Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [noun pl] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Jaysus is n't that great , if you were six years older I 'd take you into Shea 's and put you up on my knee and buy you a gin and it . ’ |
2 | Yes , well it 's Sunday night and they 're always fighting and that and he , he came out four rows of the bow wi , they were twelve inches square he kicked three of them in ! |
3 | If she were several sizes larger she could have them . ’ |
4 | The South West had 10 players from champions Bath and Barnes added : ‘ When we were 14 points adrift I regarded that as an Alpine peak to climb — not a Himalayan . |
5 | The six fish grew into fine glowing Cardinals and when they were seven months old I decided to try and breed a pair from this group . |
6 | When I was eight years old I joined our school choir . |
7 | — Mind , if I was fifty years younger I 'd be after him myself ! — A right charmer and no mistake ! ’ |
8 | From when I was eleven years old I felt totally alone . |
9 | but when I was eleven years old I did n't look at the sixth form and do jus just because they were doing something I wanted to do it , I might have admired them but if they were smoking that would n't make me want to smoke . |
10 | If I was 12 years old I 'd be squealing in the stalls as well . |
11 | A long time ago when I was six years old me and Neil went out mise chifing I chut a stown and it naile it a wondow then we ran off then we came to somedody garben then we clad up there tree and shouted fatet . |
12 | When she was thirteen years old she was already showing signs of disruptive , disturbed behaviour . |
13 | When Eva was three years old she was taken by train to the city . |
14 | When Anna was three years old it was decided to put her in foal , but many nose twitches , injections , and rectal examinations later , she was still not pregnant ; so she was sold . |
15 | When he was sixty years old he retired , and for Jane 's sake , she being a country person at heart , and thinking she would be happy there , bought a cottage in Hampshire . |
16 | Since she was fourteen months old she has spent hours in them . |
17 | Since I was ten years old I walked about our little town mentally transforming every womon I saw into a man and every man into a womon . |
18 | When I was ten years old I was taken by my parents to see my first play at the Royal Theatre . |
19 | When she was ten years old she discovered that she had a past . |
20 | By the time I was twelve years old I had been thinking for some time about getting a bird of my own . |
21 | And sort of , dead down to earth and everything and it showed you a clip out of National Velvet when she was twelve years old you know erm that with the horse in it and that ? |
22 | When he was five years old he lost his guide when out riding ; frightened by the ‘ horrid imaginations ’ conjured up by the inscription in the turf , he saw a pool , a beacon , and a woman . |
23 | yeah he was five years old he was |
24 | When Andy was fifteen years old he began working during his vacation periods at the local driving range near Bushey in Hertfordshire collecting practice balls . |
25 | When I was nine months old I was taken out to India by my parents who had a theatre company — they still have it , in fact , and they still tour . |
26 | When he was twenty months old he became ill . |
27 | Thérèse 's first word was Rose , and by the time she was eighteen months old she could say cow , apple , duck , cake , dog . |
28 | When the boy was two months old they had come to take him away . |
29 | And as I had told you before on the previous er chat we had , how my father took over er when when I was two years old we moved up . |
30 | When she was two years old she had seemed to be of a cheerful disposition and laughed obediently when he made a witch out of his knotted handkerchief or cast a swan 's shadow against her bedroom wall with his fingers . |