Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [art] child " in BNC.

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1 You may be a dragon , but I am a child .
2 The phrases used are different but the message is the same , ‘ I approve of myself , ‘ I am a child of the Universe ’ , ‘ I relax and trust in life ’ .
3 I 'll tell you if I want to , he thinks I am a child .
4 I 'm a child of the revolution .
5 You ca n't feel benevolent and sympathetic , you ca n't just want everything to be nice , as if Jack were a child , and as if I were a child .
6 She gave me all the blobs of cream on the raspberry fool , as if I were a child .
7 Look , I appreciate the use of the bathroom , but that damn well does n't give you the right to stand there with that superior look on your face , lecturing me as if I were a child . ’
8 I 'm sick of the way you 've treated me , as if I were a child who 's misbehaved . ’
9 I have no desire to be watched over as though I were a child — but I promise I 'll let you know if I have any problems . ’
10 If I was a child being sexually abused , would I want it stopped , would I want someone to notice ?
11 ‘ One day , ’ as one Pakistani girl in Bradford said , ‘ I was a child playing out of doors , the next I was a married woman with a life full of work . ’
12 ‘ Dear me , when I was a child we went to church twice every Sunday .
13 Even when I was a child , I behaved as if I were one . ’
14 If you had told me about that when I was a child , I would n't have believed you .
15 I recall listening to him tell it to visitors when I was a child , and then later , when I was starting out as a footman under his supervision .
16 When I was a child I believed my father when he said he would live to be a hundred .
17 ‘ Almost for the first time since I was a child , ’ I thought , ‘ I am glad that it is my birthday .
18 When I was a child , there was a man who came to our chapel in an invalid chair .
19 And I hate being called ‘ dear ’ or ‘ darling ’ just as if I was a child . ’
20 Another place across the dale from us was East New Houses , where a maiden lady lived when I was a child .
21 When I was a child we had two bay-coloured horses , and I later got to know them very well .
22 When I was a child they killed one close by me and I heard the squealing .
23 When I was a child we used to play this slightly differently in that the key was ‘ glass ’ .
24 ‘ I 've loved you ever since I was a child and I shall always love you .
25 When I was a child and had never even heard the word ‘ regression ’ , I was always fascinated by anything to do with the Tudor period of English history .
26 ‘ When I was a child , ’ she said , ‘ I used to think that you could look into anybody 's eyes , anybody 's , and see through them right into their soul .
27 ‘ My mother ’ , Ivy said , ‘ told me that when I was a child , she spent all the year looking out for small things to put in my stocking .
28 I was a child .
29 Life may be easier there today , but when I was a child few people had cars and buses were infrequent .
30 ( At least , there were fewer when I was a child than there are today . )
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