-nigh impenetrable in his last years , ’ Mr Jones finds . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In his last years he lived in Wymondham and continued to preach in Wymondham Abbey and neighbouring parishes . |
| 10 | Sadly in his last years Markevitch was not the same man . |
| 11 | In his last years as News at Ten helmsman , he became a national joke-figure . |
| 12 | In his last years , Stalin lived almost entirely secluded from the public gaze . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As we shall find , this distinction lies at the root of Anselm 's movements in his last years as archbishop . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In his last years John Shakespeare was a happy man . |
| 18 | Always of weak constitution , he suffered progressively from blindness in his last years , and died a bachelor 14 March 1855 in Thurlby . |
| 19 | In his last years his health became impaired , and in 1965 he left his rooms in Nevile 's Court , with a fine Athena for a door knocker , for a set in the King 's Hostel , where there was a lift . |
| 20 | In his last years Ewing wintered in the warmth of Pollok House in Glasgow , still working with Erskine on theological projects . |
| 21 | By 1740 he was one of his father 's workmen and , according to the French astronomer Joseph de Lalande , writing in 1763 , his father was so infirm in his last years that it was he , Jeremiah , who actually made the large mural quadrants for Bologna , Paris , Pisa , and George Parker , second Earl of Macclesfield [ q.v . ] . |
| 22 | In his last years , Gresham 's fame as a magician drew him into the sordid court intrigues surrounding the divorce of Robert Devereux , third Earl of Essex [ q.v . ] . |
| 23 | His fame rests on the flurry of tracts he published in his last years , and little is known of his background . |
| 24 | In his last years he featured in a number of important legal cases , and also became the subject of a famous caricature drawn on a tallage roll of 1233 . |
| 25 | Enthroned in 1971 , in his last years he presided over the church 's rehabilitation by the Soviet authorities after decades of repression . |
| 26 | In reasserting his paternal authority , and finding his old political touch , Louis showed himself in his last years a conspicuous success . |
| 27 | In his last years Monet stumbled upon the exquisite notion that colour in itself could become the first subject for his art ; painting has never looked back/ |
| 28 | In his last years even Louis XIV was giving the Dutch republic the treatment in this respect which it demanded . |
| 29 | The Crown was in such a strong position in 1685 because Charles II , in his last years , had taken a stance in defence of the Church of England as by law established , and was able to exploit the anti-Nonconformist prejudices of the Anglicans . |
| 30 | ’ It was not until his last years that Stockmar enjoyed a real home life , though married in 1821 in Coburg to a cousin , Fanny Sommer , the daughter of a physician . |