Example sentences of "get old " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I could n't bear to think of the future , of what would happen to her when we got old , if we got ill , when we died , or worse — whether she would only live a few years , ’ she says . |
| 2 | When I got old enough I used to add my own bits to the story — it was sort of a game we played — an escape . |
| 3 | He hated to throw them away when they got old . |
| 4 | It was as if they should simply fade away when they got old like the soldiers they represented on stage . |
| 5 | You went blind , you got raped , people forgot your birthday , Nixon got elected , your husband fled with a blonde from Beckenham , and then you got old , you could n't walk and you died . |
| 6 | You said it got old . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Once the kids got old enough to see for themselves what he was like , they packed their bags and left . |
| 8 | Oh , I suppose I could have written off and got a new length of rubber , or got old Cameron in the ironmonger 's shop to find me something , but it would never feel right again . |
| 9 | Then after I got old enough , well I had to do it as well , yeah . |
| 10 | He had so much energy even when he got old , he had so much energy . |
| 11 | Is Windthorpe just for when they got old . |
| 12 | WHAT A DRAG IT IS GETTIN' OLD … that was one of mine , right ? |
| 13 | I have got old while I was not looking . |
| 14 | I 've only got old ones an' this one will go to the pawnshop . ’ |
| 15 | Got old computer from army . ’ |
| 16 | Some of them were some had got old cars in where the tyres , if it was a puncture it was these great big wheels with beaded edge tyres which you can , you put on in quite a different way from the modern car tyres . |
| 17 | They 're getting them because you 've got old drug addicts going to the doctors getting prescribed drugs that is nay there . |
| 18 | Er would the factories between them be able to help with that for a spell Er one of the things that I 'm slightly concerned about is if you 've only got old buffers on the stand erm rather than younger people |
| 19 | and he said water is getting out , he said tell people to be more careful and put towels all round so in my lovely en suite I 've got old towels all round my surround |
| 20 | Might have got old M O T. |
| 21 | I 've got old sixpences here and |
| 22 | It 's got old cheese and old bits |
| 23 | he 's got he 's just got old before his time really has n't he ? |
| 24 | We 're trying at the moment to get in non-conformist church records , or at least to get copies of them if the churches do n't want to let us have them , because they 're quite important for the nineteenth century history of East Sussex , and erm really any help that we can get from the general public who 've got old documents relating to their properties , minutes of any organisation that they 've been involved in , or that used to exist and that 's now collapsed , anything like that that can add to the history of the county we 're always very grateful to receive . |
| 25 | We 're trying at the moment to get in Nonconformist church records , or at least to get copies of them if the churches do n't want to let us have them , because they 're quite important for the nineteenth century history of East Sussex , and erm really any help that erm that we can get from the general public who 've got old documents relating to their properties , minutes of any organisations that they 've been involved in or that used to exist and that 's now collapsed , anything like that that can add to the history of the county , we 're always very grateful to receive . |
| 26 | Bob Dylan gets old |
| 27 | He fattens , he hardens , he dries up , he gets old . |
| 28 | It gets old : ignore it , and it goes away . |
| 29 | Um I think um where I 've seen things that er discussed under the heading of child sex abuse erm er it 's often the case that um y'know maybe in some families you find the situation where there 's a daughter who 's being abused by the father and then when the brother gets old enough to take an interest in sexuality , he joins in as well sort of thing and it 's er y'know it 's like there 's two blokes abusing the girl . |
| 30 | Anyway erm so erm you sometimes also find with family situations , let's suppose in some situations you have some you have a daughter in the household who 's being abused by say the father or step-father , maybe if there 's a brother once he gets old enough to start becoming interested in sex , in some cases , although he 's round about the same age as his sister , can be um as it were inducted into the into the cycle of abuse erm can actually start participating when the dynamic 's already there . |