Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] year [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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1 | In my early years I did n't differentiate between one kind of science and another . |
2 | Well in my second year I coxed one of the women 's university boats against well underneath the famous Sue Brown . |
3 | In my second year I did n't do very much work , but I did lots of acting and directing . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | In my sixth year I did make myself a smaller canoe , but I did not try to escape in it . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | At the end of my final year I stood as a sabbatical officer for the Union . |
9 | In my third year I learned to adore the man ; he can virtually do what he likes and I 'll still adore him . |
10 | In her teenage years she had thought it out carefully . |
11 | In her early years it met three days a week , but in the final decades was meeting on six or seven . |
12 | In her early years she helped to start the Girl Guide movement in Swansea and London . |
13 | In their later years they joined forces , and there is a photograph showing them together excavating one of the ‘ Danes ’ graves ' in 1898 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | In its later years it came into the hands of the Wilkins family . |
16 | In all her ten years she had always had one or other of her brothers watching out for her . |
17 | After its first year it had the widest appeal of any soap opera . |
18 | 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 ) . |
19 | In its first year it provided training opportunities for more than 4,500 people and invested in a wide range of small and medium-sized businesses . |
20 | In her first year she had one of those rare teachers who notices children and treats each one differently . |
21 | After the War she became Captain from 1948 to 1950 in which final year she won the County Championship . |
22 | In her last year she shared a flat with a 70-year-old mother-of-seven from Wales , who was doing history finals . |
23 | During her last year she joined the Voluntary Service Unit and visited an old lady in Sevenoaks once a week . |
24 | In my report to you last year I attempted to answer the question ‘ What is Wood Group 's culture and the secret of our success ? ’ |
25 | ‘ Even when I decided to go back with him last year I found out again how stubborn he could be , but now everything 's changed for the better . ’ |
26 | He did play really well in the Championship year but any time I saw him last year he seemed to be nervous on the ball , surely not a good thing for a Centre Half . |
27 | In his sixteenth year he had the confidence to begin to write descriptive nature essays for publication in journals and newspapers . |
28 | to do Aladdin so when she thought she 'd do it this year she wanted me for Aladdin . |
29 | In his early years he sailed in the ships of the Dieppe armateur , Jean Ango . |
30 | In his early years he appeared in concert parties . |