Example sentences of "old [adv] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | That man , who was old enough to be her father , had ‘ completely destroyed her trust , ’ he said . |
| 2 | He did not think that he judged wisely to accept , because he accepted another job only two years after he was appointed and then had to withdraw because he was found not old enough to be legal . |
| 3 | ‘ No woman ’ , she had written , ‘ genuinely fancies a man old enough to be her father . |
| 4 | Why , I 'm old enough to be your grandmother ! |
| 5 | Turf ( or peat ) is the remains of the ancient Irish forest not yet old enough to be coal . |
| 6 | Wedgwood , traditionally more successful , experienced a rather worrying drop in profits , from I£17.9m to I£12.8m but will benefit from recent action to reduce costs by closing three old and inefficient production facilities — one of which is old enough to be subject to a preservation order . |
| 7 | Jacky first took an interest in golf when he was about six years old : ‘ When I was old enough to be able to walk the mile or so to the course . ’ |
| 8 | He was old enough to be Phil 's father . |
| 9 | By the time I was old enough to be officially admitted to ‘ X ’ certificate performances the ‘ sixties had dawned and La Dolce Vita . |
| 10 | ‘ But you became greedy , Barney , ’ she said , ‘ you became so greedy you were willing to sell your own daughter like a beast at the fair , forcing her to marry a lecherous oul wretch that 's old enough to be her father . |
| 11 | The door had a black painted cast-iron knocker , brass numbers and handle that were polished each week , and when I became old enough to be trusted with this job , I felt very grown up . |
| 12 | It illustrates the fact that the child is puzzled or confused about a subject on which he should have had reasonably clear instruction as soon as he was old enough to be taught anything at all . |
| 13 | But if you were old enough to be around at the time , reactions like ‘ Well , of course , the political circumstances were such that … ’ , and ‘ Yes , I have to admit I took offence to that ’ are more likely , and cause one to take a more considered and less dogmatic view . |
| 14 | ‘ I think I 'm old enough to be young now , ’ said Catriona . |
| 15 | She could almost hear the tick of its works , that and the beat of her heart ; for , if Rab was young enough to be her son , then her husband was old enough to be her father . |
| 16 | He was old enough to be her father , and she convinced herself that she was suffering from too much imagination . |
| 17 | For days he 'd been in the blackest of moods , furious with her for wasting herself on a man old enough to be her father , and even more furious with himself for not having taken her forcefully after that Christmas evening when he 'd known her feelings were as inflamed as his own . |
| 18 | The girls were shocked because although public relations consultant Margot is as good-looking as her toyboy lover , at 39 she is old enough to be his mum . |
| 19 | Colin Bastafield , 29 , also fell in love with a woman old enough to be his mum — his 48-year-old mother-in-law , Dawn Stafford . |
| 20 | ‘ Everyone seemed to think Benjamin was a virgin , but I never thought of him as that , but that it was the first time he was making love to a woman who was old enough to be his mother , and who was his mother 's friend . ’ |
| 21 | The youngest child in the family , not yet old enough to be at school , was on a shopping trip in Kirkwall with one of her oldest sisters . |
| 22 | I felt my age ascending as his dropped : I was old enough to be his mother . |
| 23 | Old enough to be his mother ! |
| 24 | ‘ You do n't look old enough to be the mother of two great big boys . |
| 25 | I wish I could make you happy , ’ he said , so sweetly and gently that I was ashamed of the laughter building up inside me , and of the thought , why he 's old enough to be my father . |
| 26 | I started crying and saying that he was only a minor , that he was n't old enough to be taken away , and had n't done anything . |
| 27 | For instance , if I have a student in my class old enough to be my mother , is it appropriate to call her by her first name ? |
| 28 | The child is old enough to be able to mould Plasticine . |
| 29 | ‘ BUT HE IS OLD ENOUGH TO BE HER GRANDAD ’ |
| 30 | He 's old enough to be her grandfather . |