Example sentences of "from his [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are a genuine substitute for the talk and shared companionship that was missing from his first year at Oxford . |
| 2 | After occupying junior ministerial office from his first year in Parliament , he became Economic Secretary to the Treasury in 1955 . |
| 3 | the claim is hard to substantiate , not so much because of Nietzsche 's professed lack of " literary ambition " ( a somewhat disingenuous profession in any case ) , but for want of any decisive evidence in , for instance , the copious private notes surviving from his first years at Basle . |
| 4 | In the first place , our picture of the genesis to a large extent depends on the interpretation and dating of Nietzsche 's literary remains ( the Nachlass ) , and specifically on the mass of plans , fragments and isolated notes which survive in notebooks from his first years in Basle . |
| 5 | MacWhirter , though settled in London from his middle years on , was a Scottish painter whose best work was in the tradition of landscape painting traced back to the early seventeenth century . |
| 6 | He began to instruct his son , this Philip Miller , in the art from his earliest years , as he had an uncommon liking for that occupation . |
| 7 | As he recorded in the letters , he carried from his earliest years one overriding impression , which was quickly summarized : ‘ My Father was very fond of me , and I was my mother 's darling — in consequence , I was very miserable . ’ |
| 8 | Compulsive , selfconscious intellectual , ‘ philosopher ’ no less than ‘ naturalist ’ , he had worked from his earliest years on a very broad canvas indeed . |
| 9 | According to Alcuin he was devoted to the pursuit of learning from his earliest years , a wise man who was both king and teacher . |
| 10 | From his earliest years he was interested in the macabre — fairy tales , practical jokes , and the comic drawings of the famous German illustrators and caricaturists . |
| 11 | From his earliest years he showed exceptional ability in mechanics and a natural talent for engineering , which his mother in particular did much to foster . |
| 12 | His experience of Catholicism from his earliest years up until his trial , seems to have been bound in oppression , self-denial and guilt . |
| 13 | His celebrated ‘ secret ’ works , mainly from his early years , include a series of masochistic self-portraits , subjects in the terrible gear of subjugation and self-disgust , studies of penis and pistil , and move with astonishing art to consideration of the body ( usually seen only in part ) as a piece of classical relief . |
| 14 | Conran has been steeped in design from his early years . |
| 15 | From his early years , he had been engaged in the creation of a whole world , comparable in scale with the world of Greek mythology , with a pantheon of gods , a hierarchy of elvish immortals , and a vast cycle of stories , some of them ‘ forgotten ’ , or not yet formulated , in his imagination ; some surviving in fragmentary form ; some planned as long prose narratives ; some conceived as great poems , longer than Beowulf The sheer volume of all this , much of it composed before his fortieth birthday , bears testimony to a rare artistic self-confidence . |
| 16 | It 's a nicely balanced combination of reminiscences from his early years ( when he was employed as a chef by the Roux Brothers ) and his own delicious creations of today . |
| 17 | There is a significant difference , and I do not feel it is only a class and an age difference , between the spare dignity of the oath Marco has learned from his early years and the oath which the Rat has devised as part of the game he has created for his Club : |
| 18 | Cardus ' current heroic status is a far cry from his early years in GPs when his name became a by-word for crashing . |
| 19 | His pictures vary in style : in his later days he showed himself capable of the common sort of conventionally flattering portrait , but , particularly from his earlier years in London , there exists a body of work demonstrating his great talent for lively detail and natural rather than conventional compositions . |
| 20 | The England manager , upset by the way his comments were interpreted after the European championship , has gone on record as saying that he is mis-understood , that he can not shake off the association with the long ball game from his formative years at Watford . |
| 21 | Understanding ‘ mythologies ’ thus , we might paraphrase his title : ‘ Symbols Of Life ’ , which has the additional benefit of thrusting forward his debt to the ‘ surrealist ’ poet Lorca , a natural child of the symbolist movement , whose ‘ super-realisms ’ had infatuated Leonard from his teenage years . |
| 22 | The memoirs are extremely detailed , yet Hickey states that he wrote them almost entirely from memory , having only a few documents available to him and those mostly from his later years . |
| 23 | His finest things in this form date from his later years — ‘ Behold thou has made my days ’ can be dated 1618 and ‘ Glorious and powerful God ’ was probably nearly contemporary and the great ‘ O Lord , let me know mine end ’ of the long-lived though generally conservative Tomkins may be later still . |
| 24 | It pushed the Scot 's earnings from his 19 years as a professional through the £1 million mark to join the five other golfing millionaires on this side of the Atlantic . |