Example sentences of "when i [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I was a boy in Harlan County we were real poor and every morning I used to wake up and look out of my bedroom window at this mountain called Gray 's Knob . |
| 2 | When I was a boy |
| 3 | When I was a boy in Salzburg two or three hundred people might hear a concert , listening to something that the great majority of people outside the concert-hall had no knowledge or understanding of . |
| 4 | I was nourished on stories like these ; William Wallace , slaying half a dozen English soldiers with his fishing rod ; Bruce , before Bannockburn , felling an English knight with one stroke from his slender battle-axe ; and when I was a boy I contracted a mortal dread of dying in bed . |
| 5 | When I was a boy , God was always at home . |
| 6 | When I was a boy , a great uncle-in-law died of cancer , as did my mother-in-law in later years . |
| 7 | When I was a boy there were hundreds of fishing boats . |
| 8 | When I was a boy Milford Street always seemed very busy , maybe because it was the nearest main thoroughfare to my Culver Street home . |
| 9 | The front door had been beautifully oak grained , this is today almost a lost art , although when I was a boy , every painter worth his salt would not only copy woods but also marble . |
| 10 | ‘ You would n't believe the power the old-time underwriters had when I was a boy . |
| 11 | When I was a boy of fourteen , my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand the old man around . |
| 12 | When I was a boy I belonged to a small Christian sect that was my whole world . |
| 13 | He taught me when I was a boy . |
| 14 | And , ‘ When I was a boy it was always considered bad form to talk about food or money . |
| 15 | TV did n't exist when I was a boy . |
| 16 | ‘ Used to do this sort of thing when I was a boy , ’ he said . |
| 17 | WHEN I was a boy , running naked daubed in human blood with the Mod gangs of pre-Thatcherite East Devon , we read NME and Sounds and spat the venomous arguments of Burchill , Morley and Baker in the faces of the sofa-lounging Genesis fans of the soft sixth form . |
| 18 | When I was a boy living on a croft at Aywick , the corn bunting was a familiar bird . |
| 19 | I found the way here when I was a boy , and it spoils you for the human world . |
| 20 | Like I did when I was a boy . |
| 21 | It was er The village centre is about the same as it was when I was a boy , more busier of course , all the private houses that were on the front , you know , Street ? |
| 22 | ‘ When I was a boy the outfall was still in use and old Penrose was in charge . |
| 23 | ‘ When I was a boy I knew your part of the country very well , ’ he said . |
| 24 | ‘ When I was a boy my parents had a bookshop like this in Plymouth . |
| 25 | ‘ Do you know , Ranulf , ’ Corbett continued , wiping his mouth on a napkin , ‘ when I was a boy , my mother took me to hear a famous preacher . |
| 26 | But she was there when I was a boy and even when I went to school in Porthmadog . |
| 27 | When I was a boy — just 30 years ago — a store like this would have had a hard time surviving in this small mid-Western Canadian city . |
| 28 | ‘ When I was a boy . |
| 29 | These have been around so long even I played with them when I was a boy and I 'll bet Kirsty did too . |
| 30 | ‘ I had a cub when I was a boy . |