Example sentences of "[verb] at the age " in BNC.
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| 1 | Isabel Marshall had been added at the age of fourteen , when her gawky , bony clumsiness had suddenly transformed itself into dazzling beauty , and Clara , her especial friend , was added a year later when her breasts grew . |
| 2 | He was educated at Caterham School and trained at the Middlesex Hospital , qualifying at the age of twenty-one , then obtaining his MB , BS ( 1923 ) with honours and a gold medal . |
| 3 | All the alleged incidents are said to have taken place between 1980 when he was fostered at the age of six by the family and 1985 . |
| 4 | All the alleged incidents are said to have taken place between 1980 when he was fostered at the age of six by the family and 1985 . |
| 5 | He is now 10.5 months old and has made no developmental progress since the time of his injury which he sustained at the age of four weeks . |
| 6 | In England , therefore , university starts at the age of 16 and lasts for five years . |
| 7 | But since work for the TVEI starts at the age of 14 , two years before the GCSE is to be taken , it is not clear how that examination will fit in ; for it is not yet certain how much vocationalism can be accommodated within the GCSE itself . |
| 8 | He was hanged at the age of 22 . |
| 9 | One recent exresident , Kenny Taylor , who himself grew up as a son of a criminal in the East-End , says , ‘ Since becoming a Christian , I have passed my driving test — I was driving at the age of ten , but now I drive with tax and insurance ! ’ |
| 10 | Patient 101 — presented at the age of 66 years with intermittent diarrhoea . |
| 11 | It was about six miles , a fair way for children , but we delighted in the story of what my father had done at the age of six . |
| 12 | The assumption was that , with sufficient care , pupils could be selected at the age of eleven on the basis of a prediction of their success in pursuing an academic education . |
| 13 | For many years little notice was taken of Wordsworth 's writings before 1798 , but even the School Exercise written at the age of fourteen ( Poetical Works , i , 259–61 ) is useful as an illustration of the faults of eighteenth-century style ; it is written in heroic couplets , in imitation of the work of Alexander Pope , and contains an excessive use of personification : |
| 14 | The First ( or rather the first he acknowledged , since there had been a previous Quartettsatz he had written at the age of 25 ) was completed in 1920 after a long gestation period of four years — partly explicable by its extreme complexity and his elaborately detailed indications on the playing of almost every note . |
| 15 | To start with , his Sonata No. 1 , written at the age of 19 , inhabits the same romantic hothouse as his teacher Franz Schreker — rather attractively and close to early Berg but without the discipline of his concise Piano Sonata , Op. 1 . |
| 16 | Born at West Kensington in London in 1929 , Moss started his racing career in Hill Climbs at the age of 17 , before developing into one of the great Endurance and Formula One drivers of the 1950s . |
| 17 | Looking at the age of the sexual revolution he isolates a set of changes that he views as having been particularly significant in shaping the period . |
| 18 | He started racing in motorcycle scrambling at the age of 10 . |
| 19 | Attention to the proper development of the grammar schools required some surprising changes : the payment of pupils to defeat the rival attractions of early employment , extra investment for able pupils in primary schools , the conversion of Public Schools into boarding grammar schools , more efficient testing and selecting , and ( since some talent would still be missed at the age of eleven , or developed later ) continuous and lifelong selection . |
| 20 | In Aden Nizan rediscovered his emotional strength , rediscovered , in short , the personality that he had relinquished at the age of twelve , at the moment of his father 's personal crisis . |
| 21 | Pugin 's strict rules and principles were upheld in part to counteract the inordinate sadness he had suffered at the age of twenty-two , when his first wife died giving birth to their only daughter . |
| 22 | Half seven the Hare and Hounds at Warsop and District Camera Club they 're meeting at the Hare and Hounds pub in Warsop and tonight they have a competition Slides in Action and seven thirty Slimmers Clubs U K are meeting at the Age Concern Centre Street in Beeston and seven thirty as well until eight thirty a mixed ability aerobics class is on in the gymnasium of Rainworth Recreation Centre that 's one fifty there and Joe Walker Zydeco Band direct from Louisiana are appearing at the Old Vic on Fletchergate at Nottingham tonight at half seven six pounds the tickets there four pounds concessions and they 're available on the door . |
| 23 | In the middle of the decade , Michael Reeves stamped his mark on the horror genre with Witchfinder General ( 1968 , The Conqueror Worm in US ) , his last film made at the age of 23 for Tigon , set amidst the witch hunts of the English Civil War . |
| 24 | For most students , the decision to follow an arts path or a sciences path is made at the age of 16 , when choosing A levels ; for some students , it is made earlier , at 14 , or , for a very few students , those who have kept their options open , later , after A level . |
| 25 | This is particularly important , and I 'm now riding my own hobby horse , but in the area of science erm we have a situation that erm in most secondary schools choice has to be made at the age of thirteen , fourteen , by boys and girls as to which subjects they should take . |
| 26 | When seen at the age of six , he had poor muscle control and could not fasten up his buttons or tie his shoe-laces . |
| 27 | William Temple came at the age of 28 and was headmaster from 1911 to 1914 . |
| 28 | His death came at the age of 63 . |
| 29 | The first step to fame and fortune came at the age of twelve , in an incident that was to prove to have a profound effect . |
| 30 | So we look at the age , look at the level of cover , health , you look healthy Shirley , are you in good health ? |