Example sentences of "i [was/were] a teenager " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if I were a teenager and I saw a TV star telling me that he had taken coke , I would reckon that there must be a reason why the famous spend a fortune on this drug . |
| 2 | It was notorious when I was a teenager in Glasgow . |
| 3 | When I was a teenager and at last able to have a room of my own , the outline of a Red Indian 's face appeared as a stain on the ceiling . |
| 4 | When I was a teenager there were rows of a sort — mainly about the behaviour of my sisters — but during the whole of my childhood I can only remember one . |
| 5 | I needed to when I was a teenager . |
| 6 | Ever since I was a teenager , I have had the bad habit of pulling and twisting my hair . |
| 7 | ‘ One of the reasons you went to the cinema when I was a teenager was to pick up girls , but I never seemed to have any luck . |
| 8 | I was a teenager — and she was a 46-year-old mother of four , the former wife of the Earl of Dartmouth , with a half-page of her achievements listed in Who 's Who . |
| 9 | Even afterwards , when I was a teenager , I paid for my bad timing , coming just too early to enjoy the fun and freedom that waited round the corner . |
| 10 | When I was a teenager I was in the middle of a techno revolution , listening to Japanese avant-garde , techno and new rave bands . |
| 11 | I had two nervous breakdowns when I was a teenager . |
| 12 | When I was a teenager , I visited an African witchdoctor . |
| 13 | ‘ My parents died when I was a teenager , you see . |
| 14 | Oh well it must be my before I was a teenager . |
| 15 | This publicity is a recent development , but to tell you the truth , when I was a teenager date rape was simply a fact of life . |
| 16 | When I was a teenager she used to follow me everywhere . |
| 17 | I was a teenager , prone to the daftness that goes with that age group , and knew no better . |
| 18 | I was a teenager in the last war growing up . |