Example sentences of "in [pron] [adj] [coord] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 My children , Johnson says , are in their twenties and they ca n't handle all this swinging talk .
2 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
3 The variations on the basic motions number in their thousands and they are all executed at a very high speed .
4 Christine was in her thirties and she laughed a lot .
5 David always notices when I 'm made-up or dressed in something new and I like to please him . ’
6 As he looked at them walk away , something hard in him revolted and he cried inside himself .
7 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 .
8 He was in his thirties and he was like a hero to me .
9 ‘ 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 Pickering said : ‘ Dave Mackay did a great job for Derby in his mid-thirties and we saw Robson as the same type of leader . ’
14 Mr Larkin added : ‘ Jean would never have got mixed up in anything criminal and I ca n't believe Gary was involved either .
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