Example sentences of "[adj] year old [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the vehicle is 30 years old they have probably been repainted or changed in the past unless your L.R. was a fire engine . |
| 2 | At nearly thirty-six years old he captured his fifth Open title , just one short of Harry Vardon 's record . |
| 3 | Well anybody over forty years old it ought to be , it ought to be compulsory ! |
| 4 | No , they 're a few years old them are . |
| 5 | If we consider an ordinary tree , by the time it is a few years old it has usually acquired a number of little branches , coming out more or less horizontally from the main stem or trunk . |
| 6 | Now 12 years old he carries top weight in the Maze Handicap Hurdle . |
| 7 | If I was 12 years old I 'd be squealing in the stalls as well . |
| 8 | Even at five or six years old they can look after the smaller ones and start fetching water and firewood . |
| 9 | A long time ago when I was six years old me and Neil went out mise chifing I chut a stown and it naile it a wondow then we ran off then we came to somedody garben then we clad up there tree and shouted fatet . |
| 10 | His first formal education was received in the reading school kept at Ottery by ‘ Old Dame Key ’ , a relative of Sir Joshua Reynolds , and at six years old he progressed to his father 's grammar school , where he quickly surpassed all his contemporaries . |
| 11 | I know it was a lie , but at six years old I felt that a close relative should be the one to tell him in a quiet way . |
| 12 | ‘ Although I was only six years old I can remember the seriousness of the matter and wondering how this affected us , ’ recalls Judy Watson , of The Crescent , Northallerton . |
| 13 | Agfa 's Rodinal falls into this category , although at 100 years old it is positively ancient and not modern , but it nevertheless has many qualities that other modern developers have only just caught up with . |
| 14 | After a series of goldfish bowls and acid jars at 10 years old I received my first proper aquarium a 30″ × 12″ × 12″ steel frame tank for my birthday . |
| 15 | There are not many yews of this age left in Britain ; in fact if the tree is 2,000 years old it 'll be one of only about 40 trees in western Europe to have reached this age . |
| 16 | When she was thirteen years old she was already showing signs of disruptive , disturbed behaviour . |
| 17 | I was er twelve or thirteen years old I was there . |
| 18 | For a six year old you know a lot about engines . |
| 19 | When I was eight years old I joined our school choir . |
| 20 | Yeah I can remember when I was about er seven or eight years old I had a a Hornby train which is almost identical , except it was red , I go I think some other people had one as well . |
| 21 | But that 's ridic no that 's , but Charlotte wh when you 're eleven years old you do n't look at someone else and , and |
| 22 | From when I was eleven years old I felt totally alone . |
| 23 | I was left school about er eleven years old I was . |
| 24 | but when I was eleven years old I did n't look at the sixth form and do jus just because they were doing something I wanted to do it , I might have admired them but if they were smoking that would n't make me want to smoke . |
| 25 | he want , do n't wan na be three , three years old he 'll still , he needs the buggy , then we can get that one back out again , you wo n't need a double one then will you ? |
| 26 | When Eva was three years old she was taken by train to the city . |
| 27 | When Anna was three years old it was decided to put her in foal , but many nose twitches , injections , and rectal examinations later , she was still not pregnant ; so she was sold . |
| 28 | A As vintage Champagne is not released before it is three years old it is a relatively mature wine and is thus ready to drink when available in Sainsbury 's . |
| 29 | When not quite fourteen years old he became organist of his parish church , San Lorenzo in Damaso , Rome . |
| 30 | If I 'd been fourteen years old I should have commanded one shilling , but being only twelve and a half I got sixpence . |