Example sentences of "older [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I get older I 'm going to have gold teeth like Peter — I reckon they look real good . |
| 2 | As I get older I am coming to believe that our lives are planned before we are born … things happen so fast sometimes as you look back … you can see the pattern plain as day , where you took some turn , or events happened that you had nothing to do with . |
| 3 | In fact when older I was a snack bar attendant on the Duchess of Hamilton and fell in love with Harry , the student purser , as he with me . |
| 4 | My grandmother would give orders to the eldest and these would be passed down — as I got older I found this particularly galling ! |
| 5 | Since getting older I 've sometimes hoped for someone with whom to have a good relationship . |
| 6 | When I got a bit older I worked with the horses in the fields , particularly at haytiming . |
| 7 | I used to have set ideas but the older I get the more I learn from . |
| 8 | The older I get , the more efficient I become at sifting out the rubbish . |
| 9 | ‘ Jaysus is n't that great , if you were six years older I 'd take you into Shea 's and put you up on my knee and buy you a gin and it . ’ |
| 10 | He did n't like children and when I got older I stopped going . |
| 11 | I used to have set ideas but the older I get the more I learn from . |
| 12 | But … but when you 're a bit older I 'll … |
| 13 | When I was older I often left the room . |
| 14 | Now I 'm getting older I really do find policemen look younger . |
| 15 | As I get older I find myself tormented by anxieties of this nature , the anxieties about things one will never do . |
| 16 | The guy was probably dead when we tipped him into the shaft — we just assumed he was at the time though the older I got the less sure of that I was — but even if was n't , he must have been killed when he hit the bottom ; it 's thirty metres at least . |
| 17 | The same with me — the older I grow , the better my chance of becoming a great-grandfather . ’ |
| 18 | quite as young as that er you know but I mean er then as I got older I d I did live with me grandmother . |
| 19 | On the contrary , the older I get , the greater priority I give to a loving relationship . |
| 20 | When I was a little older I enjoyed going there because I was sure of meeting some of the boys I liked , but on these matters Don Cattabianchi was very strict . |
| 21 | One day when you 're older I 'll tell you . |
| 22 | When she is older I will send the child to a good girls ’ school and see that she is taught English . |
| 23 | ‘ As I get older I think more and more of my stomach , and I 'm not ashamed to admit it . |
| 24 | It was only as you grew older I began to wonder . |
| 25 | As I get older I get more sceptical . |
| 26 | And if Thomas had been any older I do n't know quite how I would have explained it to him . |
| 27 | ‘ I loved dancing but as I got older I loved teaching the little ones more , ’ says Susan , a nursery nurse at Kenton Bar Primary School in Newcastle . |
| 28 | As I got older I jumped higher , as he got older he jumped lower . |
| 29 | Well my mother was one of the pillars of the Palfrey church and er she er oh I went , my father never used to go , but she used to go and of course I , I used to be an altar server down there when I got a bit older I did for a week or two to the erm do you know anything about an Anglo-Catholic Church I mean where they swing the incense and there is this little boy with the boat ? |
| 30 | As I 've got older I realize much more how important and significant they were . |