Example sentences of "[be] in [pron] [adj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are in your forties you can also flash your mind back to those dramatic posters : ‘ Diphtheria is deadly — protect your child by immunization ’ , and probably recall some child at your school who contracted polio and was crippled for life . |
| 2 | Why I 'm very positive about this I am a rheumatoid arthritis person , have been since I oh I do n't know happen to be in my fifties I think . |
| 3 | But now he 's in his forties he seems to have slowed down a bit . ’ |
| 4 | There 's no decent men in it and there 's no nudity of men it , even when he 's in it all you got to see of him was waist-high , you got to see a clips of his bum . |
| 5 | She was to become the sort of opportunist that John would have admired : her second marriage was bigamous and when she was in her sixties she returned to Britain from America in order to marry a consultant surgeon at Bart 's Hospital . |
| 6 | I 'll be like Geor Geo George 's mother one year and his mo and his mother was in her seventies he came in says to daddy ho gosh ! |
| 7 | Now that he was in his mid-seventies he signed his rare letters to her ‘ Daddy ’ or even ‘ Pops ’ . |
| 8 | One Christmas when Macmillan was in his eighties his grand-son Alexander ( Maurice 's son and the present Lord Stockton ) , who looked after the old boy in many ways , asked me if I would read the eighth of nine lessons at a carol service in a London church in aid of dependants of the Publishers Association . |