Example sentences of "in [pos pn] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Then , one morning in my twenty-third year on the island , I was out in my fields and I saw the smoke from a fire . |
2 | I 'm in my thirteenth season of senior rugby , I thoroughly enjoy every moment and I would not with to play for any other club than Watsonians . |
3 | I am in my thirteenth summer and dream of a romantic match , of a handsome suitor — not a boy ! ’ |
4 | ‘ Here am I , in my thirteenth summer and wedded to a boy of ten who will be unable to complete the marriage for at least five years — and with no sign of a bosom to show I am truly a damsel full grown ! ’ |
5 | Two days later he sailed and I , forgetful of all dangers , was now in my seventh heaven . |
6 | " Through a peculiar accident , I began to take a passionate interest in music in my ninth year and even started composing immediately . " |
7 | I was very proud of having got movement back in my second leg and was twiddling my toes , but he thought that he was seeing a bloody ghost . |
8 | In my second thoughts my aims remain the same , but are more thoroughly developed : and all these grovelling references to ‘ great ’ historians and their ‘ brilliant ’ works have been extirpated . |
9 | This has happened before and no matter what people say I think in my second year we were about 16th or 17th . ’ |
10 | When I was in Stanley last year , even though I was only in my second year , I knew as well as all the other Stanley staff that if we had in a dodgy case the S.S.O. would fix things so that someone else operated on him . |
11 | In my second year matters came to a head . |
12 | I had been selected in my second year at Eton , while I was still a Lower boy , to box against the Eton Mission from Hackney Wick in the East End of London . |
13 | In my second year I did n't do very much work , but I did lots of acting and directing . |
14 | At first it amused me ; after my first year it drove me to distraction ; in my second year I learned to take a novel with me to work and , with a bit of luck , get through it in a two-day shoot . |
15 | ‘ I am in my second year of articles at the Prudential Corporation plc — one of the UK 's leading companies and the largest financial services business outside the high street banks . |
16 | Well in my second year I coxed one of the women 's university boats against well underneath the famous Sue Brown . |
17 | That took up an awful lot of time in my second year , although it was good fun . |
18 | The above information along with detailed plans , rules of the game and building instructions for table skittles and 20 other interesting and original projects , can be found in my second book ‘ Making Wooden Toys For All Ages ’ which is published by David & Charles , Brunel House , Newton Abbot , Devon . |
19 | I am now in my second term . |
20 | At the time of going to Budapest I was still only in my second month of strict diet and had another five weeks left . |
21 | First you clap your hands I learned this song in my first year as a Butlin 's redcoat and slightly changed the words . |
22 | In my first year in a London art school my two major preoccupations were whether you really could see William Turner 's late canvases as a precursor to French Impressionism , and how the hell I could afford to clothe myself in the right gear to make a stunning impact on my new friends at the Gateways . |
23 | I will , however , choose at least four books in my first year 's membership . |
24 | I told him I was in my first year and that my curriculum to date had been based around mastering the basics of Swahili , its grammar , basic vocabulary and syntax . |
25 | At that time I was turning it out with some facility , and I had had two poems published in The Isis in my first year . |
26 | Naturally , Eliot was pleased about my enthusiasm for Collingwood , for whom he had considerable regard ; but although he told me he liked the Essay on Philosophical Method , which had appeared in 1933 and concerning which I had attended Collingwood 's lecture-course in my first year , I could see that he was more interested in such works as A. E. Taylor 's Faith of a Moralist , or more directly theological works , such as those of Jacques Maritain . |
27 | In my first year as Beattie I made eighteen commercials . |
28 | I should add here that even as a junior at Halton I was in the senior cross-country team — which only people in their very last year were normally eligible to join and at this stage I was in my first year of three , I was allowed to go out on any occasion , in running gear , to train as I was a bona fide member of the team and so on one of these occasions when I was out training — I always wore a sort of towel around my neck which looked very professional at the time and quite unnecessary — I managed to conceal the altimeter , which had become very very hot property by this time because it was known that several instruments were missing and we could have a visit from the gendarme . |
29 | I was in my first year at Bedford . |
30 | In my first year as chairman I am delighted to report that we have again achieved outstanding results , and we have increased the gap between ourselves and our nearest competitors . |