Example sentences of "[subord] she be just [num] " in BNC.

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1 Sridevi has been acting since she was just five years old .
2 Sinead 's torment began when she was just eight years old .
3 Margaret had a Presbyterian upbringing , going to church twice on Sundays but lost her faith when she was just 13 .
4 How then does he explain to himself why his first wife refused to consummate their marriage for months , and why his second — Mandy whom he first seduced when she was just 14 — should only have agreed to make love to him on four occasions during their marriage ?
5 It came to Noreen 's rescue when she was just fifteen , pregnant and living in a Children 's Home with little hope of anywhere else to go .
6 The actress went through the ordeal when she was just six years old .
7 The nightmare began when she was just five months old .
8 When she was just seventeen she fell in love with someone quite a bit older than she was .
9 For the happy-go-lucky youngster from Surrey Hills , life quite literally took a dramatic turn when she was just 11 years old .
10 The durable li'l lady from Nashville who began her recording career when she was just 11 years old proved age had not mellowed her as she belted out the songs of the Fifties and Sixties which made her one of the best selling female vocalists of all time .
11 I got Bonnie — a little terrier-type dog — from an animal sanctuary 18 months ago when she was just nine weeks old .
12 Jean met you when she was just 16 and in her last year at school .
13 She first represented her country when she was just 15 and only last month , Tennis Ireland selected her for her fourth international match , which was played in Italy at Easter .
14 Her first ‘ pet ’ , a baby deer , was given to her when she was just three .
15 David and Linda Leeder , of Wayside , Shalford , near Braintree , wanted to have a small teddy bear carved on the headstone marking the grave of their daughter Sophie , who died when she was just seven weeks old .
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