Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [pers pn] be [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told me that she was eight years old , the eldest of six children , when the security men came to the army camp to arrest her father , an officer in the Moroccan army , in 1972 . |
| 2 | A man I know told me that he was twenty years old before he realised that his mother really loved him . |
| 3 | ‘ So why should Simon tell me that you were three months pregnant by him ? ’ |
| 4 | He come at me and he was six foot two and he come he were gon na knock hell out of me so I had to protect myself and we got fighting in the shop . |
| 5 | You know as well as I do , they only stop talking about you when you 're six foot under . ’ |
| 6 | The signpost outside the post office told her that it was ten miles to Abbotsfield and twenty-five to Bristol . |
| 7 | None of his friends admitted knowing him and it was two weeks before his mother knew of his death . |
| 8 | A woman posing as a social worker walked off with her and it was 15 days before Alex was found safe at a house in Burford , Oxon . |
| 9 | If , however , he has oral sex with her and she is 16 years old or more , he can be liable for the offence of indecent assault only if it can be proved that she did not consent . |
| 10 | He did before he went away , asked her if we 'd look after her and we had her until she was seven years old . |
| 11 | And we worked on this contract for two month , to try it out for him but we were thirty pound a week less , and we had over two hundred slates a day more , on the on this contract . |
| 12 | ‘ We 've had him since he was three days old . |
| 13 | My mum has been minding him since he was seven months old , he is now six . |
| 14 | Details emerged at the trial of Paula 's husband Eddie Gilfoyle , who is accused of murdering her when she was eight months pregnant in June last year . |
| 15 | All blooming right for him when he was six feet in the air . |
| 16 | Erm , and that er what causes erm David Lewis to tell the sorts of stories about he tells is this kind of hideous accident that happened to him when he was three years old and then was exaggerated by his |
| 17 | But they do n't , I mean they just do n't some kids have got ta sort of work at it and you 're one child , like Lee . |
| 18 | They had their they measured it and it was eight foot high and he jumps up , spins around and crash |
| 19 | She thought one day she would look into it and it was 21 years later , with time on her hands , that she actually got round to it . |
| 20 | His sister was his mother , only he did not know it until he was thirty-eight years old . |
| 21 | However , almost all my political connections were on the Left and my Labour friends , acquired relatively late in life ( apart from George Wigg , most of them after I was forty years of age ) , were a source of delight and novelty to me . |