Example sentences of "[Wh adv] i [was/were] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After our first Report the tabloid journalists enjoyed themselves by writing provocative articles about how I was the professor for whom correct English did not matter . |
| 2 | Interested but not involved — except during the years when I was a member , and latterly chairman of the Crofters Commission . |
| 3 | The theological justification behind such an approach ( not that I had necessarily thought this out at the time when I was a member of the church ) must surely be that God 's will must be held to be one with what is good , and therefore what Christianity proclaims can not differ from human ethical goods . |
| 4 | ‘ I remember when I was a coach at Wimbledon — in the Southern League then — and Middlesbrough came down to Plough Lane for an FA Cup-tie . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I remember when I was a kid , you dare n't say ‘ boo ’ to a peeler . |
| 7 | Referring to his upbringing in the Protestant Shankill area , another said , ‘ I remember when I was a kid , if you seen a policeman you 'd run , nowadays kids are more likely to tell you to fuck off ’ ( FN 23/10/87 , p. 18 ) . |
| 8 | I ca n't say whether this is true or not but I have been told , it was spoke about when I was a kid , that they never saw each other except if they were both of the same religion . |
| 9 | It 's like when I was a kid and when everybody else in the grammar school got school dinners I had to queue outside the headmaster 's office every morning for me free dinner ticket . ’ |
| 10 | As they used to say when I was a kid , people keep to their station . |
| 11 | " I say , Lyn , did I ever tell you how I actually got into one of the old mines when I was a kid ? " |
| 12 | ‘ I guess I just saw too many of those sci-fi movies when I was a kid . |
| 13 | At least it 's better than the paraffin we used to have when I was a kid . ’ |
| 14 | A lot of old sailors you know er in them days , when I was a kid aye . |
| 15 | And they still had ration books when I was a kid . |
| 16 | I remember you from when I was a kid , back in the days when you do n't remember me . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ On lots of winter holidays when I was a kid , ’ she told him . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Oh , I remember when I was a kid getting in trouble |
| 20 | The Mulverins have a farm there now — they used to be the stewards when I was a girl . |
| 21 | This was when I was a girl and we had a lot of calves to feed and water . |
| 22 | I think at the end of ’ When I was a girl ’ the main character Katy is looking to the future . |
| 23 | At the time er when I was a firearms instructor er that was the job that I did every day I went to work either firearms training or firearms operations . |
| 24 | On one of these trips to London when I was at school , good when we went with the Brownies , I went two or three times and er , one time when I was a bit older , I mean the first time I went as I say I was only about seven , but , when I was a bit older I went again , they said if |
| 25 | My resemblance to my father — which had always been remarked upon when I was a child — was now startling . |
| 26 | ‘ I used to puff peas when I was a child , ’ Jehana said , and took the blowpipe from him . |
| 27 | In the past , habit is expressed by used to or , when a number of habits are referred to , would may be used : I used to walk three miles to school ( every morning ) when I was a child ; He would wake up at about 6.30 . |
| 28 | Well I can I can remember when I was a child and kids had a lot of time to do hobbies and a favourite hobby was to make a a garden and I never made one , but a friend of mine was ooh forever making these things and giving them away as presents you got the lid of a biscuit tin or something of that sort and you I do n't know what they used for grass they used to model little ducks and things and he had a piece of mirror to make a pond have you ever seen this done ? |
| 29 | I remember when I was a child that occasionally my parents would have visitors to the house , people that I 'd never set |
| 30 | I mean I know in my time when I was a crane driver if they , if one of them did n't turn up dow down at Cliff Quay they 'd come along to a crane driver and they 'd say , take a rope for us will you . |