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Example sentences of "when [pers pn] was [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	When I was five years old , my father was arrested .
2	‘ I made me second team debut when I was eight year old , ’ he claims .
3	Then when I was eight years old , I was sent to a co-educational school .
4	When I was eight years old I joined our school choir .
5	A Cornish miner later recalled of his late-eighteenth-century childhood : When I was eight years old my parents sent me to a raiding school kept by a poor owld man called Stephen Martin .
6	I discovered the Messiah when I was sixteen years old and I was overwhelmed by the sheer beauty and grandeur of Handel 's enduring masterpiece .
7	When I was fourteen months old my mother was arrested .
8	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 .
9	And er of course as I tell you , I finished when I was thirteen years old and I was on this er bottle washing stunt and o one chap as lived next door to us , back at er at Road he got me his this job on the farm .
10	‘ My father retired when I was 10 years old and I started in 1980 . ’
11	It was at this point , when I was twelve years old , that I took to reading junk books the way some people take to eating junk food .
12	Editor , — A Esmail and S Everington 's short report reminded me of a situation when I was executive dean of the medical school of the University of Manchester in 1970 .
13	Twenty years ago I joined the Labour Party when I was eighteen years old which gives an idea of how old I am now .
14	My father died when I was one week old , so I was the Queen of Scots when I was a baby .
15	She gave me my first mask when I was two years old .
16	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 .
17	‘ He would make tremendous efforts , like running to catch the last train back when I was two months old , and waking me up at 11 o'clock at night to spend time with me .
18	‘ When I was that age , I slunk about in an agony of embarrassment in case anybody looked at me . ’
19	I took part in the obstacle course which when I was that age I found it difficult .
20	When I first when I was first driving in the early 1970's you could park in the quarry car park any time you fancied except the few days before Christmas .
21	She entered the trade with Truslove & Hanson in its Oxford Street branch in 1919 , and in 1935 came as my secretary when I was managing Harrods Library , which was then , with the Times , the leading large subscription library with a staff of well over 100 .
22	When I was six years old , my sister Pat eight , and my younger brother Alan three , war broke out .
23	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 .
24	I had my first motorbike when I was six years old .
25	Really she was just working out her guilt for having thrown me under the wardrobe when I was six weeks old .
26	When I was young rugby was the love of my life , but these days I just manage a game of squash now and then .
27	When I was political editor of the Daily Mirror , Maxwell took a shine to this hat and asked me to get him one identical to it .
28	When I was four years old the book reads : ‘ Very fond of dressing up , especially in an old nylon nightdress ’ — ‘ the princess dress … ’
29	‘ I fell out of a tree when I was four years old .
30	Although these rules were constantly adjusted under pressure , it was not until 1932 ( when I was four years old ) that the principle of free places in selective secondary academic schools — grammar schools , — for short — was directly challenged .