Example sentences of "in his [adj] year [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 In his final year he took the part of Hotspur in the school production of Henry IV Part 1 and had the audience cheering at his rabble-rousing speeches .
2 In his second year he was already marking the Greek essays of first-year students and giving them some classes , in order to raise money .
3 In his second year it dawned on him that he and his friends were the cleverest young men in the world .
4 In his third year he was — briefly — editor of the university paper , Palatinate .
5 In his sixteenth year he had the confidence to begin to write descriptive nature essays for publication in journals and newspapers .
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