Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] years [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | In her teenage years she had thought it out carefully . |
| 5 | In her early years it met three days a week , but in the final decades was meeting on six or seven . |
| 6 | In her early years she helped to start the Girl Guide movement in Swansea and London . |
| 7 | In their later years they joined forces , and there is a photograph showing them together excavating one of the ‘ Danes ’ graves ' in 1898 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In its later years it came into the hands of the Wilkins family . |
| 10 | In all her ten years she had always had one or other of her brothers watching out for her . |
| 11 | In his early years he sailed in the ships of the Dieppe armateur , Jean Ango . |
| 12 | In his early years he appeared in concert parties . |
| 13 | In his later years he recalled with pride the opportunity it gave him to lecture such eminent men as Sir Henry Stanley on the correct procedure for expedition photography . |
| 14 | In his later years he took to gardening again . |
| 15 | During his later years he practised law in London and on the Northern circuit . |
| 16 | In his later years he suffered ill health and his work was curtailed . |
| 17 | In his later years he suffered from occasional bouts of insanity . |
| 18 | In his later years he became a student of Egyptology , and was also a connoisseur who amassed a fine collection of medieval manuscripts and monastic seals . |
| 19 | He was elected a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1875 ; in his later years he wrote three papers on the Severn tunnel , one on ‘ arches ’ , and one on the disposal of sewage . |
| 20 | Smith suffered periodically from gout — in 1720 he wrote that the drawing of a sketch ‘ at this time has occasioned me to make many a wry face by reason I could neither sit nor stand to do it ’ — and in his later years he put on weight : ‘ It is unlucky that Mr. Smith is grown so unweildy , ’ commented Dr George Clarke [ q.v. ] of All Souls College , Oxford , in 1730 . |
| 21 | But in his later years he did n't come into the smithy until after breakfast . |
| 22 | In all his sixty years he had bought , sold , bred , and trained some hundreds of horses . |
| 23 | In his latter years he took little day-to-day interest in racing , but was seen as an elder statesman of the turf . |
| 24 | Hogarth also lived there , but he was often at his business address in Leicester Fields , and in his latter years he became ‘ Sergeant Painter ’ to the King . |
| 25 | Even in India , where Owen had served before he came to Egypt , and where in his latter years he had been seconded from his regiment to an Intelligence post on the Frontier , it had been normal practice to purchase information . |
| 26 | In his latter years he created an elaborate water garden at the cottage ornée he had built for himself on the outskirts of Plymouth , and was wont to drive round the streets of the town in a gig disguised as a Roman war chariot , looking , in Wightwick 's words ‘ ( as far as his true English face and costume allowed ) like Ictinus of the Parthenon , ‘ out for a lark ’ . ’ |
| 27 | In his first years he developed his interests in stratigraphy of the Chalk and in Pleistocene and Recent deposits , before he was transferred to the Lake District . |
| 28 | From his earliest years he showed exceptional ability in mechanics and a natural talent for engineering , which his mother in particular did much to foster . |
| 29 | In his final years he witnessed the introduction of vaccination ( 1798 ) and the rejection of inoculation by the majority of doctors . |
| 30 | In his final years he tried to revive his career in an American television series about martial arts called The Master ( 1986 ) but it failed and another series never got beyond the pilot stage . |