Example sentences of "when [pers pn] was [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After my father died , when I was five and a half , she used to make me bath myself all alone . |
| 2 | I 've , I 'd got a few stares from some of the women there , I mean , there are some women there that are huge , and maybe they looked at me and thought oh I hope I can wear leggings like that one day , I mean I do n't think I look too bad in the leggings , I mean I would never have done it when I used to go to Weightwatchers when I was thirteen and a half stone , I would never of gone in leggings , no way , but it does n't |
| 3 | I did a dreadful thing , the worst thing of my life , when I was twelve and a half years old , or I feel that I did , and nothing can change it … ’ |
| 4 | When I was eighteen and a half I was let out , but I think I got institutionalised being there three and a half years , and I wanted to stay there . |
| 5 | I started school to er Bowvale School on Dovecote Lane at Eastwood , when I was two and a half . |
| 6 | I first started when I was seven and a half . |
| 7 | My parents kept a baby book about me until I was sixteen , and when I was three and a half they wrote : ‘ Takes a great interest in her clothes and chooses her own outfit each morning . |
| 8 | A MUM today hugged the new-born baby she feared might might have been injured in a hit and run car crash when she was eight and a half months pregnant . |
| 9 | When she was two and a half , we all went on holiday in France with the two boys . |
| 10 | but I , I disagree with them lending money to the extent , the old way was better when it was two and a half times the salary , your salary |
| 11 | To tell me he would , she would come when he was four and a quarter . |