Example sentences of "in his [adj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The discussion that is recorded about Lothar 's age suggests that some were at first not too keen to elect a pope in his thirties who , on recent record , might last for half a century . |
| 2 | Tall and elegantly mustachioed , David Esterly is a softly spoken Californian in his mid-forties whose passion for Grinling Gibbons takes him by surprise even today . |
| 3 | While he was still in his twenties he set up his own factory in Welwyn Garden City and became a millionaire . |
| 4 | In his twenties he had taken up with a girl called Freda and got her pregnant . |
| 5 | In the eyes of a deckhand in his twenties who joined the " Sunderland Union " in the days of John Beresford and who was already a member of the Australian Seamen 's Union , it seemed little more than a " miscellaneous collection of beards and whiskers " including " old greybeards of sixty , seventy and eighty years of age , with little idea of how to conduct business " , who " reflected the pessimistic outlook of their leaders , supposing that everything was wrong and that nothing could be put right " . |
| 6 | Good stories are told and enjoyed ; some old people are indeed exceptional , such as the man in his 70s who went parachuting recently , or the trenchant recollections of a man of 108 shown on television . |
| 7 | Four other people were taken to hospital , including a man in his 60s who jumped from an upstairs window and a 56-year-old woman suffering from shock and the effects of smoke . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But now he 's in his forties he seems to have slowed down a bit . ’ |
| 10 | In his eighties he was a recipient of his union 's rarely given citation for ‘ services to the acting profession ’ . |
| 11 | Even in his eighties he was a fine-looking man , the more so in any kind of formal dress . |
| 12 | One Christmas when Macmillan was in his eighties his grand-son Alexander ( Maurice 's son and the present Lord Stockton ) , who looked after the old boy in many ways , asked me if I would read the eighth of nine lessons at a carol service in a London church in aid of dependants of the Publishers Association . |
| 13 | Maria laughed , a lovely liquid sound , but it required an effort of will to lift her hand and place it in his outstretched one , and resentment surged as his fingers closed round it briefly and were removed . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Captain Robins was a Yorkshireman in his fifties who had long since lost his accent amidst the welter of a dozen dialects . |
| 17 | The druggist , a bird-like little man in his fifties who longed to repeat his father 's reputation as town matchmaker , but had so little chance since the youngsters who had n't moved out permanently were commuting to bigger towns , was delighted to see two mature strangers getting together over coffee . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The dead man , who has not been officially identified , is believed to be Brian O'Hare , a quiet man in his fifties who lived alone . |
| 20 | CASE STUDY 3.4 — MR HAMISH A social worker was called to see an old man in his seventies who had been taken to the police station for shoplifting a tin of corned beef . |
| 21 | In his left he balanced a glass of scalding hot tea . |
| 22 | An interesting example is the case of a man in his mid-thirties who suffered from bad neck tension and who , while having his neck treated , began to rub his hands round the sides of his chest . |
| 23 | Which was more than she could say for Uriah Colclough , a spare , already balding man in his mid-thirties who , having been torn all his life between a religious vocation and a natural Colclough desire to make money , lived like an industrialist but dressed like a vicar . |
| 24 | Now that he was in his mid-seventies he signed his rare letters to her ‘ Daddy ’ or even ‘ Pops ’ . |
| 25 | In his 20s he became a director of N.M . |
| 26 | His image as a tough negotiator in his new job , as in his old one , soon became the common talk of the corridors of Whitehall and Westminster , and his reputation for firmness in the exercise of power became legendary . |