Example sentences of "[adv] he [be] [art] child " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never understood this until I realized he meant that his characters ' uselessness , indolence and longing were typical of the adults he knew when he was a child . |
| 2 | The large , powerful mammal possibly represents his parents when he was a child . |
| 3 | Imperceptibly the trees must have grown , yet they seemed to Adam no different from when he was a child coming up to fetch the milk and when , on sunless mornings , he had felt a kind of menace from the wood . |
| 4 | He used to visit the graveyard sometimes when he was a child and just wander about reading the headstones . |
| 5 | With annoying irrelevance it occurred to Quentin that the name of the film on the television screen was Three Smart Girls , which he 'd seen about thirty-five years ago , when he was a child himself . |