Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adj] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In his last years he featured in a number of important legal cases , and also became the subject of a famous caricature drawn on a tallage roll of 1233 . |
| 32 | Enthroned in 1971 , in his last years he presided over the church 's rehabilitation by the Soviet authorities after decades of repression . |
| 33 | In his later years he recalled with pride the opportunity it gave him to lecture such eminent men as Sir Henry Stanley on the correct procedure for expedition photography . |
| 34 | Mackay 's financial situation worsened following the war , especially after the runaway inflation wiped out the value of the annuity he had purchased with money left him by his mother , so that in his later years he was completely dependent on the sale of his books , which never regained their earlier popularity . |
| 35 | But in his later years he did n't come into the smithy until after breakfast . |
| 36 | In his later years he suffered ill health and his work was curtailed . |
| 37 | He was elected a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1875 ; in his later years he wrote three papers on the Severn tunnel , one on ‘ arches ’ , and one on the disposal of sewage . |
| 38 | In his later years he took to gardening again . |
| 39 | In his later years he suffered from occasional bouts of insanity . |
| 40 | Smith suffered periodically from gout — in 1720 he wrote that the drawing of a sketch ‘ at this time has occasioned me to make many a wry face by reason I could neither sit nor stand to do it ’ — and in his later years he put on weight : ‘ It is unlucky that Mr. Smith is grown so unweildy , ’ commented Dr George Clarke [ q.v. ] of All Souls College , Oxford , in 1730 . |
| 41 | In his later years he became a student of Egyptology , and was also a connoisseur who amassed a fine collection of medieval manuscripts and monastic seals . |
| 42 | Indeed , in his formative years he was influenced as much by Santana , Joni Mitchell , Todd Rundgren and Hendrix , as he was by Sly Stone , George Clinton or Earth , Wind and Fire . |
| 43 | In his earlier years he could counsel priests to celibacy and doubters to Catholic dogma with almost papal infallibility , untroubled by a fiance 's feelings or a questioner 's uncertainties . |
| 44 | From his earliest years he was interested in the macabre — fairy tales , practical jokes , and the comic drawings of the famous German illustrators and caricaturists . |
| 45 | From his earliest years he showed exceptional ability in mechanics and a natural talent for engineering , which his mother in particular did much to foster . |
| 46 | In our five years we have supported many country issues and charities . |
| 47 | During his final years he extensively revised , rewrote and rearranged his poems , especially The Prelude , and although the changes he made are not always improvements , they add up to the formation of the definitive text of the poems , so that many lines and phrases which we think of as unmistakably Wordsworth date from these latter years . |
| 48 | During his later years he practised law in London and on the Northern circuit . |
| 49 | During his last years he was involved in a bitter and ramified dispute with Edmund , Earl of Cornwall , in the defence of ecclesiastical rights following the encroachments of the earl and his agents . |
| 50 | During his last years he lived in Switzerland , and his novel Hidden Hands was set in that country . |
| 51 | By his middle years he had published little , and the ideas for which he is remembered did not begin to develop until then . |