Example sentences of "i be a young [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am a young lad of eighteen who has been approached by your official , Mr Reg Pybus , with an invitation to join your club as a player . |
| 2 | I am a young woman of 30 years , married with one loved and cared for child , whom I would never leave in such a situation . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm a young man , ’ he went on . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm a young man . |
| 5 | ‘ I wish I were a young girl again , wild and free , out on the moors with Heathcliff ! |
| 6 | ‘ When I am shaving in the morning I say to myself that if I were a young man I would emigrate . |
| 7 | As I said , if I were a young man , I should emigrate . ’ |
| 8 | But by golly I 'm living as though I were a young woman . |
| 9 | And I used to get in when I was a young boy and see them when I started working on a farm I always to see them . |
| 10 | ‘ You know , when I was a young boy , I was just like Tommy : fat , unpopular , short , I had glasses , everything seemed wrong with me , but look at me now … ’ |
| 11 | An old bugger I was , well I was a young bugger actually then , yeah , yeah . |
| 12 | When I was a young girl I and my sisters would get a boat and slip away , visiting friends from island to island . |
| 13 | ‘ When I was a young girl , I was an army secretary in India . |
| 14 | ‘ It went on until I was thirteen — and a neighbour was also abusing me when I was a young girl . |
| 15 | When I arrived in Scotland , I was a young girl of eighteen . |
| 16 | I persuaded my mother that I should be the first visitor ; after all , I knew Parma better than she did , and since I was a young girl they might treat me more kindly . |
| 17 | As I was a young girl no one , partisans or Germans , would suspect me of carrying very large sums of money . |
| 18 | ‘ I used to faint when I was a young girl , just like that . |
| 19 | And I mean I remember myself when I was a young girl that you used to walk along a road and you 'd see houses that were going to rack and ruin . |
| 20 | But when you loved it , did n't you I mean I know I did when I was a young person first drinking erm I definitely had the feeling that if I was drinking to excess I was n't doing the right thing , whereas the impression we give in Oxford that drinking to the excess is perfectly acceptable behaviour . |
| 21 | " 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 . |
| 22 | When I was a young houseman I — well , enjoyed a hectic love-life . |
| 23 | Some of you may have heard me say before that when I was a young ordinand I met up with a marvellous Canadian bishop , Ralph Dean . |
| 24 | I joined some time in the late thirties when I was a young member of the Foreign Office . ’ |
| 25 | I am big for my age and I did n't mind if he thought I was a young man . |
| 26 | ‘ He said he could see I was a young man with all his wits about him . ’ |
| 27 | When I was a young man , aspiring detectives would attend at autopsies on their rest days , just for experience . |
| 28 | To me , he said in a quavering voice , ‘ When I was a young man , people lived to be fifty-five or sixty . |
| 29 | ‘ Used to carry your Auntie up here when I was a young man and she was a babby , ’ he said . |
| 30 | He said : ‘ There was no acknowledgement when I was a young man that the field of world music was populated by traditions of equal value . |