Example sentences of "in his [adj] [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his eighties he was a recipient of his union 's rarely given citation for ‘ services to the acting profession ’ . |
| 2 | Even in his eighties he was a fine-looking man , the more so in any kind of formal dress . |
| 3 | In his fifties he was to return to the Liskeard area , the ‘ land of his fathers ’ , and make notes for a book on Cornwall ; alas , never to be completed . |
| 4 | If an overweight man in his fifties who is a heavy smoker , has a family history of heart disease and is working in a stressful job were to decide to ‘ get fit ’ and invite a colleague for a game of squash for the first time in twenty years , he would be doing just about the best he could to give himself a heart attack . |
| 5 | Now police want to talk to a man in his fifties who was walking a black labrador-type dog in the area at the time . |