Example sentences of "be [num] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | alright he 's met you for five minutes but he 's come here I said this gang of children , I said the poor bugger 's not going to know what hit him I said alright if it 's just for Sally 's three I said he 's gon na be , he 's not gon na be relaxed I said I know that for a fact I said I know what it was like when I used to go and visit your people when I was |
| 2 | It is I who owed them everything . |
| 3 | When I was three I hit my knee |
| 4 | ‘ When I was 17 I had nothing , I sold drugs to make money . |
| 5 | By the time I was 18 I had my first group — all kids from my neighbourhood . |
| 6 | and she said well we 've got , for instance , one of my favourite patience is the girl of er , I think she 's nineteen , and er , she 's in their because her father had raped her since she was about eight , when she was sixteen she killed him , well I said well I think she should have been given a medal . |
| 7 | So seriously , too , did I take myself in it , that from the time I was sixteen I found myself hardly letting a week pass without writing one or two descriptions — of a man , or a place , or a walk — in a manner largely founded on Jefferies ' Amateur Poacher , Kingsley 's Prose Idylls , and Mr. Francis A. Knight 's weekly contributions to the Daily News , but doubtless with tones supplied also by Shelley and Keats , and later on by Ruskin , De Quincey , Pater , and Sir Thomas Browne … |
| 8 | By the time I was ten it seemed I had lived backstage to so many of those early film sets . |
| 9 | When he was seventeen he lost his driving licence after receiving 27 speeding summonses . |
| 10 | All but two of them had been abused and I remember one girl saying to me , ‘ By the time I was nine I knew what it was all about . ’ |
| 11 | When I was eighteen she gave me the job of housekeeper in the big cottage she kept at Streatlam to entertain her friends coming to swim in the pool and play tennis . |
| 12 | The year I was eighteen I left our town for college . |
| 13 | Because , now Lyndsey joined it and he , he said like when he was eighteen he knew it all , and he says you were watching men of twenty who 'd just joined at training |
| 14 | When I was two I buckled my shoe |