Example sentences of "in [pron] [adj] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of the problem was that I was only in my twenties when I did it , and therefore still quite young in their eyes . |
| 2 | But I did use and re-invent the world of the Barracks I grew up in , yet the point is that I was in my 20s when I wrote that book and it was viewed through the persona of a dying woman . |
| 3 | I was in my forties when I met him — call it middle-aged madness if you like — but he was so kind and thoughtful . |
| 4 | when you get and what have you in then the officers , I mean I know they 're in their twenties when they get larking about and what have you I do n't like it . |
| 5 | My children , Johnson says , are in their twenties and they ca n't handle all this swinging talk . |
| 6 | They shuffled around on the wire , blinking at Reynolds in their hundreds as he was led past . |
| 7 | no , he 's good it was funny there was some can can dancers on at the end and there were sort of ladies in their sixties and he joined them |
| 8 | According to the DSF , the ecology of the waters have been adversely affected by overfishing and the seals will starve in their thousands unless they are culled . |
| 9 | The variations on the basic motions number in their thousands and they are all executed at a very high speed . |
| 10 | And they were fitting in their own until they got up and running . |
| 11 | Two days later she allowed him to stand in her stable while she ate . |
| 12 | Christine was in her thirties and she laughed a lot . |
| 13 | ‘ Moira was in her twenties when she decided to search for her mother . |
| 14 | By avoiding these foods , she has remained very well , and has far more energy in her fifties than she had as a teenager . |
| 15 | This is called precession of the perihelion , and is not in itself curious because it had long been known that precession of the perihelion is one result of the gravitational influence on a planet 's orbit of all the other planets in the Solar System . |
| 16 | If this induces a feeling of unease in you such that you start routinely checking the concrete around the foundations of inferences drawn from social science data , so much the better . |
| 17 | David always notices when I 'm made-up or dressed in something new and I like to please him . ’ |
| 18 | As he looked at them walk away , something hard in him revolted and he cried inside himself . |
| 19 | And look this grate here 's the same thing now as it was in nineteen O eight and I make a fire in it everyday but I have n't made it today . |
| 20 | The sun exploded into whiteness and the muddy grass turned to sand so fine that he sank in it ankle-deep as he ran . |
| 21 | He was in his thirties and he was like a hero to me . |
| 22 | The eighteen year old woman was grabbed by a man in his thirties as she walked down the isolated track . |
| 23 | The evidence of the available texts and manuscripts is against such an emendation , however , since none of them has such a reading ; and it seems more likely that Ibn Hajar means no more than that Molla Fenari was in his twenties when he made the journey to Egypt . |
| 24 | ‘ By the time he was in his mid-twenties and he still had n't learnt to drive , he was afraid he 'd fail the test . |
| 25 | Ken was in his forties when he was first found to have high blood-pressure . |
| 26 | I guessed he was in his forties and he had a hard face with small wary eyes and tightly curled hair that was cut very short . |
| 27 | It worked , but I thought he was going to lose his mind when we found de Raimes locked in his solar and you were nowhere to be seen . |
| 28 | I mean the old man was well in his seventies and he , he was secondary , you see he never even er , he , he did n't even come to the funeral , Clifford 's funeral and Margaret was very bitter about that . |
| 29 | Pickering said : ‘ Dave Mackay did a great job for Derby in his mid-thirties and we saw Robson as the same type of leader . ’ |
| 30 | But even should she explain it to her as his ruse to get his own way with her , there was still the possibility that the ruse might not have come off ; in anyone older than him and less strong , it could possibly have achieved its object . |