Example sentences of "in [pron] [adj] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my prime I shifted my weight onto the front foot as the bowler approached the crease , being careful though not to commit myself to the front foot . |
| 2 | In their eighties they looked just the same as they did in their fifties , though I suppose , when we were teenagers , anything over 30 was indistinguishably old . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Maybe she had tried , but in her sixties she had slumped into forgetfulness . |
| 5 | In her twenties she acted with her husband Jacob Kalich 's Yiddish rep company in Boston , before touring Europe . |
| 6 | In her second , she was recklessly promiscuous , and in her third she met Charles . |
| 7 | In her fifties she began developing an elaborate theory-part religious , part mystical — on the natural supremacy of women and the need to return to a matriarchal society . |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | But while her designer 's eye revelled in it all she decided she was going to rattle around here in solitary splendour . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In his twenties he had taken up with a girl called Freda and got her pregnant . |
| 12 | While he was still in his twenties he set up his own factory in Welwyn Garden City and became a millionaire . |
| 13 | In his forties it grew worse and he decided to see a specialist When Alan mentioned that he had taken a lot of antibiotics just before the urticaria began , the specialist suggested that he try a diet with no sugar and very little starch . |
| 14 | In his left he balanced a glass of scalding hot tea . |
| 15 | Now that he was in his mid-seventies he signed his rare letters to her ‘ Daddy ’ or even ‘ Pops ’ . |
| 16 | In his 20s he became a director of N.M . |