Example sentences of "[verb] in [pron] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | He believes Docherty perceived Morgan as a threat to his power base and a player who had the raw potential to rise to the status that George Best had enjoyed in his early years at Old Trafford . |
| 2 | Obedience is part of the maker 's instructions , and there is no guaranteed success without it ; for obedience is a God-created way of ensuring that we learn the right habits of living in our early years . |
| 3 | The most important English writer of the seventeenth century on international law still thought in its middle years that " the reception of ambassadors further requires that hospitality should be provided befitting their rank , and necessaries supplied to them " , and practice varied considerably between different states . |
| 4 | As one analyst puts it , " Some of the Labour loyalty induced in their formative years will have lasted until today . " |
| 5 | The Angela Carter I knew and admired in her final years is a real presence in this book . |
| 6 | ‘ Our findings mean that those who start to smoke in their teenage years will be at particularly high risk of death from tobacco in later life . ’ |
| 7 | Sadly , Charlie 's arsenal has been dampened and diminished in his post-Parkhead years , and finding the back of the net now has become rather less of a habit . |
| 8 | I do n't think that could happen to me now , in the way that it did in my formative years . |
| 9 | Green painted those faces of nature of which Wordsworth wrote in his early years , albeit more a fern and burdock man than one of celandine and daffodil . |
| 10 | It must have been a considerable advantage when faced with the numerous moves the children had to make in their formative years . |