Example sentences of "[adj] when [pers pn] [vb past] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I was about nineteen when I started taking drugs . |
| 2 | She was thirteen when she started sleeping with her boyfriend : |
| 3 | Joan , a mother-of-three , was 35 when she went missing from her home at Haydon Wick in Swindon in November 1973 . |
| 4 | Joan was 35 when she went missing from her home in Haydon Wick in January 1973 . |
| 5 | Joan Main was 35 when she went missing from her home at Haydon Wick in January 1973 and has n't been seen since . |
| 6 | Sue Hill was 35 when she started looking for a job nearly two years ago . |
| 7 | Ann-Marie Coombes was 16 when she crashed driving home from a pub . |
| 8 | After all , Mozart was only five when he started composing for the piano and look what happened to him . |
| 9 | He was just seventeen when he began experimenting with drugs , shooting heroin into his arm . |
| 10 | He was glad to return from Siam in 1907 when he started consulting again , covering topics as diverse as sherardizing and the manufacture of composition billiard balls . |
| 11 | As a mass medium nationally it achieved full status only in 1959 when it started printing in London , dropped Manchester from the mast-head and was distributed nationally like the other Fleet Street dailies . |
| 12 | It was Allen who all but put United two-up when he went flying through again only to be bodychecked … he was too quick for Bristol and penalty taker Jim Magilton was too accurate … |
| 13 | Sure was , he did n't have any interest personally in music until he was 20 when he started playing the guitar . |