Example sentences of "[pers pn] was a [noun] when [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was a drummer when I started out and so right now I know what a group of seven is , or three or five or eight . |
| 2 | ‘ I was a cop when we married . |
| 3 | Pig iron you know er pig iron was what they had I 've seen them pouring furnaces pouring it onto the pig beds , and you know when I was a kid when we lived in Caldmore from about half past nine at night all across West Bromwich , Wednesbury all over that area , you 'd see the sky light up and it was due to the pouring of er pouring the pig iron . |
| 4 | Now if you come to Caldmore , you 'll find out then that the majority of the married ladies had worked in I mean I should say that erm I know my mother was very snooty she 'd been an apprentice to some dressmakers in Street and work for one year for nothing she always used to tell me , and she was quite er toffee- nosed about these girls that used that er that used to go , well they were very respectable people , and when I was a kid when I growing up in my teens a lot of the girls I used to know were in the offices at er it they employed about fifteen hundred people at in those days you know I mean coming out of at night it was fighting your way against the crowd if you were going towards it , and the same thing going through the square for people who have worked in when they left that 's why all those shops in the square used to do reasonably well , it was the people walking through to go up the other side of Walsall , but there was a crowd of people I can , I can always remember as a kid a crowd of people and then there 'd be well you can tell it was along Street in those days I can remember fruiters ' carts where the girls used to go and buy apples , and that all sort of going along there you know people used to wait for them coming out , these are my impressions as a kid I mean I can remember the , the er and the men of course were cutters and various people and a quite a lot of my father 's friends were , were er had er skilled jobs at as cutters and managers of the cutters ' department and that sort of thing . |
| 5 | I was a virgin when we married , but I know that she had been with other men before me . |
| 6 | I expect Oliver 's given you the impression that I was a virgin when I got married . |
| 7 | The same as what does it matter whether or not I was a virgin when I met Gillian ? |
| 8 | ‘ I was a child when I learned other things also . |
| 9 | I was a child when I left home ! |
| 10 | I was a child when you were famous and that makes it very dead . ’ |
| 11 | I was a child when it happened . |
| 12 | And when Laura had protested , as she frequently had , he had merely pointed out with brutal logic , ‘ You knew I was a businessman when you married me , Laura . |
| 13 | I was a student when I met Miss B , but I have never forgotten her . |
| 14 | And that was the only time that I 've fired a rifle cos , well actually I went got , rose to a corporal I was a corporal when they finished and erm I was in er made cor lance corporal and then I was er with a heavy Vickers machine gun , that 's the one with the has water cooled casing on it the big heavy one you see , and I was with that , that team . |
| 15 | I was a shocker when I was younger . |
| 16 | ‘ She was a child when they went off , and then grew up quickly in New York . |
| 17 | ‘ She was a child when she came to us . |
| 18 | Foujita , an inventive witness , claimed that they were lovers , although Jeanne 's friends insist that she was a virgin when she met Modigliani . |
| 19 | It was Artemesia who was tortured into proving that she was a virgin when she was raped and had to dispute all the ’ witnesses ’ brought in by Tassi who claimed that they had had Artemesia too . ’ |
| 20 | I 'll bet she was a goer when she was young . |
| 21 | These days Clint sees as much of both as he can : ‘ It was a problem when they were growing up . |
| 22 | It was a relief when we felt ourselves fairly started and we enjoyed the beautiful sail down Loch Tarbert … |
| 23 | For this reason , it was so important what one said , and what one did , and it was a relief when they went |
| 24 | It was a relief when they could get up and move back to the sitting-room . |
| 25 | It was a relief when I was moved on to the Sports Desk ; these were gains and losses of a different kind and they did n't involve people getting killed . |
| 26 | It was a relief when she dashed off to her next call . |
| 27 | All in all she worked solidly for two hours , and it was a relief when she was finally free to take an official coffee break . |
| 28 | It was a worry when we did n't get a pension and when it did come , it alleviated things , but we know it could run out in the New Year . |
| 29 | It was a help when I received letters . |
| 30 | Warnock explained : ‘ It was a gamble when I first signed Catlin . |