Example sentences of "i was [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was twenty-two years old , and had never had any industrial experience of any sort . |
| 2 | I was twenty-two years old . |
| 3 | As I said , I was sure Elsie would have started at the top . |
| 4 | For my part , I told her that I was sure Aisha had a lover and we began searching for proof . |
| 5 | I burst into tears because I was sure Mum had pawned it or sold it . |
| 6 | The tone of the letter , the way it spoke of Lori ; I was sure Luke had written it . ’ |
| 7 | Changez 's brother sent him money , too , which was unusual , because it should have been the other way round as Changez made his way in the affluent West , but I was sure celebrations in India at Changez 's departure were still taking place . |
| 8 | I was sure Otto had put them there for me . |
| 9 | I whispered to Catherine that I was sure Heathcliff had heard some of what she said . |
| 10 | As the right hon. Gentleman knows , I was Chief Secretary for two years and Chancellor for one year . |
| 11 | I was chief haole , a direct descendant of Captain Cook . |
| 12 | I think a lot of it was severe stress and exhaustion : I was 27 years old and I 'd been on the road for about ten years of my life and that band was just so much bigger in people 's minds than it was in reality . |
| 13 | I was nervous standing there in front of the crowd . |
| 14 | I was eighteen years old . |
| 15 | In 1958 I was eighteen years old , but already had British Open experience , so I was n't completely over-awed at carrying such a great player 's bag . |
| 16 | I was eighteen years old in sixty-four |
| 17 | Twenty years ago I joined the Labour Party when I was eighteen years old which gives an idea of how old I am now . |
| 18 | I do n't know where they got my name , or why they thought I was suitable material for their article . ’ |
| 19 | But I was upset Romeo banished |
| 20 | But I was n't there , and this is to your advantage because I 'm not going to harp on about my favourite Shankly saying , or pretend I was close friends with the man like certain people do . |
| 21 | One day there were about a dozen of us there , including Dickie and myself ; I was Prime Minister at the time . |
| 22 | When I was young rugby was the love of my life , but these days I just manage a game of squash now and then . |
| 23 | ‘ Tho ’ I was young Thomas Chatterton to those I met , I was a very Proteus to those who read my Works ' : Chatterton 's story is mostly told by himself , and with a felicity of cadence and of reference which can be caught in the sentence I have just quoted . |
| 24 | I was seventy-five years old , you daft bugger , d' you seriously think it was your fault , just because you got your leg over some Judy ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Shortly after John was born I was night-flying overhead , gaining astro-navigational experience in a battered Avro Anson . |
| 27 | You know I was four bottles short one day . |
| 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 . |