Example sentences of "be [adj] when [art] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ponyboy , the main character , is 14 when the book starts , he narrates the story , as he is writing it down in essay form . |
| 2 | Grandfather , the youngest son of Count Nikolai Denknetzeyan , was nineteen when the revolution broke out . |
| 3 | Club member Harry Porter ( born 1902 ) was six when the course opened and he remembers dimly walking the first hole with the crowd . |
| 4 | I suppose I was ten when the school said I could n't see . |
| 5 | I suppose I was ten when the school said I could n't see . |
| 6 | Viktor was twelve when the war ended and by that time he had forgotten how to cry . |
| 7 | ‘ I was 20 when the change came , ’ he recalls . |