Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] at [art] age " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tolkien had been brought from South Africa at the age of four ; Lewis was a Belfast man schooled in England for whom , like his Mend Tolkien , the Western Front had proved the deepest trauma of a largely bookish life ; Charles Williams , an Oxford publisher who died in 1945 , was a Londoner ; Dorothy Sayers , who died a dozen years later , the daughter of an Anglican clergyman ; and Owen Barfield a London solicitor who shared with his friends a passion for all things lexical , and above all for the etymology of words . |
| 2 | The death of Mr Punch at the age of 150 years caused a frisson of indifference in the publishing fraternity , though a few voiced tributes to his celebrated past . |
| 3 | It is with deep regret that we announce the death of one of our first members , Fred Fisher at the age of 79 years . |
| 4 | Mr Taylor , who trained at the Royal Ballet School with Mr Gable at the age of 16 , defended his report when he told the D & S on Wednesday : |
| 5 | Retaining American citizenship ( between 1904 and 1925 , she and Raymond owned a home in Florida ) , she made her final visit to the United States at the age of eighty-eight . |
| 6 | Arati Prabhakar was born in India and moved to the United States at the age of 3 . |
| 7 | A large studio shot showed Euturpia Kennedy at the age when I first met her , shy hope not yet driven from her eyes . |
| 8 | From leaving school at twelve years of age until her marriage to Hywell Gates at the age of twenty-five , she had slaved in other peoples houses for a pittance . |
| 9 | President Bush took over from the 78-year-old Ronald Reagan at the age of 64 but within 11 days the rigours of office had taken their toll . |
| 10 | Robert was sent as an apprentice to an upholsterer in Covent Garden at the age of fourteen , progressed up the ladder , bought the business , and became a big wheel in the East India Company , a founder of Williams & Glyn Bank and the local MP . |
| 11 | His first act was to sign Chris Woods for £1.2m , and since then he has added Chris Waddle for £1m , Mark Bright , Nigel Jemson and Paul Warhust , each for a little less , and Chris Bart-Williams at the age of 17 for nearly £400,000 . |
| 12 | Composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein , who 's passion and flamboyance ignited audiences around the world for decades , has died in New York at the age of seventy two . |
| 13 | Started by Pauline Jaricot at the age of 17 Now involves the whole Church in helping the world |
| 14 | Dositej entered the Hopovo monastery in the Fruška Gora at the age of sixteen , but he soon became disillusioned with the restricted life of a monk and two years later he escaped . |