Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] how old " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked me how old I was and I said , ‘ forty-five ’ or whatever I was . |
| 2 | Good , , Mark asked me how old he was , and I said about twenty nine . |
| 3 | I asked them how old she was ? |
| 4 | Alan told me how old they were but I 'm a bit vague about kids , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 5 | so show you how old it is I mean now it |
| 6 | I then told him how old I was , and he thought I was older than I was , so that was the end of that relationship . |
| 7 | ‘ Tell me how old the stones are , and I 'll ring you again in a few days . ’ |
| 8 | Well if it do n't stop you How old 's your mum and dad ? |
| 9 | This he did , entertaining the child wonderfully and asking her how old she was . |
| 10 | No sooner had I equipped Gillian and her Squire with a cup of Formosa Oolong than I asked her how old she was , what she did , and whether her parents were still alive . |
| 11 | When interviewed by the author at the age of ninety-six , Edith Whalley said , ‘ Do n't tell them how old my sister and I are , luv . |
| 12 | Okay Mrs erm , can you tell me how old you were when you started your first job ? |
| 13 | I did tell you how old I am , did n't I ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Well , ’ Claire carried on , filling in the silence , ‘ I ca n't tell you how old this man is , or precisely what he looks like , but I can tell you that he 's managed to turn your world upside-down . |
| 15 | ‘ Ask her how old it was , ’ Woodruffe told Blunt . |
| 16 | The concentrations of freon eleven and freon twelve dissolved in surface waters have both increased dramatically since nineteen fifty but not by the same amount and so measuring their ratio in a sea water sample will tell us how old the water is . |
| 17 | ‘ Do you mind telling me how old you are , Miss Thorne ? ’ |
| 18 | Mrs A : ( a little aggrieved ) I do n't mind telling you how old I am . |
| 19 | And I say can I go to Hertford please and they did n't ask me how old I was , they just like the next thing I knew I was whacked out this six hundred quid ticket . |
| 20 | We do ask them how old they are and if they are younger they bottle out when you ask them |
| 21 | She settled down to tell him how old Alan was while he leant forward , listening with pleasure to the slightly nasal accent of Stoke on Trent . |
| 22 | I had to tell her how old you were , I said fifty , she did n't believe me |
| 23 | We asked a random selection of women who were in Darlington for market day to tell us how old they were . |