Example sentences of "[pron] was [art] [noun] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I was a Romany I 'd have ended up fighting Nahum , ’ said Seb , trying not to allow the emotion he felt to show . |
| 2 | I was nourished on stories like these ; William Wallace , slaying half a dozen English soldiers with his fishing rod ; Bruce , before Bannockburn , felling an English knight with one stroke from his slender battle-axe ; and when I was a boy I contracted a mortal dread of dying in bed . |
| 3 | ‘ Ever since I was a boy I have dreamed of playing at St Andrews in God 's country . ’ |
| 4 | When I was a boy I belonged to a small Christian sect that was my whole world . |
| 5 | ‘ When I was a boy I knew your part of the country very well , ’ he said . |
| 6 | He said , ‘ When I was a kid I saw that film , and I wanked for days on end . |
| 7 | When I was a kid I loved the seashore for its mix of beautiful , subtle colours and strong smells . |
| 8 | When I was a kid I was in a house that got stuck . ’ |
| 9 | When I was a kid I used to practise stalking up the stairs . |
| 10 | I mean , when I , when I was a kid I got , erm , I was given an Australian doll baby , and which was funny cos it had an amazing sun tan and dark blue eyes and blonde hair , like typical Ozzie child . |
| 11 | Once having framed the thought in my mind that I was a lesbian I found myself unable to keep silent about it . |
| 12 | She said : ‘ Because I was a midwife I knew what was happening in my body so I was able to rationalise it , but it was still a shock . ’ |
| 13 | She said : ‘ Because I was a midwife I knew what was happening in my body so I was able to rationalise it , but it was still a shock . |
| 14 | When I was a child I believed my father when he said he would live to be a hundred . |
| 15 | " When I was a child I used to imagine the moor belonged to me , that I was a young prince or the heir to an estate or something . |
| 16 | Even when I was a child I was entranced by her . |
| 17 | When I was a child I could remember gatherings of two or three hundred people , but there were less than a hundred out on the dry grass . |
| 18 | ‘ 'When I was a child I spake as a child , I understood as a child , I thought as a child , but when I became a man , I put away childish things . |
| 19 | When I was a child I once went round the house tearing all the stickers off ; I was belted and sent to my room for two days . |
| 20 | Then he looked at the old eagle again and shaking his head said , ‘ During the last war when I was a prisoner I knew men who were nearer to death than this and yet by some force of will or perhaps some power greater than us they survived . |
| 21 | ‘ When I was a girl I wanted to be an actress . |
| 22 | When I was a girl I discovered sex ! |
| 23 | ‘ Are you saying if I was a Catholic I could n't suit myself ? |
| 24 | When I was a teenager I was in the middle of a techno revolution , listening to Japanese avant-garde , techno and new rave bands . |
| 25 | When I was a doctor I never killed a single patient , which is more of a boast than you might imagine . |
| 26 | ‘ Put it this way , if I was a woman I would like to bear his children , ’ said Depressed Milkman supremo Ged Backland , who has stayed on the right side of the copyright laws by using a pencil drawing of the Bettabuys boss . |
| 27 | ‘ If I was a horse I 'd be called ‘ over the top ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ If I was a toff I 'd have a watch , ’ said Sadie glancing at a wrist that needed no additions . |
| 29 | When I was a bairn I loathed and feared these dogs , and as my parents often liked to get rid of me I used to stay for short holidays with both uncles , and so I saw more of the dogs than I liked . |
| 30 | I mean and when I was a spooler I , I really enjoyed it because I had job satisfaction at the spooling , |