Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] his [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although allowed to visit her husband only rarely during his twenty years in Spandau , she and her six children had never ceased to support him , and I was not surprised to hear that during their father 's absence all six had obtained university degrees . |
| 2 | The bouts of ill-health occasionally recorded ( they were always politically inconvenient ) became frequent only during his last years , but even then scarcely diminished the pace of a very active life . |
| 3 | He was a most successful Master , sending at least eleven boys on to Cambridge alone during his nine years in office . |
| 4 | He never really adjusted to peacetime routine , suffering much in his later years , as secretary to the Incorporated Law Society of Northern Ireland , from wartime injuries . |
| 5 | The striking exception among the super-egos is Professor Charles Handy , a modest and witty Irishman with a spiritual perspective which owes much to his four years as warden of St George 's House in Windsor Castle , a private study and conference centre in the UK concerned with ethics and values in society . |
| 6 | ’ It was not until his last years that Stockmar enjoyed a real home life , though married in 1821 in Coburg to a cousin , Fanny Sommer , the daughter of a physician . |
| 7 | The two other functions of a king he shirked : he did not lead his armies to war , anyway in his later years , and he did not provide an heir . |
| 8 | A MAN paralysed by a rare disease told yesterday of his three years trapped in his frozen body . |
| 9 | As stylish as ever despite his 51 years , Jeff King took charge with David Nicholson 's Dreamers Delight three furlongs out in the ‘ Golden Oldies ’ charity challenge . |
| 10 | The latest Sizewell A worker to die from leukaemia entered radiation areas only infrequently during his 18 years at the existing Magnox plant . |
| 11 | Entirely self-taught , his work , summed up in his Forty Years ’ Researches in British and Saxon Burial Mounds of East Yorkshire ( 1905 ) , was a masterpiece by any standard . |
| 12 | It is now clear — and , in view of the final lines of his letter of 2 June , it was sufficiently plain by then — that he was writing under great pressure : which up to his last years was the condition in which he produced most of his work , including some of his best . |
| 13 | The memoirs are extremely detailed , yet Hickey states that he wrote them almost entirely from memory , having only a few documents available to him and those mostly from his later years . |
| 14 | His celebrated ‘ secret ’ works , mainly from his early years , include a series of masochistic self-portraits , subjects in the terrible gear of subjugation and self-disgust , studies of penis and pistil , and move with astonishing art to consideration of the body ( usually seen only in part ) as a piece of classical relief . |
| 15 | Never before in his seventy-nine years had sovereign or consort accused him of enmity . |
| 16 | Roberts , the Second Master , was able to look back on his 35 years at School . |
| 17 | 's enthusiasm for virology went back to his postdoctoral years at The Rockefeller Institute where he was working under the tutelage of . |
| 18 | Grant clearly believed that education was a lifelong process and his commitment to maintaining his awareness , even during his advancing years , is a example to all professionals . |
| 19 | His pictures vary in style : in his later days he showed himself capable of the common sort of conventionally flattering portrait , but , particularly from his earlier years in London , there exists a body of work demonstrating his great talent for lively detail and natural rather than conventional compositions . |
| 20 | Without giving it much thought , we all assumed that after the present infatuations had cooled down , Andrew would marry Judith , but it never happened , although he did marry twice during his later years in Toronto . |
| 21 | Chicago-born , she was the first woman graduate of London School of Economics ; widely travelled , she lived ‘ a romantic life ’ , and nursed Woolley lovingly in his final years . |
| 22 | It is evident that he did live there in his later years as the Minutes of 1771 agree to provide his successor with lodgings in Chelsea , ‘ until such time as Mr. Miller has quit his apartments in the greenhouse ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ Yet in his six years here he has won two championship medals and made a big contribution . |
| 24 | Thus the priests were known in Hebrew as the Kohanim — the Cohens — and it is this name ( which Leonard later signified in his poetry by references to his ‘ blood ’ ) , which exerted most influence on Leonard , primarily in his formative years , but throughout his career — consciously and otherwise . |
| 25 | Sadly in his last years Markevitch was not the same man . |
| 26 | He lived quietly during his remaining years , dying on a visit to his Mercian possessions , probably in 710 . |