Example sentences of "was a [noun] i " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ If I was a Romany I 'd have ended up fighting Nahum , ’ said Seb , trying not to allow the emotion he felt to show . |
| 2 | John MacEwen said he 'd follow me in his pick-up , and that the journey would probably kill him , but it was a chance I had to take , he was definitely going to die if I left him there . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Ever since I was a boy I have dreamed of playing at St Andrews in God 's country . ’ |
| 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 | It was a syndrome I had observed in other service marriages , not least in that of my own parents , and I have sometimes thought what a good subject it might make for a novel or play . |
| 8 | And er , there was a bloke I used to play football . |
| 9 | I thought that this was a painting I should n't discuss with Lili , but only when I had walked to the end of the gallery to look at an innocuous picture of a group of long-haired sheep did I ask myself what Robert had been doing in Marie Claire 's bedroom . |
| 10 | This was a Karen I had n't seen before , and one I did n't have much time for , to be frank . |
| 11 | I felt I could pretend that you were , it was a secret I had , I almost told you once or twice , but I thought that it might spoil things , that … |
| 12 | ‘ I thought it was a weakness I had but it was n't — it proved to be my strength . |
| 13 | It was a pity I detested both sea-food and olive oil . |
| 14 | ‘ He said it was a pity I had n't come to him before , when the evidence was there that he was living with this woman , because now the bungalow 's been sold and she 's disappeared . |
| 15 | Then he looked at the old eagle again and shaking his head said , ‘ During the last war when I was a prisoner I knew men who were nearer to death than this and yet by some force of will or perhaps some power greater than us they survived . |
| 16 | The first person I ever came out to as a student was a person I suspected of being gay and everyone else thought he was gay ; in fact , he vehemently denied it after I came out . |
| 17 | ‘ ¿Qué te parece Peru ? — How does Peru appear to you ? — was a question I was often asked . |
| 18 | How susceptible my brother would be to whatever vibes I could send out was a question I did n't like too much to think about , given the state of his head , but I had to do something . |
| 19 | Before we leave erm seventeen fours erm sheet , the there was a question I 'd have , I think it 's probably addressed to Graham rather than anything , nothing personal about this , er , the actual state of equivalent in the month , the third figure down in the last box |
| 20 | When I was a child I believed my father when he said he would live to be a hundred . |
| 21 | " 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 . |
| 22 | Even when I was a child I was entranced by her . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ 'When I was a child I spake as a child , I understood as a child , I thought as a child , but when I became a man , I put away childish things . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | If it was a child I 'd say here you sit up properly . |
| 27 | That I only half-believed in this self-image — and even that is probably an overstatement — was a circumstance I tried desperately hard to conceal , both from myself and others . |
| 28 | There was a desk I was fond of , it 's true . |
| 29 | Once having framed the thought in my mind that I was a lesbian I found myself unable to keep silent about it . |
| 30 | It was a treat I will always remember . |