Example sentences of "when [noun prp] [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They used to say that on Listen With Mother , when Bernard was a child . |
| 2 | When Wilfrid was a prisoner in the late 670s at Dunbar , it was Aebbe , abbess of urbs Coludi ( Kirk Hill , south of Coldingham ) , uterine sister of Oswald and Oswiu , the daughter of Eadwine 's sister , Acha ( HE 111 , 6 ) , who was instrumental in procuring his release ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 39 ) . |
| 3 | When Rebecca was a baby she looked like this . |
| 4 | One passage , when Edward was a scholar at Battersea Grammar School , sums up the general atmosphere of 61 Shelgate Road , as the poet recalled it twenty years later : |
| 5 | Mother Francis felt an urge to take the child in her arms as she used to do when Eve was a baby given into their care by the accident of her birth . |
| 6 | When Fred was a kid he sent John Peel a demo tape and John Peel phoned him up , but nothing came of it . |
| 7 | I discovered the lump in my breast when Jo was a baby . |
| 8 | And then it gets in with a vengeance , when Nicola was a month old did n't it ? |
| 9 | , Sir Gilbert ( 1899–1978 ) , civil engineer , was born in Hampstead 18 February 1899 , the son of Henry William Roberts , pharmaceutical chemist , who died when Gilbert was a child , and his wife Lily Hodgson . |
| 10 | Later , when Sarella was a star of stage and screen in much demand and there was time to pick and choose the roles she was offered , it was time to think about babies and eventual ponies in the paddock , just as Marc had told her . |
| 11 | In its first twenty or thirty years of life the new Board was rather more active than the Lords of Trade ; between 1720 and 1760 effective executive power passed to the Secretary of State in charge of relations with France and southern Europe , though the Board still served as the main clearing house for the American pressure groups which could keep up London connections ; in the last twenty years of its life , when Gibbon was a member , it was as complete a sinecure as he could have wished because power had now passed to the holder of a new Secretaryship of State . |
| 12 | When Hannah was a child , running water meant the stream in the field and such things as electricity , the internal combustion engine and even the wireless were available only on another planet or so it must have seemed to the average resident of this remote and lovely but intensely deprived valley . |
| 13 | But when Hannah was a girl , chapel was a place for the young and energetic , for people who wanted their voices to be heard . |
| 14 | Ironically , 25-year-old Josephine had made it as a TV star when Craig was a pipe layer dreaming of fame . |
| 15 | The manuscript contained a collection of writings describing the legends of Glastonbury , Avalon , Arthur , the forging of Excalibur , and even the fanciful story of how , when Christ was a boy , Joseph of Arimathea brought him to Glastonbury to buy tin and precious oils from the natives . |
| 16 | Funny that , when Jack was a student in Sheffield he worked in a fruit store and THEY sold cabbages . |
| 17 | When Boyd was a child of eight , he and his father had had to sit out a tornado while visiting a German friend who had settled in Kansas . |
| 18 | For the most part , when Europe was a collection of city states , dukedoms and principalities , these societies were far from uniform in their language , dialect and religion . |
| 19 | When Langdale was a planner 's dream , locals were to have use of the facilities . |
| 20 | When Marjorie was a year old , her mother had run off with an Armenian . |
| 21 | Oh I bought that one when Deana was a baby |
| 22 | When Joyce was a teenager Commissioner Charles Duncan came to inspect the corps , and his words in one of the public meetings stuck in her memory : " I have never been in such a well ordered home . " |
| 23 | The demesne plantation was now very much smaller than it had been when Alec was a boy . |
| 24 | The Labour party , when O'Brien was a TD , was committed to a change , but Dick Spring saw that as an obstacle to the Labour-Fianna Fail coalition he wanted . |
| 25 | probably her family had been taken as captives when she was a child , for the conquest of the Alan country had taken place when Jehan was a youth . |
| 26 | Her sister Gabrielle Garsin , who had lived with Eugenia and the family when Dedo was a child , had committed suicide that year by throwing herself down a steep flight of stairs . |
| 27 | It would have been a different story 30-plus years ago when John was a professional , playing in the First Division for Luton Town at soccer shrines like Old Trafford and Anfield . |