Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] at [art] age " in BNC.
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| 1 | DOPE grower Ronald Jenkins was fined yesterday for cultivating cannabis at the age of 71 . |
| 2 | He studied agriculture in England , but entered politics at the age of 21 and won a seat in the Sind provincial assembly . |
| 3 | Cumberland was four months younger than Prince Charles , though , like him , he had seen action at the age of 13 . |
| 4 | Born in the depressed town of Flint , Michigan , 21 years ago , Me Phi Me ( who uses the symbol of the Greek letter phi to spell out his middle name ) started writing poetry at the age of six , before graduating to rapping on the streets . |
| 5 | August 1714 , so Sophia 's son , George , the elector of Hanover , became King at the age of 54 . |
| 6 | Robert had no formal education and began work at the age of ten . |
| 7 | When she began to use contraception at the age of 42 she probably did so without her husband 's knowledge , but this would have been difficult for most working class women , given the lack of privacy in their homes . |
| 8 | AUSTRALIA 'S world No 4 Chris Robertson , who played in the British Open final at Wembley in April , has been forced to quit squash at the age of 27 with an arthritic hip . |
| 9 | I have already stated that I discovered death at the age of six , and also that I never considered suicide as a possible course of action . |
| 10 | Jenny developed epilepsy at the age of fifteen and spent the rest of her life as an invalid . |
| 11 | Perhaps he will enter university at the age of twelve . |
| 12 | He built up Dixons , with sales last year of over £1.7 billion , after starting work at the age of 16 with his father 's portrait photography business . |
| 13 | Emma started work at the age of fourteen for the London Ladies ' Co-operative Guild , a group of professional women who designed and decorated glass tables . |
| 14 | Mehetabel , or ‘ Hetty ’ as she was generally known , received the same education as her brothers , and is said to have been able to read Greek at the age of eight . |
| 15 | Scott started taking marijuana at the age of eleven . |
| 16 | His father died suddenly and Swindin had to leave school and start work at the age of fourteen to help support the family . |
| 17 | He had started work at the age of twelve as an apprentice electrician , wiring the houses of the rich in Liverpool before the First World War . |
| 18 | It did not start to spray urine at the age when any typical male would have done so . |
| 19 | The Crowther Report demonstrated that two-thirds of grammar-school pupils in the 1950s had parents both of whom had left school at the age of fourteen . |
| 20 | In adult life they were confident that the eleven-plus had separated them from ‘ the dim ones ’ and saw no reason to be troubled about the ‘ intellectually inferior ’ working-class boys and girls who had left school at the age of fifteen or sixteen . |
| 21 | BORN in Tunica , Mississippi in 1925 , Doctor Isiah Ross ( the ‘ Doctor ’ nickname evolved from his habit of reading medical books while in the army ) began playing harmonica at the age of six . |
| 22 | There had been little enough to choose between the two killings , yet all the difference in the world between the fates of those responsible : the one retired with honours , the other shot by firing squad at the age of twenty-eight . |
| 23 | A. Discus would normally begin to display courtship at the age of nine months , so it is possible that all your Discus are of the same sex . |
| 24 | Considering Rush had meningitis at the age of six , spent three weeks in an oxygen tent and alarmingly lost weight through illness , he 's not done badly . |
| 25 | When Sarah herself left school at the age of 18 , she was n't sure whether she wanted to be a teacher or a nurse . |
| 26 | A contemporary of Mrs Jay , Dan Pilgrim of Helmingham , remembers one of his first jobs on the farm after he left school at the age of twelve . |
| 27 | Born in Devon in 1954 , Andrew Mudge left school at the age of fifteen and did nine years ' service in the Navy before becoming Gardener for the Trust at Castle Drogo where he worked for seven years . |
| 28 | He left school at the age of fourteen to follow the same trade , and two years later in 1835 took over the management of a boat-building yard at Lincoln which his father had acquired . |
| 29 | I left school at the age of 17 , anxious to get into the wider world , and without much thought went to the university of my home town , at that time a pretty universal habit . |
| 30 | Leaving school at the age of 14 to study medicine , he was apprenticed to a surgeon in Worcester . |