Example sentences of "[adj] years [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know that the teenage years I describe are years when feelings about your self-image are more intense than any other , and I wanted to give young women themselves the chance to express what these feelings are . |
| 2 | During my son 's teenage years he spent his life like a hobo , sleeping-bag packed into his satchel in case he wanted to doss down on a schoolfriend 's floor somewhere . |
| 3 | In her teenage years she had thought it out carefully . |
| 4 | How appropriate , how impressive : ‘ From light years they arrived , to feel the pulse of everyone around . |
| 5 | In those Whig-dominated years he found that England was preponderantly not Whig but Tory ; he found that a corruption-wielding establishment could win elections only in the , numerically preponderant , boroughs and even then only at the cost of an enormously expensive patronage machine . |
| 6 | In the following years he began to propound diffusionism , the doctrine that cultural traits were not independently invented but carried from one area to another . |
| 7 | The war had proved Dobbie 's exceptional ability as a staff officer and for nine of the ten following years he served in staff appointments in the Rhine Army , Aldershot , the War Office , and Western Command . |
| 8 | In the following years he took the diploma of ARCS and B.Sc. |
| 9 | In the early years they manufactured and supplied both hand and machine knitting yarns in natural fibres , principally wool and mohair . |
| 10 | In his early years he sailed in the ships of the Dieppe armateur , Jean Ango . |
| 11 | In his early years he appeared in concert parties . |
| 12 | In the early years I spent every Sunday bashing rhododendrons — it was like being a nineteenth-century explorer . |
| 13 | In my early years I did n't differentiate between one kind of science and another . |
| 14 | She did n't spend very much on herself , she spent on houses , and during those early years she entertained — people lived differently , you know , dinner-parties for English visitors , musical parties , charity affairs ; and she spent a lot on other people , on her new family and the poor . |
| 15 | In her early years she helped to start the Girl Guide movement in Swansea and London . |
| 16 | In her early years it met three days a week , but in the final decades was meeting on six or seven . |
| 17 | It employs 1,000 people now , just as it did in 1981 , but in the intervening years it has had to take on far more duties — most notably the upkeep of its building which was looked after by the government from 1816 to 1988 . |
| 18 | In the intervening years I allowed myself to be gradually undermined and finally succeeded in losing most outward traces of my cultural identity . |
| 19 | I bought a little farm near Oakville some years ago at four thousand an acre … sold it two years ago at fifteen thousand an acre … was n't that lucky ! … after all the hard-up years I lived through … almost starving at times … it was Mr Workman who gave me your address for this letter … poor old Fred … he 's getting old like the rest of us … |
| 20 | The upshot of the matter was that although the Butcher had an account for 30 odd years they did not think him worthy of an invite . |
| 21 | ‘ And four of those bloody years I spend in a bloody prison-camp — if you 'll pardon the expression . |
| 22 | He loved me , and I loved him — we were everything to each other , those brief years we had . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Now the Marais Poitevin is a pleasantly low-profile tourist attraction where you can take canal-boat trips from villages that have hardly changed in the 15-odd years I 've known them : Maillezais , with a huge and rather dull ruined abbey , and Coulon , where I first ate the delicious local version of moules marinieres called mouclade . |
| 25 | The pattern of press reporting of rape trials is quite different in 1985 from the previous years we had studied — 1951 , 1961 , 1971 and 1978 . |
| 26 | We have included in our proposal this year twenty thousand revenue effects of a hundred thousand pounds capital bid on traffic calming and other similar measures , something which is very popular around the city , as long as you ask people what they want first and which in previous years we put forward as a revenue bid . |
| 27 | In previous years he had forbidden staff to bring their own booze ‘ so as to avoid making an invidious distinction ’ . |
| 28 | In previous years I have n't had a class on the and I thought I had one this year as an experiment and er , pardon me just a second hello yes , that was a little annoying to say the least , cos those students have come in specially for that , yeah , yeah yeah yeah yeah right Oh dear right certainly not well , would it be easier to show them in my office , that 's seven , seven , seven ? |
| 29 | And for several myopic , workaholic years I 've believed they were still white , have n't I ? |
| 30 | And of late years it has been used by the inhabitants of Virginia in many disorders , which are occasioned by thick , sizy blood ; so that the root of this plant , when its virtues are fully known , may become one of the most useful medicines yet discovered . |