Example sentences of "i [was/were] a boy " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only if I were a boy could I ask girls out on dates ; only if I were a boy could I have sexual contact with girls . |
| 2 | Only if I were a boy could I ask girls out on dates ; only if I were a boy could I have sexual contact with girls . |
| 3 | ‘ When I was a boy in Harlan County we were real poor and every morning I used to wake up and look out of my bedroom window at this mountain called Gray 's Knob . |
| 4 | When I was a boy |
| 5 | I had long hair , then my mum cut it off and it was really short , so I think everyone thought I was a boy anyway . |
| 6 | ‘ Ever since I was a boy , I 've been making models and carvings , ’ he said . |
| 7 | When I was a boy in Salzburg two or three hundred people might hear a concert , listening to something that the great majority of people outside the concert-hall had no knowledge or understanding of . |
| 8 | I have not been kind to my back ; I had accidents when I was a boy , tree-climbing and biking , and I have spent many years skiing . |
| 9 | I was a boy again in a world where other people always knew best . |
| 10 | I was a boy of about thirteen snows when my parents sent me away into the hills … to find my Wyakin . |
| 11 | I have carried a heavy load on my back ever since I was a boy . |
| 12 | ‘ I used to go there every day when I was a boy . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Not like the old , stiff , black ones I used to have when I was a boy . |
| 15 | When I was a boy , God was always at home . |
| 16 | It was something I 'd dreamed of since I was a boy humping golf-bags nearly as big as me . |
| 17 | When I was a boy , a great uncle-in-law died of cancer , as did my mother-in-law in later years . |
| 18 | When I was a boy there were hundreds of fishing boats . |
| 19 | When I was a boy Milford Street always seemed very busy , maybe because it was the nearest main thoroughfare to my Culver Street home . |
| 20 | The front door had been beautifully oak grained , this is today almost a lost art , although when I was a boy , every painter worth his salt would not only copy woods but also marble . |
| 21 | ‘ You would n't believe the power the old-time underwriters had when I was a boy . |
| 22 | When I was a boy of fourteen , my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand the old man around . |
| 23 | ‘ Ever since I was a boy I have dreamed of playing at St Andrews in God 's country . ’ |
| 24 | When I was a boy I belonged to a small Christian sect that was my whole world . |
| 25 | He taught me when I was a boy . |
| 26 | And , ‘ When I was a boy it was always considered bad form to talk about food or money . |
| 27 | TV did n't exist when I was a boy . |
| 28 | ‘ And that was from people who I knew , who I had played cricket with since I was a boy and it really hurt . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Used to do this sort of thing when I was a boy , ’ he said . |
| 30 | WHEN I was a boy , running naked daubed in human blood with the Mod gangs of pre-Thatcherite East Devon , we read NME and Sounds and spat the venomous arguments of Burchill , Morley and Baker in the faces of the sofa-lounging Genesis fans of the soft sixth form . |