Example sentences of "[prep] fifteen [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the age of fifteen he was apprenticed to John Powning , architect and builder , of Exeter . |
| 2 | At the age of fifteen he moved to Copenhagen to complete his practical engineering experience , and two years later graduated as a mechanical engineer at the Copenhagen Technical College . |
| 3 | As a boy of fifteen he had impressed his father , the Emperor Jehangir , with the taste he demonstrated in redesigning the Imperial apartments in Kabul . |
| 4 | when I was a boy of fifteen you were expected to half acre of neeps in the day . |
| 5 | And it was in fifteen it was built in fifteen I think about fifteen sixty . |
| 6 | And it was in fifteen it was built in fifteen I think about fifteen sixty . |
| 7 | And er he 'd maybe say yes and he 'd get it for fifteen you know . |
| 8 | So the standard feelers for an engineer goes from about one and a half thou up to fifteen thou , the rest you can measure by other things . |
| 9 | if you passed , if you failed the eleven plus and if you were clever enough , you could take an exam , like an entry exam to go , it 's sort of if you improve from eleven to fifteen you could take an entry exam to go into grammar school then , so that you could take your G C E's |
| 10 | Girls of twelve to fifteen I spoke to in Harlesden said that the worst aspect of their lives was the bullying and racism they faced in school . |
| 11 | The last little bit it says , give your answer in ratings , suppose W , right I just , suppose W had the seven plus fifteen I , how you gon na get R , W in ratings ? |
| 12 | At fifteen she accepted responsibility for bringing up her brothers and sisters . |
| 13 | At night a couple of times at fifteen I 'd been terrified . |
| 14 | At fifteen I had a smart brown jersey skirt and a light green jersey dress and a Leslie Caron " Gigi " hair-do . |
| 15 | At fifteen he ran away to sea , pursuing the myth of his absent father . |
| 16 | At fifteen he was an independent , tough and troublesome man-boy . |
| 17 | At fifteen he worked in a bank to learn accountancy , until his eyesight gave trouble . |
| 18 | At fifteen he was writing poetry under the avant-garde influence of Robert Graves , T. S. Eliot , and particularly W. H. Auden [ qq.v. ] , from whom he solicited a letter of encouragement . |
| 19 | At fifteen he became a bank boy , later to become an axminster weaver until redundancy in 1974 . |