Example sentences of "he [be] a [adv] old " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he 's he 's a little old man and I think he 's smashing ! |
| 2 | he 's a real old woman , urgh , I ca n't be doing with him |
| 3 | He 's a very old hand in lobbying er which shows it 's how it 's we 've got it this far . |
| 4 | I had found out that her name was Miss Vulcan and I gave her this information as well as telling her that Miss Vulcan had a brother named Freddie who visited her and that he was a little old man who wore a black cap on his head and sported a goatee beard . |
| 5 | The Marshal always used to think he looked childlike , being so small , but now he was a little old man . |
| 6 | Well he 's done ever since he was a little old boy , just |
| 7 | he was a right old chap him . |
| 8 | I remember my father saying when he was a very old man , ‘ Technique you can learn . |
| 9 | She was a very young 19 and he was a very old 32 . |
| 10 | ‘ He was a very old man who worked in the same room as John Dyson and myself . ’ |
| 11 | He was a very old man ; he had blacked his eyelids with collyrium and his teeth and upper lip were heavily stained with paan . |