Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All about how he was a bit of a shit , and you could n't get it out of your mind while you were reading The Waste Land . |
| 2 | Indeed , rumours about Ruthven were rife — how he was a warlock because he was left-handed and talked to his cat . |
| 3 | Always had , from when he were a lad . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The large , powerful mammal possibly represents his parents when he was a child . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He used to visit the graveyard sometimes when he was a child and just wander about reading the headstones . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | His parents , brother and sister emigrated to the United States when he was a youngster and he was brought up by his grandmother , and it was only the lack of cricket in America which later deterred him from joining them . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , but what about before the Falklands war , when he was a youngster , before he was commissioned ? |
| 11 | Leeds did n't want to know when he was a youngster . |
| 12 | I mean , I bet he never complained when he got 8 weeks off when he was a boy . |
| 13 | They still use the horse and dray , which he remembers going out on when he was a boy . |
| 14 | Over these erm past couple of weeks we 've been looking at er some of the questions in the New Testament , we thought a couple of weeks back of the question that Jesus asked his disciples , do you think I 'm able to do this and then last week we looked at a question that the disciples put to Jesus , that time when they came down from the mountain and they found the re , three of them came down with Jesus from the mountain of transfiguration and they found the other disciples with a man who and a , whose son was demon possessed and er they had been unable to help him and the man or brings his son to Jesus and Jesus delivers him and afterwards the disciples who had been so helpless put the question to Jesus , why could we not cast out this demon and this morning I 'd like us to look at another question , we 've got another one today and one God willing next week , er and the question is , is found in Luke chapter thirteen , let me just read a few verses , because of course it 's , it 's not just the questions , it 's the answers that are important as well in Luke chapter thirteen , gon na read from verse twenty two it says in Jesus was passing through from one city and village to another , teaching and proceeding on his way to Jerusalem now that gives us a clue in that , because Jesus only ever went to Jerusalem apart from when he was a boy , he only ever went to Jerusalem once and that , after since that time , and that was when he was crucified , so Jesus was now on his way to Jerusalem , it was the latter days , the latter weeks of the life of Jesus , he was making his way now to Jerusalem and someone said to him Lord are there just a few who are being saved and Jesus said to hi , to them , strive to enter by the narrow door for many I tell you will seek to enter and will not be able , once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open to us , then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you are from , then you will begin to say we ate and drank in your presence and you taught in our streets , and he will say I tell you I do not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers , there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth there , when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the profits in the kingdom of God , but yourselves being cast out and they will come from East and West and from North and South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , and behold some ar some are last who will be first and some are first who will be last , so it 's just that question then , let's remind ourselves that is put to Jesus Lord are there just a few who are being saved |
| 15 | That was when he was a backbencher , but it did n't . |
| 16 | Long ago , when he was a cadet at O.C.T.U. , he had written : ‘ I feel such an ache of longing for you . |
| 17 | He was the same Michael , but grown up , and just as engaging and delightful to work with as when he was a kid . ’ |
| 18 | Kept absolutely meticulous accounts , even in the old days when he was a kid . |
| 19 | During the 1950s , when he was a member of the Cyprus Geological Survey , Gass mapped the Troodos massif and worried about its origin . |
| 20 | This month we 've got the second of Cliff Gallup 's exciting solos from Race With The Devil , recorded in 1956 , when he was a member of Eugene Vincent Craddock 's Blue Caps ( yes , that 's Gene Vincent ! ) |
| 21 | Stan Tempest , 70 , first met George Whitbread when he was a member of 76 Bomber Squadron based at RAF Middleton St George outside Darlington in 1941 . |
| 22 | I know when he was a kiddy he 'd never eat them |
| 23 | He was in all the conservation groups when he was a student , but his big thing was animals . ’ |
| 24 | Did n't you say he was keen on animal rights when he was a student with you ? ’ |
| 25 | But a nice idea , yeah , he 's saying before long tens of thousands of schools will have sprung up in the villages throughout the province erm and that , that basically the peasants like the old style schools which is basically a Chinese way of teaching as opposed to erm the education which the landlords received which is the foreign school and he 's saying how when he was a student erm you know he used to think that the foreign style schools were groovy er but has now realized that actually , you know , being , I mean |
| 26 | For one thing I I do n't think that the next generation of parents are going to stand it because with the , cos I told you what , what I said Neil about erm when er when he was a father I said if you had a pretty fifteen year old daughter would you want to have some rough oaf taking her down a back alley and screwing her ? |
| 27 | ‘ Not like when he was a baby and his father was in France until he was about three . ’ |
| 28 | , I remember right from when he was a baby as I went to see him the day his mum brought him home . |
| 29 | 17 year old Andrew died this year when he was a passenger in a car driven by a drunken friend . |
| 30 | His interests extended to Taff Vale in south Wales where he was a part-owner of an ironworks with John Hanbury of Pontypool [ q.v. ] , the inventor of the rolling process used in the manufacture of tinplate . |