Example sentences of "be [adj] when [art] [noun sg] [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 Grandfather , the youngest son of Count Nikolai Denknetzeyan , was nineteen when the revolution broke out .
2 Club member Harry Porter ( born 1902 ) was six when the course opened and he remembers dimly walking the first hole with the crowd .
3 I suppose I was ten when the school said I could n't see .
4 I suppose I was ten when the school said I could n't see .
5 ‘ I was 20 when the change came , ’ he recalls .
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