Example sentences of "[pron] in his [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | In reasserting his paternal authority , and finding his old political touch , Louis showed himself in his last years a conspicuous success . |
| 2 | Mr Wright has been responsibly critical , having served his apprenticeship under John Woodcock , his predecessor , who in his six years ( 1980–86 ) brought to the editorship an authority it had not enjoyed since the great Sidney Pardon . |
| 3 | Nothing in his many years ' service had prepared him for this sort of situation . |
| 4 | If there ever was a body , Henry Hippisley took the secret to his grave — oblivious of the rumour and revilement that surrounded him in his final years — and fortunately for him , died of natural causes . |
| 5 | Inevitably his mother nursed and protected him in his early years , and this was the basis of a deep , perhaps inordinately and unhealthily deep , attachment of son to mother . |
| 6 | Everyone who raced against him in his good years says roughly the same thing : as a driver , Emerson was enormously consistent , not especially aggressive , very thoughtful and possessed of an excellent racing technique , the source of which was undoubtedly a long apprenticeship spent in motor-cycle racing , karting , Formula Vee , in Renault Gordinis , sports-car racing and so on . |
| 7 | Between exercises he tried to keep his mind occupied in a number of ways : reciting every poem he could ever remember , pretending to dictate his autobiography to an invisible stenographer so that he could go over everything that had ever happened to him in his twenty-one years . |
| 8 | That would have been something he was very familiar with , having done it in his early years and worked so long with horses since . |
| 9 | I do n't think he did anything in his later years did he ? |