Example sentences of "i was [num] when [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was 37 when I arrived . |
| 2 | I was 18 when my daughter , now four , was born . |
| 3 | I was 14 when I had my first date . |
| 4 | I was 14 when I married . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ I was 14 when my dad took me across from Liverpool . |
| 6 | ‘ I was eleven when we first carne here . |
| 7 | I was fifteen when I actually left home for good . |
| 8 | As a youngster — I was twelve when I came to this country — I imagined it was only temporary . |
| 9 | ‘ I was 11 when I started saving pennies to buy my first guitar ’ , remembers Miguel . |
| 10 | I was twenty-eight when it happened , and had spent therefore a whole youth in the shadow of the British Lions . |
| 11 | I was eight when I went to proper boarding school for the first time . |
| 12 | ‘ Of course I remember her ; I was eight when she left . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I was eight when she was born . |
| 14 | As I tell children in primary schools , I was six when I had my first piece published . |
| 15 | I was twenty-one when I met Peter Sellers . |
| 16 | It was very much a brash young man 's piece — I was 24 when I wrote it . |
| 17 | ‘ I was fifty-three when I used to meet all those wonderful girls striding down the King 's Road , blonde hair flying , boots like little musketeers . |
| 18 | ‘ I was 21 when I first wrote for the NME . |
| 19 | I was 21 when I first used a prostitute . |
| 20 | I was 19 when I left home and went to university . |
| 21 | I was 22 when I had to suffer the pressure , perhaps now at 27 I would cope much better . |