Example sentences of "i [was/were] a schoolboy " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you realise , that I 've been soldiering longer than anything else since I was a schoolboy ? |
| 2 | For what it 's worth , I was a schoolboy visiting the [ Russian ] cruiser that afternoon after school , and was on the main deck looking over the side next to the quay , when I saw a diver ( with full deep-diving headgear ) being pulled beneath the surface by two frogmen . |
| 3 | Even when I was a schoolboy I was able to disguise it because my parents made sure that I had the best of footwear specially made to build up my right foot without making it obvious that this was the case . |
| 4 | I felt as if I was a schoolboy who had done something wrong and was being taken to see the headmaster . |
| 5 | When I was a schoolboy in Cornwall , helping with the milk round , I tried to augment my pocket money by scraping laver bread off the rocks . |
| 6 | But , as you say , I was a schoolboy . ’ |
| 7 | When I was a schoolboy , elderly textbook authors still wrote about protoplasm although , by then , they really should have known better . |
| 8 | I asked him whether history had changed from the dull factual subject , all about kings , queens , and the Repeal of the Corn Laws , that I encountered when I was a schoolboy . |