Example sentences of "[pron] in his [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has in fact got a job , now his father mentions it , and an astonishingly good one , too , for someone in his first year down from university . |
| 2 | In reasserting his paternal authority , and finding his old political touch , Louis showed himself in his last years a conspicuous success . |
| 3 | In 1596 he published an edition of the Spanish version of Calvin 's Catechism ( 1559 ) , and one of the New Testament from the Spanish Bible of Basle ( 1569 ) , which was eventually followed by a revision of the whole Bible , printed in Amsterdam ( 1602 ) , and supervised there by Valera himself in his seventieth year . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Of the many people involved , three in particular stand out — Andreas Prindl FCIB , Chairman of the Institute 's Eastern European Working Party ; Alan Dearden FCIB , a Know Fund consultant , who in his first year organised over 1,000 weeks of banking training ; and Jack Storer OBE , Hon FCIB , who was in the New Year 's Honours List . |
| 6 | Nothing in his many years ' service had prepared him for this sort of situation . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Preserving the union ’ has become the president 's first priority : a ‘ sacred cause ’ , he called it in his new year 's message . |
| 12 | That would have been something he was very familiar with , having done it in his early years and worked so long with horses since . |
| 13 | I do n't think he did anything in his later years did he ? |