Example sentences of "his [adj] year [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In his sixteenth year he had the confidence to begin to write descriptive nature essays for publication in journals and newspapers . |
| 2 | If the young barrister has any spare time in his early years he should use it to prolong his pupillage in fact if not in name . |
| 3 | In his early years he sailed in the ships of the Dieppe armateur , Jean Ango . |
| 4 | In his early years he appeared in concert parties . |
| 5 | In the midst of his second year he was sent off to the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth , for a crash course in everything Welsh prior to his investiture as Prince of Wales in the summer of 1969 . |
| 6 | In his second year he was already marking the Greek essays of first-year students and giving them some classes , in order to raise money . |
| 7 | In his second year it dawned on him that he and his friends were the cleverest young men in the world . |
| 8 | In his later years he recalled with pride the opportunity it gave him to lecture such eminent men as Sir Henry Stanley on the correct procedure for expedition photography . |
| 9 | Mackay 's financial situation worsened following the war , especially after the runaway inflation wiped out the value of the annuity he had purchased with money left him by his mother , so that in his later years he was completely dependent on the sale of his books , which never regained their earlier popularity . |
| 10 | But in his later years he did n't come into the smithy until after breakfast . |
| 11 | In his later years he suffered ill health and his work was curtailed . |
| 12 | During his later years he practised law in London and on the Northern circuit . |
| 13 | He was elected a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1875 ; in his later years he wrote three papers on the Severn tunnel , one on ‘ arches ’ , and one on the disposal of sewage . |
| 14 | In his later years he took to gardening again . |
| 15 | In his later years he suffered from occasional bouts of insanity . |
| 16 | Smith suffered periodically from gout — in 1720 he wrote that the drawing of a sketch ‘ at this time has occasioned me to make many a wry face by reason I could neither sit nor stand to do it ’ — and in his later years he put on weight : ‘ It is unlucky that Mr. Smith is grown so unweildy , ’ commented Dr George Clarke [ q.v. ] of All Souls College , Oxford , in 1730 . |
| 17 | In his later years he became a student of Egyptology , and was also a connoisseur who amassed a fine collection of medieval manuscripts and monastic seals . |
| 18 | In all his sixty years he had bought , sold , bred , and trained some hundreds of horses . |
| 19 | Hogarth also lived there , but he was often at his business address in Leicester Fields , and in his latter years he became ‘ Sergeant Painter ’ to the King . |
| 20 | In his latter years he created an elaborate water garden at the cottage ornée he had built for himself on the outskirts of Plymouth , and was wont to drive round the streets of the town in a gig disguised as a Roman war chariot , looking , in Wightwick 's words ‘ ( as far as his true English face and costume allowed ) like Ictinus of the Parthenon , ‘ out for a lark ’ . ’ |
| 21 | In his latter years he took little day-to-day interest in racing , but was seen as an elder statesman of the turf . |
| 22 | Even in India , where Owen had served before he came to Egypt , and where in his latter years he had been seconded from his regiment to an Intelligence post on the Frontier , it had been normal practice to purchase information . |
| 23 | Indeed , in his formative years he was influenced as much by Santana , Joni Mitchell , Todd Rundgren and Hendrix , as he was by Sly Stone , George Clinton or Earth , Wind and Fire . |
| 24 | By the end of his first year he 'll be light-haired , but it will change again so that in maturity he 'll be quite definitely dark . |
| 25 | Within his first year he was implementing cuts of twenty million pounds . |
| 26 | In his first years he developed his interests in stratigraphy of the Chalk and in Pleistocene and Recent deposits , before he was transferred to the Lake District . |
| 27 | But Eleanor too had to travel a great deal , and in his earliest years it was almost certainly Richard 's nurse who provided love and security on a day-to-day basis . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In his final year he took the part of Hotspur in the school production of Henry IV Part 1 and had the audience cheering at his rabble-rousing speeches . |