Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [art] child " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was so proud of you — as proud as though you 'd been a child of mine trying to walk . |
| 2 | I hated being a child , apart from knowing you . |
| 3 | Though Maggie was eighteen , tall and attractive , she was still as much in awe of Moran as when she had been a child . |
| 4 | Asked if he had been a child prodigy , he would answer : ‘ Yes I was — and I still am . ’ |
| 5 | Mr Gaskin had been a child in care of the local authority . |
| 6 | The sole conclusion I feel able to draw is that your young lady had been a child prostitute . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The girl had advanced syphilis ; she had been a child prostitute . ’ |
| 8 | When she had been a child , those holidays had seemed magical , a time when everyday concerns were put in perspective by the rhythm of village life . |
| 9 | When Meredith had been a child , her father always read A Christmas Carol aloud to his family on Christmas Eve . |
| 10 | Before papa died she had been a child , spoiled and cosseted and it was a pity she had not grown up a bit more quickly . |
| 11 | His mind was the richest repository of the past : he had been a child oblate at Canterbury before the Conquest ; he had heard all the gossip of the older monks as a child , and he remembered as an adult all that he had heard . |
| 12 | Where he had been a child , when the fox came at night around the barricaded chicken houses then the old bugger always scented the chicken house sides , left his stirik , boasted that he had been there . |
| 13 | And I knew I had been a child when I first came to live with him . |
| 14 | He had been curled up there , dead in his basket , since I had been a child in a velvet-collared coat . |
| 15 | I think it was his fourth , but as I had been a child during this proliferation of fiancées I was n't certain . |
| 16 | He cut another slice and then he leaned across and buttered it for her , as if she had been a child . |
| 17 | The new Queen was the child of love , while Mary had been the child of hatred . |
| 18 | ‘ The last thing my mother wanted was a child underfoot while she was dealing with a baby . |