Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] year [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my early years I did n't differentiate between one kind of science and another . |
| 2 | In my nineteen years I 've had three women , a nervous breakdown and some poor education . |
| 3 | Well in my second year I coxed one of the women 's university boats against well underneath the famous Sue Brown . |
| 4 | In my second year I did n't do very much work , but I did lots of acting and directing . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In my sixth year I did make myself a smaller canoe , but I did not try to escape in it . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At the end of my final year I stood as a sabbatical officer for the Union . |
| 10 | In my third year I learned to adore the man ; he can virtually do what he likes and I 'll still adore him . |
| 11 | In her teenage years she had thought it out carefully . |
| 12 | In her early years it met three days a week , but in the final decades was meeting on six or seven . |
| 13 | In her early years she helped to start the Girl Guide movement in Swansea and London . |
| 14 | As the JMU random visit programme goes into its second year we need to find better ways of isolating the representative results from those of the reactive , com-plaint-led , visits , and learn to interpret them statistically to build up a reliable picture of the auditing profession , its strengths and weaknesses . |
| 15 | But as the joint venture , a marriage between Courtaulds ' acetate filament yarn operation and SNIA Fibre , enters its second year it does so with its market share — about 70 per cent in Europe — intact . |
| 16 | In their later years they joined forces , and there is a photograph showing them together excavating one of the ‘ Danes ’ graves ' in 1898 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In its later years it came into the hands of the Wilkins family . |
| 19 | In all her ten years she had always had one or other of her brothers watching out for her . |
| 20 | After its first year it had the widest appeal of any soap opera . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In her first year she had one of those rare teachers who notices children and treats each one differently . |
| 24 | After the War she became Captain from 1948 to 1950 in which final year she won the County Championship . |
| 25 | We already run the N C V O corporate affiliation scheme , which next year we plan to expand and develop , and we 've just launched L A Link , a new subscription service for local authorities , providing advice and information on the development of partnership , and there 's an exhibition about this in the concourse . |
| 26 | In her last year she shared a flat with a 70-year-old mother-of-seven from Wales , who was doing history finals . |
| 27 | During her last year she joined the Voluntary Service Unit and visited an old lady in Sevenoaks once a week . |
| 28 | 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 ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |