Example sentences of "i [was/were] born [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was born of a Gascon father and an English mother in the town of Béarn near the village of Bordeaux . |
| 2 | The other aspect Mr Mayor that I , that I want t to dwell on is the thing about housing benefits themselves , there 's been a lot of talk by a lot of speakers about benefits and er means testing in the years gone by and well okay I 'll give councillor a few more years than I have , I do n't remember the forties because I was born towards the end of them but , y'know , maybe that happened . |
| 3 | I was born over the road . |
| 4 | Julian Clary has released his version of ‘ I was Born Under a Wandrin' Star ’ ( Wonderdog ) , an unlikely hit for Lee Marvin in 1970 . |
| 5 | An attitude of fatalism may be seen in typical phrases from traditional low-income black American subculture such as ‘ I 've been down so long that down do n't bother me ’ , ‘ I was born under a bad sign ’ and ‘ It 's an uphill climb to the bottom ’ . |
| 6 | My father had told me years before that I was born under the starsign of the Dog because Sirius was overhead at the time . |
| 7 | I 've never had any luck , I was born under an unlucky star , mister . ’ |
| 8 | I was born into a fashion family . |
| 9 | I was born into a working-class family in the West of Ireland . |
| 10 | I am , I was born in Essex , in in hospital and my family all come from Essex , and I was brought up in Upminster and I was very fortunate in that I was born into a christian home and I had christian parents and christian grandparents and christian aunts and uncles and I went to church from the time I was about two or three weeks old . |
| 11 | I was born into the war torn world of May 1915 in a mile long street of two storey houses strategically located between Wallsend railway station and Wallsend drill hall . |
| 12 | Anyway , rather than attributing it to my childhood , I prefer to believe that I was born into the world with greater or lesser faculties than other people and that I can take full responsibility for them . |
| 13 | ‘ I was born into the trap , he walked into it in avoiding another kind of servitude , with his eyes open , but not looking where he was going . |
| 14 | I was born into the first generation of women who could actually choose — without risking death in an illegal abortion — when and whether we would have children . |
| 15 | I was born to a British mother , and a father serving in the British Army in Malaysia during 1963 . |
| 16 | I was born to a |
| 17 | The headmaster from 1927 to 1953 ( from the year before I was born to the year before I joined the staff ) was C. G. M. Broom : a scholar of Brasenose and , like all his predecessors , a classic in the old manner . |
| 18 | ‘ But I was born to the sword . ’ |
| 19 | I was born with no hair . |
| 20 | I believe I was born with a certain ear . |
| 21 | ‘ I was born with a body that was masculine but my heart was always feminine . |
| 22 | That I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth ? ’ |
| 23 | and every , it 's always money goes to money she was born with a silver spoon , I was born with a wooden spoon |
| 24 | Among many blessings , which I count from time to time , is the good fortune of being born in this age of progress ‘ in all directions ’ and the fact that I was born with an innate curiosity . |
| 25 | It was just a very low part , there was a little shopping area just round there at the time er , a butcher 's shop and a greengrocer 's shop and a Post Office , Street was the Post Office on the corner , and then Street and Road which lead down into , Lane and just round oh just round there you see , but I was born at the last house in the Street almost at the bottom of Street . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , at least she knew I was born on a Wednesday … |
| 27 | I was born on the English side , but prefer to be Scottish . |
| 28 | I was born on the twenty eighth of December nineteen ten . |
| 29 | If I was born on the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh right , no if I was born on the eleventh about nineteen hundred , then on the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh , announce , that 's when I was born zero , six , six , eleventh , eleventh , sixty-six , I was eleven on the eleventh of the eleventh of seventy-seven , I was , I was twenty-two on the eleventh of the eleventh , eighty-eight , I was thirty-three on the eleventh of the eleventh noticed how they 're all double all the way through |
| 30 | If I was born on the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh right , no if I was born on the eleventh about nineteen hundred , then on the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh , announce , that 's when I was born zero , six , six , eleventh , eleventh , sixty-six , I was eleven on the eleventh of the eleventh of seventy-seven , I was , I was twenty-two on the eleventh of the eleventh , eighty-eight , I was thirty-three on the eleventh of the eleventh noticed how they 're all double all the way through |