Example sentences of "was old [adv] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Since I was old enough to carry a money-bag , I 've trudged round the streets , knocking on every door of every property you own … aye , and sometimes I 've had a fist in my face for the trouble , but never once have I let you down . |
| 2 | She tried to imagine how she would look when she was old enough to wear a wig , like her mother and the great ladies of the court who surrounded Queen Ankhsenpaamun , though the queen was not much older than she was herself . |
| 3 | By eight I was old enough to clean the house and do the weekend shopping . |
| 4 | Cos the girls were a little bit different sort of understand , I think Matthew suffered , Matthew was the one that , that had suffered through it , he was four , and he was old enough to understand a little bit more he knew how brushing off on him |
| 5 | I became involved with the inhabitants as soon as I was old enough to overturn a leaf . |