Example sentences of "i [be] [art] child i " in BNC.

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1 When I was a child I believed my father when he said he would live to be a hundred .
2 " When I was a child I used to imagine the moor belonged to me , that I was a young prince or the heir to an estate or something .
3 Even when I was a child I was entranced by her .
4 When I was a child I could remember gatherings of two or three hundred people , but there were less than a hundred out on the dry grass .
5 ‘ 'When I was a child I spake as a child , I understood as a child , I thought as a child , but when I became a man , I put away childish things .
6 When I was a child I once went round the house tearing all the stickers off ; I was belted and sent to my room for two days .
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