Example sentences of "in his [adj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One member of staff left for a moment and a man in his mid-30s appeared out of nowhere with what appeared to be a gun and pushed it into the other assistant 's ribs and asked for the money . |
| 2 | Neither William nor Charles Frederick had quite the severity of countenance which one associates with Benjamin James : William in his twenties had a pleasant and confident face , with a full mouth which he would allow to be overgrown by a drooping and slightly unkempt moustache in later years . |
| 3 | Tolkien 's romance was an amalgam , then , and a potent one ; and its improbable success in his sixties lay not just in proving itself a bestseller but in making of itself the heart and mind of an international cult : a cult that was to spread to England from romantically-minded lands like California and the Antipodes . |
| 4 | The first of these was rather spooky for there was little activity as Mr. Naish , a man in his sixties did all the work , baked the bread , then delivered this in a large wicker basket to his few remaining customers . |
| 5 | A man in his forties commented : ‘ Those in their forties and fifties are the bridge generation , looked to by both younger and older people for mature guidance and help . |
| 6 | There was a knock at the door and a man in his forties slipped in . |
| 7 | A MAN in his seventies died and another was badly hurt in a crash which blocked a busy Yorkshire coast road for two hours yesterday morning . |