Example sentences of "[vb past] he was [art] old " in BNC.
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| 1 | I learnt he was an old seaman who kept an inn , and he knew all the seamen in Bristol . |
| 2 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 3 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 4 | I thought he was an old mate of Connon 's ? ’ |
| 5 | When I wrote to Dr Barnardo 's , I said that they might not approve of money from such a source but the secretary who answered the letter said he was an old Selwyn man and the more we could send him the better . |
| 6 | She just shook her head and said he was an old enemy of her father 's , and refused to be drawn any further . ’ |