Example sentences of "i was [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was eighteen and a half I was let out , but I think I got institutionalised being there three and a half years , and I wanted to stay there . |
| 2 | ‘ I was disappointed when a move to the club fell through earlier in the season because I believe my style would be suited to the English game . |
| 3 | ( I was four and a half years on the Western Front as a stretcher bearer ) and only one of the worst cases who had it and lived through it . |
| 4 | I was four and a half years old and I was about to start Bedfield Primary School . |
| 5 | And then I was four and a half year in Sanday . |
| 6 | And I was impressed that a Harley Street gynaecologist was prepared to boil his own kettle . |
| 7 | Fifteen and a half Er well no I was nineteen and a half then you see , five years is n't it . |
| 8 | ‘ After my father died , when I was five and a half , she used to make me bath myself all alone . |
| 9 | Somehow I was relieved that a guard was with us because I thought that if there was an accident his friends might try to get him — and maybe us — out . |
| 10 | I did a dreadful thing , the worst thing of my life , when I was twelve and a half years old , or I feel that I did , and nothing can change it … ’ |
| 11 | " I was 11 and a half stone ( 160lb/73kg ) when I began the WNAS diet . |
| 12 | I 've , I 'd got a few stares from some of the women there , I mean , there are some women there that are huge , and maybe they looked at me and thought oh I hope I can wear leggings like that one day , I mean I do n't think I look too bad in the leggings , I mean I would never have done it when I used to go to Weightwatchers when I was thirteen and a half stone , I would never of gone in leggings , no way , but it does n't |
| 13 | I was convinced that a small company with sound quality credentials and low overhead expenses , and with a team of highly skilled and capable engineers , could get a good portion of these smaller contracts . ’ |
| 14 | I started school to er Bowvale School on Dovecote Lane at Eastwood , when I was two and a half . |
| 15 | Maybe I was lackadaisical and a bit self-indulgent . |
| 16 | I was six and a half years the , the minister of Whalsay and Skerries where the first er centre h ha has been built and there was rejoicing in that community that the that social responsibility had been invited by the council to join in this work . |
| 17 | Times were not so hard for businesses then and I was grateful when a year of events raised £107,000 . |
| 18 | ‘ I was puzzled when a paper recently called me a ‘ bread head ’ . |
| 19 | I then thought of running up to the local police station , but I was worried that a train might have come . ’ |
| 20 | Having looked at my passport , the Gendarme made a telephone call during which he turned to look at me , spelling out my name and saying that I was English and a former paratrooper . |
| 21 | He give me them , I took them for three days , right , I did n't come down for a fortnight and Russell 'll tell you that , I was high as a kite . |
| 22 | Because I was older and a bit more staid I was going to have a hard time . |
| 23 | I first started when I was seven and a half . |
| 24 | My parents kept a baby book about me until I was sixteen , and when I was three and a half they wrote : ‘ Takes a great interest in her clothes and chooses her own outfit each morning . |