Example sentences of "[pron] age [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , at my age I would have thought one could retire when one felt so inclined , without adverse comment . |
| 2 | She 's she 's about my age I should think and she sometimes , once a month she does the coffee wears glasses |
| 3 | But she vowed : ‘ I 'll show everyone that even at my age you can be a good mother . ’ |
| 4 | Erm as you get older once you get to my age you can spell most of the words you know . |
| 5 | I only hope that when I am their age I will act a little better . |
| 6 | At his age he would find it hard to get another . ’ |
| 7 | Yet you still have Church and State colluding to tell young people at what age they can buy condoms and limiting access to such contraceptives in the age of AIDS . |
| 8 | Did you tell me where the family planning clinics were , what they do , what age you can get the Pill ? |
| 9 | Now I , I often gives in , in schools , and I particularly show that slide because as you can see it goes up to the year twenty forty er now I shall be a hundred and four in the year twenty forty I wo n't ask you to calculate what age you will be in the year twenty forty it might be quite large erm |
| 10 | Ooh I do n't know what age I 'd be when we went up there . |
| 11 | Well that 's , that 's fine you 've got to start with the easy ones and at your age you would n't , you would n't normally be doing them this hard at all , this is for sixteen year olds who are doing their , their plot paper on G C S E maths so you expect to find , oh hang on this is a bit hard there 's a bit of work in this , but I think you 're capable of doing it . |
| 12 | ‘ Surely at your age you can manage that . |
| 13 | At your age you should know better than to bring rubbish into the house . |
| 14 | Well at your age you should have a hankie with you , you should n't have to be told ! |
| 15 | If you 've got a daughter half your age I 'd rather screw her instead . |
| 16 | Rather taken aback , and with no time to think of a suitable reply , I said , ‘ Well , I suppose at your age I can only stand back and hope you do n't make too many mistakes . ’ |
| 17 | At your age it may be caused by diverticulitis , a polyp , or some other disorder of the colon , which might need specialist treatment . |
| 18 | When they realised that our combined ages was nudging 150 years , one wag said that if he reached our age he would settle for soloing over a stile ! |
| 19 | At our age you can no longer remember in what order things happened . |