Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slater glanced at Graham , " Sara and I were next-door neighbours for a while , I do believe our parents may even have intended us for each other at one time , without actually saying anything about it , of course . " |
| 2 | He came to me He had a problem , he and I were good friends and he said that erm that this one girl s erm Michelle , was his favourite wife and that he had been with her since erm she was twelve . |
| 3 | Szell and I were great friends . |
| 4 | Cos I were twenty minutes over the |
| 5 | If I were growing potatoes , like most sensible gardeners I 'd let them grow . |
| 6 | If I were ten years younger , my girl , I should come and carry you away myself . ’ |
| 7 | The flight engineer and I were one-time apprentices at Trenchard 's , Halton , and he had left the Service at the end of his 12 years and returned when the war started . |
| 8 | I was twenty-two years old , and had never had any industrial experience of any sort . |
| 9 | I was twenty-two years old . |
| 10 | Changez 's brother sent him money , too , which was unusual , because it should have been the other way round as Changez made his way in the affluent West , but I was sure celebrations in India at Changez 's departure were still taking place . |
| 11 | I think a lot of it was severe stress and exhaustion : I was 27 years old and I 'd been on the road for about ten years of my life and that band was just so much bigger in people 's minds than it was in reality . |
| 12 | I was eighteen years old . |
| 13 | In 1958 I was eighteen years old , but already had British Open experience , so I was n't completely over-awed at carrying such a great player 's bag . |
| 14 | I was eighteen years old in sixty-four |
| 15 | Twenty years ago I joined the Labour Party when I was eighteen years old which gives an idea of how old I am now . |
| 16 | But I was n't there , and this is to your advantage because I 'm not going to harp on about my favourite Shankly saying , or pretend I was close friends with the man like certain people do . |
| 17 | I was seventy-five years old , you daft bugger , d' you seriously think it was your fault , just because you got your leg over some Judy ? |
| 18 | You know I was four bottles short one day . |
| 19 | When I was four years old the book reads : ‘ Very fond of dressing up , especially in an old nylon nightdress ’ — ‘ the princess dress … ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I fell out of a tree when I was four years old . |
| 21 | Although these rules were constantly adjusted under pressure , it was not until 1932 ( when I was four years old ) that the principle of free places in selective secondary academic schools — grammar schools , — for short — was directly challenged . |
| 22 | I was four years younger . |
| 23 | I was four years old when my mother died . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I told you — when I was four years old . |
| 25 | Until I was four years old this sort of behaviour continued , then a brother was born and when I saw him , my first frightened question was : " Can he read ? " |
| 26 | I said I was eight-and-a-half months . |
| 27 | Erm with regard to the leather trade , I worked for until I was fifty until I was fifty-four years old . |
| 28 | This is coming from a 34-year-old goat-mad , nut — but one who also understands the needs and wants of goats , as I have been keeping goats since I was 16 years old . |
| 29 | Jean Sparse , Toddington Drive , Norton , Stockton : I was 16 years old and working in my late father 's general dealers shop in Hartlepool when a customer came in and said the King had died . |
| 30 | From my point of view it was a complete success — fun , interesting and the chance for me to meet someone whom I 'd admired from afar since I was 14 years old . |