Example sentences of "[num] [Wh adv] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was 22 when I had to suffer the pressure , perhaps now at 27 I would cope much better . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't see why not — after all I was only just twenty-one when I married Mark . ’ |
| 3 | I was twenty-one when I met Peter Sellers . |
| 4 | I think I was about nineteen when I started taking drugs . |
| 5 | ‘ The idea came to me during September 1991 when I saw a pile of waste paper being loaded into a contractor 's vehicle at the back of 36 St Andrew Square . |
| 6 | By the time I got him home to Walthamstow it was nearly five and the rush hour was warming up , so it was nearer six when I got to Stuart Street . |
| 7 | As I tell children in primary schools , I was six when I had my first piece published . |
| 8 | It was 4.55 when I left his consulting room . |
| 9 | Failure in 44 and 45 when I wanted to rally all Frenchmen together … |
| 10 | We were winning 3–0 when I woke up . |
| 11 | But my son was only three when I left and I think he still feels rejected . |
| 12 | It was day three when I started to haemorrhage and Lee cried for the first time since his brief squawk at the moment of birth . |
| 13 | ‘ I had n't really been involved with rugby since 1984 when I retired at Bath but I was delighted when Blaina contacted me ’ , he commented . |
| 14 | It was eight-twenty when I hit Wilshire and a mile or so further on I turned into the Avenida San Vincente . |
| 15 | I worked for Department One from 1943 until 1957 when I left the company . |
| 16 | In my own case , from 1957 when I joined ICI until 1973 when I was appointed to the board , I had no fewer than nine jobs . |
| 17 | ‘ I was 11 when I started saving pennies to buy my first guitar ’ , remembers Miguel . |
| 18 | ‘ My son was 18 when I moved down here and I left him with grandparents . |
| 19 | In 1981 when I came to Region it was n't our concern with the big psychiatric hospitals . |
| 20 | ‘ He was fourteen when I married his father , and that 's twenty years ago — which makes him thirty-four years of age now . ’ |
| 21 | Waving to one side the 15–20- per cent changes in protein synthesis rates and enzyme activity I had reported , Francis Crick was explicit on this point at a Royal Society discussion meeting in London in 1977 when I presented the results we had by then obtained on imprinting in the chick and the effects of first exposure to light in the rat . |
| 22 | Everything changed in the late summer of 1958 when I went to " the convent " , Elmwood , my senior secondary school , and began to lose sight of all these children , now separated by age or by the hurdle of the " qualie " that had kept some back and relegated them to the junior secondary where school ended at fifteen , divided girls from boys and clever from less clever . |
| 23 | I first met Kyffin Williams in 1961 when I went to Highgate School . |
| 24 | I was 37 when I arrived . |
| 25 | Somehow , even at the age of five when I made my first visits to Colchester Zoo , I felt they stood out from other birds . |
| 26 | My brother Paul was five when I killed him . |
| 27 | It had been ten past five when I had last checked on the time . |
| 28 | In 1987 when I attended the Intermediate Command Course at the Police Staff College with some thirty-five other superintendents from around Britain , I found that my Ph.D . |
| 29 | It had been an eye-opener to me in 1987 when I realized how naïve I had been about the press , discovered how they believe they have some God-given right to intrude on the privacy of well-known individuals in the name of journalism . |
| 30 | It was a very hot and sunny day in 1987 when I went to Semerwater for the open air service , and Yorkshire 's largest natural lake was a hive of activity . |