Example sentences of "[prep] his [adj] year [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | In the midst of his second year he was sent off to the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth , for a crash course in everything Welsh prior to his investiture as Prince of Wales in the summer of 1969 . |
2 | By the end of his first year he 'll be light-haired , but it will change again so that in maturity he 'll be quite definitely dark . |
3 | Then at the end of his third year it all went wrong . |
4 | Within his first year he was implementing cuts of twenty million pounds . |
5 | In his final year he took the part of Hotspur in the school production of Henry IV Part 1 and had the audience cheering at his rabble-rousing speeches . |
6 | In his second year he was already marking the Greek essays of first-year students and giving them some classes , in order to raise money . |
7 | In his second year it dawned on him that he and his friends were the cleverest young men in the world . |
8 | In his third year he was — briefly — editor of the university paper , Palatinate . |
9 | In his sixteenth year he had the confidence to begin to write descriptive nature essays for publication in journals and newspapers . |