Example sentences of "father [vb past] [conj] i [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , my father came and I was discharged and taken home . |
| 2 | My father died when I was fifteen . |
| 3 | My father died when I was five , and left me a large sum of money in trust until my twenty-fifth birthday . |
| 4 | My father died when I was only two . |
| 5 | My father died when I was quite young and at ten years of age I went into a poor old orphanage where I stayed four years . |
| 6 | My father died when I was one week old , so I was the Queen of Scots when I was a baby . |
| 7 | ‘ My father died when I was twenty , ’ Travis responded , but his voice seemed distant , as if he was forcing it . |
| 8 | The other thing my father said when I was |
| 9 | ‘ My father retired when I was 10 years old and I started in 1980 . ’ |