Example sentences of "when [pron] be [art] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I was a boy my parents had a bookshop like this in Plymouth . |
| 2 | Oh it worked all right , there was very little manure used when I was a boy you used ware . |
| 3 | And , ‘ When I was a boy it was always considered bad form to talk about food or money . |
| 4 | I was nourished on stories like these ; William Wallace , slaying half a dozen English soldiers with his fishing rod ; Bruce , before Bannockburn , felling an English knight with one stroke from his slender battle-axe ; and when I was a boy I contracted a mortal dread of dying in bed . |
| 5 | When I was a boy I belonged to a small Christian sect that was my whole world . |
| 6 | ‘ When I was a boy I knew your part of the country very well , ’ he said . |
| 7 | When I was a boy there were hundreds of fishing boats . |
| 8 | When I was a child they killed one close by me and I heard the squealing . |
| 9 | when I was a child they were much bigger than that |
| 10 | ‘ Dear me , when I was a child we went to church twice every Sunday . |
| 11 | When I was a child we had two bay-coloured horses , and I later got to know them very well . |
| 12 | When I was a child we used to play this slightly differently in that the key was ‘ glass ’ . |
| 13 | When I was a child my father would tease me with two conundrums : ‘ What happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object ? ’ and ‘ If you discovered a substance that destroyed every solid , how would you contain it ? ’ |
| 14 | When I was a child my grandparents took us away . |
| 15 | When I was a child there was a damp place in the long meadow where there used to be a lovely yellow flower we call butterballs , and children would bring them for the teacher . |
| 16 | When I was a child he was selling insurance , then he was offloading imported sheepskin coats in the London street markets , then it was free range eggs . |
| 17 | When I was a child I believed my father when he said he would live to be a hundred . |
| 18 | " When I was a child I used to imagine the moor belonged to me , that I was a young prince or the heir to an estate or something . |
| 19 | Even when I was a child I was entranced by her . |
| 20 | When I was a child I could remember gatherings of two or three hundred people , but there were less than a hundred out on the dry grass . |
| 21 | When I was a child I once went round the house tearing all the stickers off ; I was belted and sent to my room for two days . |
| 22 | Ian Cameron , the party 's candidate in Hartlepool , said : ‘ When I was a child you could leave your back door open all night but you ca n't now . |
| 23 | ‘ When I was a kid our family was constantly moving , between the UK , Cyprus and Singapore . |
| 24 | I can , could apart from , from that , this operation I never had any illnesses , not when I was a kid you know , not until later on . |
| 25 | He said , ‘ When I was a kid I saw that film , and I wanked for days on end . |
| 26 | When I was a kid I loved the seashore for its mix of beautiful , subtle colours and strong smells . |
| 27 | When I was a kid I was in a house that got stuck . ’ |
| 28 | When I was a kid I used to practise stalking up the stairs . |
| 29 | I mean , when I , when I was a kid I got , erm , I was given an Australian doll baby , and which was funny cos it had an amazing sun tan and dark blue eyes and blonde hair , like typical Ozzie child . |
| 30 | When I was a kid it was great because you could go to the music store , put down your money and get something like an SG Junior — not an expensive guitar but a really good guitar all the same , a guitar you could keep for life . |