Example sentences of "[Wh adv] i be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About how I was some kind of prophet as far as he was concerned and he was desperate to have me Confirmed . |
| 2 | You know , that 's in the days when I was seventeen year old , I could go'n stick a fork into a truss weighing into eleven stone and pitch thet up high as you like with a fork , as high as I could reach . |
| 3 | At this time , when I was thirteen years old , I was about average in height and weight for my age and so would most likely be a C. This aspect of the annual weighing and measuring routine — the actual result — did n't really bother me much . |
| 4 | To return from conjecture to fact : the nuclear family left Lewis in 1944 when I was five years old . |
| 5 | But then again yo you 're you 're advised against going over the speed limit that most people do , I do I I tell yo like I said I 'm not a saint cos like a couple of times when I was first driving , especially in my fucking sprint cos it was a quick car I used to drive up people 's arses and wait until I could overtake them and if they did slow down that used to incense me and I 'd fucking , I 'd go right up there arse and then probably try and cut them up when I went , overtook them and I s fucking learnt , I got a I had a couple of close calls like , people are slamming brakes on and stuff |
| 6 | From when I was eleven years old I felt totally alone . |
| 7 | My music then had an unfortunate break of nearly a year when I was eight years old ; we moved house . |
| 8 | I was taken there for the first time when I was six weeks old in a motor side car down from London to just within ten miles of Bury St Edmunds . |
| 9 | Because in 1982 , when I was nine years old , my father 's work brought us to North Cornwall , where the landscapes are among the most magical on Earth and the legend of King Arthur still burns . |
| 10 | I do n't think it would be possible to be busier than I was when I was permanent under-secretary . |
| 11 | In the spring of 1932 , when I was ten years old , we heard rumours that my father was to be transferred to Italy . |
| 12 | One other one , if I may just , that I 've just remembered that A lady who had a Again this is when I was big removals . |
| 13 | Think it was last was it last Monday when I was next door for coffee ? |
| 14 | ‘ When I was asked to speak on this happy occasion , my mind went back to when I was seven years old and with my twin brother and others , we were being prepared for first Holy Communion . |
| 15 | They 've er they 've done fairly well there with Perhaps if it 's happen to be a time when I 'm busy Richard you might do it as vice chairman . |
| 16 | know when I 'm beaten sir . |
| 17 | I would add only that the cost of insurance in Belgium , where I was general manager of a major insurance company for nine years , is much higher than in Britain , and the rate of inflation has now steadied after a major explosion when these factors were introduced . |
| 18 | So was I. The expectant mother was sixteen years old and one of my students at the school in Barcelona where I was five months into my first teaching job . |
| 19 | so he said I said I do n't have to tell you where I were last night David , I were out , so I said even if I were in it 's none of your concern I said what I do in my private time is up to me , he said well why was n't you there ? |