Example sentences of "in [pron] [adj] [subord] [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 | They shuffled around on the wire , blinking at Reynolds in their hundreds as he was led past . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And they were fitting in their own until they got up and running . |
| 8 | Two days later she allowed him to stand in her stable while she ate . |
| 9 | ‘ Moira was in her twenties when she decided to search for her mother . |
| 10 | By avoiding these foods , she has remained very well , and has far more energy in her fifties than she had as a teenager . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The sun exploded into whiteness and the muddy grass turned to sand so fine that he sank in it ankle-deep as he ran . |
| 13 | The eighteen year old woman was grabbed by a man in his thirties as she walked down the isolated track . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Ken was in his forties when he was first found to have high blood-pressure . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Controls , however , are in themselves useless unless they trigger an appropriate response to permit changes to be made . |
| 18 | I 'm not any more interested in anything permanent than you are . |
| 19 | We did n't want to sell the house , but we 're both in our sixties and by the time the work is completed we 'll be in our seventies so we just have to bail out now . |