Example sentences of "i [be] [art] [adj] child " in BNC.
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| 1 | She heard them clinking , and she thought : ‘ I 'm here in these lovely gardens because I am the Best Child in the World . ’ |
| 2 | I am the only child of elderly parents and I suppose when I was young they were over-protective and old-fashioned . |
| 3 | I am the only child . ’ |
| 4 | I am an alone child . |
| 5 | ‘ I am an alone child . ’ |
| 6 | But she had persisted : ‘ I am an alone child . |
| 7 | I 'm an only child . |
| 8 | I 'm an only child , you see , and it gets a bit stifling sometimes . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm an only child . |
| 10 | ‘ No , I 'm an only child . ’ |
| 11 | I 'm an innocent child . |
| 12 | I was a backward child ; I was always being ill with colds , coughs and bilious attacks . |
| 13 | My first name was Philip , but when I was a small child I could only manage to say Pip . |
| 14 | ‘ I think I may have heard it as a bedtime story when I was a small child . ’ |
| 15 | But I did n't think I was a pretty child at all . |
| 16 | We were a very respectable family and I was the second child . |
| 17 | As I was the only child , the animals were my playmates . |
| 18 | My mother hoped to have a daughter after I was born , but for five years I was the only child . |
| 19 | I was lucky , too , because I was the fourth child of four . |
| 20 | I was an only child , so I daresay I got among her feet a lot before I went to school . |
| 21 | In all this my life was not novel , except that it had no witnesses , because I was an only child . |
| 22 | And I was an only child , spoilt by my parents . |
| 23 | and I had a very sheltered life , I was an only child , I had n't been around much , I had n't stayed away from home erm and I came to Suffolk to visit a girl penfriend who was working at Brandeston Hall and erm she at that time was expecting to get engaged to a chappy in the village here who was , and still is a friend of Hector 's and ours , and they did n't marry in the finish but she at that time wanted me to come up to Suffolk to see her and to meet this chappy who she thought she was going to marry and erm so , it was holiday from the art school where I was and I thought well why not ? |
| 24 | I was an awful child . |
| 25 | ‘ Mum says she always looked forward to her grandchildren , because of me being an only child . |
| 26 | He knows how I feel , me being an only child … he 's a wonderful husband , I could n't have a better husband . |