Example sentences of "i [was/were] a lad " in BNC.
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| 1 | The feel is still that of an acoustic , but it 's less stiff and unyielding than the traditional flat-top box — light years away , in fact , from the cheese-grater regime prevalent when I were a lad . |
| 2 | I 've been like it since I were a lad I 'ad a operation for adenoids and summat went wrong " |
| 3 | When I were a lad , a volley meant you hit it before it had touched the ground . |
| 4 | WHEN I were a lad I had one great driving ambition in life . |
| 5 | I remember it when I were a lad . |
| 6 | when , when I were a lad |
| 7 | Moreover when there were fights , observed the chairman of the Birmingham City Supporters ' Club , ‘ it was punch-ups among men in those days … when I was a lad , if I stepped out of line I got a bloody good hiding from my Dad ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ See , I think the machines started to get a hold of me when I was a lad . |
| 9 | Inflation here has been rampant , the charge for admission having increased sixty-fold since I was a lad . |
| 10 | ‘ Used to come up here quite a lot when I was a lad , ’ he said , mopping his forehead . |
| 11 | They took the paddies when I was a lad . |
| 12 | I was a lad , and there was a farm not far off us . |
| 13 | What shocks you now — and would have shocked me when I was a lad — it just rolls off these kids like rain off a duck 's back . ’ |
| 14 | Unfortunately , I had not read Mary Shelley 's novel since I was a lad ; such recollection of it as I had was obscured by the travesties of it I had watched in 4-D on film , TV , and CirC . |
| 15 | We used to hunt rats in the basement and put them in the traps , when I was a lad . ’ |
| 16 | well it was from school when I was a lad . |
| 17 | ‘ When I was a lad I would go down there with him . |
| 18 | When I was a lad a man went in the ar , he hooked up with the army if he 'd got no trade and no hope |
| 19 | When I was a lad I could have seventy for them , I sat on there and I licked it up , er , a good afternoon , I was just having a break by sands , I said when I was a lad I could have seventy ice creams |
| 20 | When I was a lad I could have seventy for them , I sat on there and I licked it up , er , a good afternoon , I was just having a break by sands , I said when I was a lad I could have seventy ice creams |