Example sentences of "when i grow up " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted to be Agnetha , the blonde one , when I grew up . ’ |
| 2 | Sukenick has also gone on record as seeing writing as an essentially adversarial activity : ‘ When I grew up , I grew up with an idea of writing as a form of resistance to the establishment and culture at large ’ ( Sukenick 1985 : 139 ) . |
| 3 | As Jean points out : ‘ When I grew up , my Mum did nothing else but cook our food ; her contemporaries did n't work . |
| 4 | When I grew up , young people had various ways of intimating to each other a desire to become better acquainted , but playing footsie-footsie was not generally one of them . |
| 5 | When I grew up , opera had all the allure of a thé dansant on Bournemouth pier . |
| 6 | When I grew up I would become a man in the way that other girls would become nurses or teachers or whatever . |
| 7 | I got full marks for composition at school by cribbing the life of Albert Schweitzer and claiming I wanted to be a missionary when I grew up . |
| 8 | I surveyed the scene around me and vowed that when I grew up I would marry a rich man who would carry me away from all this noise and squalor . |
| 9 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
| 10 | Now if you come to Caldmore , you 'll find out then that the majority of the married ladies had worked in I mean I should say that erm I know my mother was very snooty she 'd been an apprentice to some dressmakers in Street and work for one year for nothing she always used to tell me , and she was quite er toffee- nosed about these girls that used that er that used to go , well they were very respectable people , and when I was a kid when I growing up in my teens a lot of the girls I used to know were in the offices at er it they employed about fifteen hundred people at in those days you know I mean coming out of at night it was fighting your way against the crowd if you were going towards it , and the same thing going through the square for people who have worked in when they left that 's why all those shops in the square used to do reasonably well , it was the people walking through to go up the other side of Walsall , but there was a crowd of people I can , I can always remember as a kid a crowd of people and then there 'd be well you can tell it was along Street in those days I can remember fruiters ' carts where the girls used to go and buy apples , and that all sort of going along there you know people used to wait for them coming out , these are my impressions as a kid I mean I can remember the , the er and the men of course were cutters and various people and a quite a lot of my father 's friends were , were er had er skilled jobs at as cutters and managers of the cutters ' department and that sort of thing . |
| 11 | When I grow up , I thought , I 'm going to join the Socialist Party and become a spy . |
| 12 | ‘ Hope I get legs like yours when I grow up . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I should like to marry Tory when I grow up , ’ he told Marie decisively during a rainy afternoon which drove the children in to the chilly shelter of the Aberknowe kitchen . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh I 'm Vanessa , and when I grow up I 'm going to be an actress . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ When I grow up I 'll make sure I 've always got enough money for a whole pound of sausages and eggs to go with them , ’ Sally thought , but she never said anything . |
| 16 | I think I might consider a medical career when I grow up . |
| 17 | When I grow up |
| 18 | History of searching for a role ( ‘ What will I be when I grow up ? ’ ) . |
| 19 | When I grow up I 'd like to be … |
| 20 | When I grow up . |
| 21 | ‘ When I grow up , ’ he said , smiling at her phrase , ‘ I do n't want my life to be anything like theirs . |
| 22 | when I grow up . |
| 23 | I would I 'd like to be a dance teacher when I grow up and in my spare time I would do I would like to do dancing and swimming . |
| 24 | when I grow up mummy I 'll |
| 25 | I bet you when I grow up I 'll be tall |