Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] year [pers pn] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My next effort was a ‘ coffee table ’ book on English Sporting Prints , also out of print , and , in my hundredth year I am trying to complete a Catalogue of English Sporting Prints c.1750–1880 , promised twenty years ago . |
| 2 | This has happened before and no matter what people say I think in my second year we were about 16th or 17th . ’ |
| 3 | Towards the end of my last year I was called by Bishop Knight and asked where I would like to serve . |
| 4 | In its early years it was called the Ulster Saturday Night , but this was soon extended to its present title Ireland 's Saturday Night . |
| 5 | During her later years she was never visible till mid-day , by which time she would , in an upstairs drawing-room , be found occupying a cushionless chair at a large central table ; with a glass of port at her right hand and a volume of sermons at her left . |
| 6 | During their fertile years they are either pregnant or breastfeeding . |
| 7 | In its earlier years it was extremely outspoken in its condemnation of anything that failed to gain its approval . |
| 8 | Although in her 94th year it was always a pleasure to visit . |
| 9 | In her first year , it took her a day or two to settle down to London , but in her last year she was there the moment she stepped on the train . |
| 10 | In the midst of his second year he was sent off to the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth , for a crash course in everything Welsh prior to his investiture as Prince of Wales in the summer of 1969 . |
| 11 | In his second year he was already marking the Greek essays of first-year students and giving them some classes , in order to raise money . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Within his first year he was implementing cuts of twenty million pounds . |
| 15 | But Eleanor too had to travel a great deal , and in his earliest years it was almost certainly Richard 's nurse who provided love and security on a day-to-day basis . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In his third year he was — briefly — editor of the university paper , Palatinate . |
| 19 | Our Development Steering Group met in April and because we were by then well into our financial year it was decided that with an all out effort on everyone 's part we should be able to raise the £8000 for 1988 . |