Example sentences of "in [adj] year he have " in BNC.
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1 | Later in that year he had taught for seven weeks in the school ( a replacement master could not start immediately ) and had been paid £7 . |
2 | In previous years he had forbidden staff to bring their own booze ‘ so as to avoid making an invidious distinction ’ . |
3 | There had been a period when he allowed Barbara Castle , Dick Crossman and George Wigg , all of whom suffered from the belief that politics was a conspiracy , to influence him too much , but in later years he had broken free from them and I suddenly realised how much I had got used to him being there to shoulder the final responsibility , to feeling able to turn to him naturally for a second opinion and for well-informed advice . |
4 | If the extremely unlikely event transpires that in three years he has discovered nothing of his partner 's past , then why should he complain ? |
5 | He had carried the day , of course , for although in fourteen years he had made himself supreme King in Alba , he was born to the north , and from Moray to the northernmost island of Orkney he was the leader men trusted and knew . |
6 | In twenty-five years he had not been ‘ ten times in a tavern , eight times in a coffee house ’ . |
7 | In five years he had turned a struggling side into formidable Championship contenders capable of springing surprises on League giants in the Cup . |
8 | In nine years he has brought the Labour Party back from the dead to the brink of power . |
9 | He is also proud that in 37 years he has never lost a single victim whose life he has been called on to save . |
10 | In recent years he had often carried cameras with any number of attachments . |
11 | In recent years he had made a point of appeasing the fundamentalists at the same time as co-opting left-wing opposition . |
12 | In recent years he had stayed only a day or two , until , overcome with boredom , he had returned home to watch Mrs Thatcher 's Leader 's speech on the telly . |
13 | Dance has always been his first love and in recent years he 's been on tour six times with his own company . |
14 | In recent years he has set himself up as a crusader for higher press and broadcasting standards , regularly harking back to the golden days of his journalistic apprenticeship in Yorkshire , where every fact was triple-checked and every speculation ruthlessly suppressed in the Hebden Bridge Times . |
15 | But in recent years he has spent £50,000 of his own money and much time on charitable causes . |
16 | In recent years he has been closely associated with Hildegard Fritz-Denneville Fine Arts Ltd in Bond Street where his knowledge and connoisseurship are greatly valued and he is still to be found on weekdays in the gallery 's offices . |
17 | In recent years he has become increasingly involved in the conservation of neotropical mammals , and now has a deep involvement in research studies in Peru and Ecuador of the mountain tapir , ocelot and giant otter . |
18 | In recent years he has coached many leading Midlands runners , including three times Olympian Lorraine Baker . |
19 | For one thing , she said , they could hardly scrape up enough money for one deck passage , let alone two , for in two years he had sold only three paintings for a few pounds . |