Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun] at the age " in BNC.
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| 1 | The confidence was knocked out of me after I had won a scholarship at the age of eleven and was sent to a school in Hampshire . |
| 2 | It is a little-known fact that Laura owned a greyhound at the age of eleven . |
| 3 | He continued his researches with vigour , having learned to drive a car at the age of seventy-five and despite the amputation of a leg three years later . |
| 4 | ‘ Harry first touched a keyboard at the age of three . |
| 5 | ‘ Harry first touched a keyboard at the age of three . |
| 6 | Miller found himself playing the role of her doctor , manager , analyst and trouble-shooter with an increasingly frustrated , impatient and high-handed Olivier , who was having marital problems himself with the mentally troubled Vivien Leigh , who had just announced a miscarriage at the age of forty-one . |
| 7 | Left a widow at the age of twenty-nine , she returned to England in 1876 and settled with her son and two stepdaughters in the developing suburb of Wimbledon . |
| 8 | To demonstrate a sensitive period of the type he was proposing , it would be necessary to show that adults who had left a kibbutz at the age of six were not sexually attracted by members of the opposite sex whom they had been reared with while still in the kibbutz . |
| 9 | In some obscure way Thomas recognized ( in 1913 ) that his decision to become a writer at the age of sixteen closed the door on a career that would have pleased his father . |