Example sentences of "i [was/were] a child " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She gave me all the blobs of cream on the raspberry fool , as if I were a child . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm sick of the way you 've treated me , as if I were a child who 's misbehaved . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | If I was a child being sexually abused , would I want it stopped , would I want someone to notice ? |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Dear me , when I was a child we went to church twice every Sunday . |
| 9 | Even when I was a child , I behaved as if I were one . ’ |
| 10 | If you had told me about that when I was a child , I would n't have believed you . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | When I was a child I believed my father when he said he would live to be a hundred . |
| 13 | ‘ Almost for the first time since I was a child , ’ I thought , ‘ I am glad that it is my birthday . |
| 14 | When I was a child , there was a man who came to our chapel in an invalid chair . |
| 15 | And I hate being called ‘ dear ’ or ‘ darling ’ just as if I was a child . ’ |
| 16 | Another place across the dale from us was East New Houses , where a maiden lady lived when I was a child . |
| 17 | When I was a child we had two bay-coloured horses , and I later got to know them very well . |
| 18 | When I was a child they killed one close by me and I heard the squealing . |
| 19 | When I was a child we used to play this slightly differently in that the key was ‘ glass ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've loved you ever since I was a child and I shall always love you . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | I was a child . |
| 25 | Life may be easier there today , but when I was a child few people had cars and buses were infrequent . |
| 26 | ( At least , there were fewer when I was a child than there are today . ) |
| 27 | ‘ From the time I was a child my dream was to win the Grand National and the biggest thing I 've gained from it is confidence . |
| 28 | 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 ? ’ |
| 29 | When I was a child , my family had a housekeeper of uncertain temper and Thurberesque character . |
| 30 | I was a child prodigy . |