Example sentences of "in [pron] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my prime I shifted my weight onto the front foot as the bowler approached the crease , being careful though not to commit myself to the front foot . |
| 2 | Why I 'm very positive about this I am a rheumatoid arthritis person , have been since I oh I do n't know happen to be in my fifties I think . |
| 3 | Very pleased to have yours and as I said in my last it 's your money , God has been very kind to you and you must n't fly up in the face of his kindness and I wish you had not taken this step , your Uncle Steve says property 's more trouble than it 's worth . |
| 4 | So if recognition is important to a person in their twenties it is likely to continue to motivate throughout their career . |
| 5 | In their hundreds they set out calmly from the back of the building , through the exercise field towards the open country . |
| 6 | I think historically although you know historians can much better than me , erm historically maybe the way that the rock has been worked with a bagging system and it was you know and lots of quarry men had little bits of farm as well around Blaenau especially and you get a feeling er from reading about it that er you know they have a an almost self employed attitude to their to their work and their rock and the fact that er they 'd do it in their own you know wor work the rock in a certain way and this and very sort of proud erm of their work and that and From talking a lot to them and being close to you know it you feel that that that 's still very much the same really you know there is this sort of close relationship and that with their em employers there was you know a lot of you know was n't it was n't straight it as straight as you said a straight employer employee relationship that they was A lot of s sort of er give and take probably and I think they were outraged at this sort of McGregor type tactic really that you know this new machine . |
| 7 | However , for patients in their forties it is usually a simple matter to establish them on similar insulin regimens to the Type I patients . |
| 8 | In their eighties they looked just the same as they did in their fifties , though I suppose , when we were teenagers , anything over 30 was indistinguishably old . |
| 9 | It is even possible to conceive of holding your own in a conversation in which all you do is repeat aspects of what the other person has just said . |
| 10 | She was to become the sort of opportunist that John would have admired : her second marriage was bigamous and when she was in her sixties she returned to Britain from America in order to marry a consultant surgeon at Bart 's Hospital . |
| 11 | Maybe she had tried , but in her sixties she had slumped into forgetfulness . |
| 12 | but erm like Vicky who 's got , in her English folder , this is Vicky Vicky , she 's got in her literature she 's got nine A's and one B and in her other I do n't know what she 's got , ten A's probably , mm she 's not going to , she wants to be a nurse |
| 13 | In her twenties she acted with her husband Jacob Kalich 's Yiddish rep company in Boston , before touring Europe . |
| 14 | In her second , she was recklessly promiscuous , and in her third she met Charles . |
| 15 | In her fifties she began developing an elaborate theory-part religious , part mystical — on the natural supremacy of women and the need to return to a matriarchal society . |
| 16 | I 'll be like Geor Geo George 's mother one year and his mo and his mother was in her seventies he came in says to daddy ho gosh ! |
| 17 | She never tired of seeing a sunset or a flock of geese , and even in her nineties she still marvelled at the beauty of the sea or the quality of light in Dumfriesshire . |
| 18 | Towards the end of his reign , in the ordinance of the forest of 1306 , the king speaks of being confronted ‘ with the inspection of human weakness ’ and the wide burdens that fell upon him , he being ‘ inwardly tormented with divers compunctions , tossed about by the waves of divers thoughts ’ , and being ‘ frequently troubled , passing sleepless nights , … hesitating in our inmost soul upon what ought to be done , what to be held , or what to be presented ’ ; ‘ about this chiefly is our mind busied without intermission , that we may prepare the pleasantness of ease and quiet for our subjects dwelling in our realm , in whose quiet we have some rest , and in their tranquillity we are inwardly cherished with odours of satisfaction and the flowers of hoped-for peace . ’ |
| 19 | But while her designer 's eye revelled in it all she decided she was going to rattle around here in solitary splendour . |
| 20 | There 's no decent men in it and there 's no nudity of men it , even when he 's in it all you got to see of him was waist-high , you got to see a clips of his bum . |
| 21 | While he was still in his twenties he set up his own factory in Welwyn Garden City and became a millionaire . |
| 22 | In his twenties he had taken up with a girl called Freda and got her pregnant . |
| 23 | In his forties it grew worse and he decided to see a specialist When Alan mentioned that he had taken a lot of antibiotics just before the urticaria began , the specialist suggested that he try a diet with no sugar and very little starch . |
| 24 | But now he 's in his forties he seems to have slowed down a bit . ’ |
| 25 | In his eighties he was a recipient of his union 's rarely given citation for ‘ services to the acting profession ’ . |
| 26 | Even in his eighties he was a fine-looking man , the more so in any kind of formal dress . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In his left he balanced a glass of scalding hot tea . |
| 29 | Now that he was in his mid-seventies he signed his rare letters to her ‘ Daddy ’ or even ‘ Pops ’ . |
| 30 | In his 20s he became a director of N.M . |