Example sentences of "was [adj] [noun pl] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was eight years old I joined our school choir . |
| 2 | — Mind , if I was fifty years younger I 'd be after him myself ! — A right charmer and no mistake ! ’ |
| 3 | From when I was eleven years old I felt totally alone . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If I was 12 years old I 'd be squealing in the stalls as well . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When she was thirteen years old she was already showing signs of disruptive , disturbed behaviour . |
| 8 | When Eva was three years old she was taken by train to the city . |
| 9 | When Anna was three years old it was decided to put her in foal , but many nose twitches , injections , and rectal examinations later , she was still not pregnant ; so she was sold . |
| 10 | When he was sixty years old he retired , and for Jane 's sake , she being a country person at heart , and thinking she would be happy there , bought a cottage in Hampshire . |
| 11 | Since she was fourteen months old she has spent hours in them . |
| 12 | Since I was ten years old I walked about our little town mentally transforming every womon I saw into a man and every man into a womon . |
| 13 | When I was ten years old I was taken by my parents to see my first play at the Royal Theatre . |
| 14 | When she was ten years old she discovered that she had a past . |
| 15 | By the time I was twelve years old I had been thinking for some time about getting a bird of my own . |
| 16 | And sort of , dead down to earth and everything and it showed you a clip out of National Velvet when she was twelve years old you know erm that with the horse in it and that ? |
| 17 | When he was five years old he lost his guide when out riding ; frightened by the ‘ horrid imaginations ’ conjured up by the inscription in the turf , he saw a pool , a beacon , and a woman . |
| 18 | yeah he was five years old he was |
| 19 | When Andy was fifteen years old he began working during his vacation periods at the local driving range near Bushey in Hertfordshire collecting practice balls . |
| 20 | When I was nine months old I was taken out to India by my parents who had a theatre company — they still have it , in fact , and they still tour . |
| 21 | When he was twenty months old he became ill . |
| 22 | Thérèse 's first word was Rose , and by the time she was eighteen months old she could say cow , apple , duck , cake , dog . |
| 23 | When the boy was two months old they had come to take him away . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | When she was two years old she had seemed to be of a cheerful disposition and laughed obediently when he made a witch out of his knotted handkerchief or cast a swan 's shadow against her bedroom wall with his fingers . |
| 26 | Ever since he was two years old he had been captivated by the pictures of the fiery beasts in The Octarine Fairy Book . |
| 27 | When I was seven months pregnant we decided to get a flat of our own . |