Example sentences of "[pers pn] was ten [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was ten times worse myself and got over it on my feet , ’ he said in casual dismissal , opening his raincoat and reaching inside for a cigarette . |
| 2 | I stood there , I could n't say anything , he made me furious , they made me furious and anyhow I was ten times more embarrassed than furious . |
| 3 | and I was ten stone two |
| 4 | I used to be ten stone , er all my life I was ten stone seven , eleven stone |
| 5 | I played football for , when I was ten year old ! |
| 6 | maybe before I was ten year old , turning the handle of the wap mill as they called it . |
| 7 | I had been told about periods at primary school when I was ten years old , but apart from that , the only information I had was what I got through talking to friends at school , because some had older sisters who had already started . |
| 8 | When I was ten years old the first sensational accounts of ‘ sex-changes ’ appeared in the Sunday papers . |
| 9 | Since I was ten years old I walked about our little town mentally transforming every womon I saw into a man and every man into a womon . |
| 10 | When I was ten years old somehow choosing to be a boy seemed a good idea , a logical plan to follow . |
| 11 | I was ten years old and was the shortest , skinniest and sickliest kid in town . |
| 12 | Well I was selling papers when I was ten years old ten years old . |
| 13 | ‘ I was ten years younger when I had it made . |
| 14 | In the spring of 1932 , when I was ten years old , we heard rumours that my father was to be transferred to Italy . |
| 15 | When I was ten years old I was taken by my parents to see my first play at the Royal Theatre . |
| 16 | Well there used to be one on the corner of Street and Street that was , that was a pawnshop right opposite the churches facing it the church were on the one corner Street and used to be on the opposite corner , and Johnny was a member of the church choir as I was after I was ten years ol ten years old , I Mr he must have thought I could sing he sent me down to St Paul 's and I , I went to St Paul 's Church on the corner of Street and I did n't stay there long because it was I was still working part- time I was still a schoolboy but er I did sing in the choir at St Paul 's Church for a time , and then I went , I went back to St Mary 's and All Saints in Palfry as a choirboy and er we used to have choir practice once or twice a week , I know we had it Wednesday night , the choir master was Albert Edward he was a butcher , kept a butcher 's shop on the corner of and |
| 17 | By dawn I was ten miles behind the lines . |
| 18 | I actually heard the bone break though I was ten paces away . |
| 19 | No she 's lost four stone , she was ten stone four . |
| 20 | But she said to me , she goes er last Friday night she was ten pounds down . |
| 21 | He watched his aunt and Miss Williams wordlessly consult each other , but knew his aunt would do as she was told ; successful solicitor though she was , she was ten years younger than Miss Williams and , as she complained , totally intimidated by her as she had not been by anyone since her late headmistress . |
| 22 | By the time she was ten years old the nearest she came to having a bath was to stand on the bathmat and sponge herself down . |
| 23 | Alice went up to her room , and squatted down in the corner where her bed had been , the narrow white bed she had slept in since she was ten years old . |
| 24 | When she was ten years old she discovered that she had a past . |
| 25 | She was ten years older than me and already married to Jens , himself the youngest son of a neighbouring farmer , without property of his own . |
| 26 | Claire , who is 17 , started playing squash when she was ten years old at Ellon Squash Club . |
| 27 | The presentation had been quite an unnecessary proceeding , as she and Uncle Orrin Tunstall had agreed , seeing that she had met and known both the King and Queen since she was ten years old and had first visited England with her mama and papa . |
| 28 | She used to sing at parties and school discos when she was ten years old , and wishes she 'd made a record . |
| 29 | Judge Clark said that he was not reducing her sentence because she was a woman but because she was ten years younger than the other two and had two children depending on her . |
| 30 | The family agreed to an authorised biography and Forster started reading du Maurier 's letters , begun when she was ten years old writing to her governess — nearly 30 years of unbroken correspondence . |