Example sentences of "i [vb past] a [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the election , I became a frequent visitor to Downing Street . |
| 2 | I also like to give credit where it is due , and would , therefore , like to thank members of the Great Central Railway who were very helpful and friendly when I made a recent visit to Rothley and Loughborough as an ordinary visitor . |
| 3 | He added : ‘ I made a tremendous start to the year and badly wanted that No 1 spot for the first time but it made me become negative . |
| 4 | I made a mental note to myself that if the doctor on her case set that beautiful leg anything other than back the way it should be , then he had better start looking for a good dentist . |
| 5 | On the one occasion when I made a direct appeal to her , in connection with the battle against the closed shop for journalists which I describe later , her response was gratifyingly supportive and it was no fault of hers that she was unable to persuade Lord Hailsham to a course of action that might well have altered journalistic history . |
| 6 | No-one else in our aircraft appeared to be the least bit concerned , but my relief as we finally drew near the coast of England again and then began our descent to the safety of solid earth was so great that I made a little promise to myself that I would never again set foot in an aeroplane , so long as I could be permitted to survive this one trip . |
| 7 | The instant I realised that we had a picture I made a steep turn to starboard and a downward movement , simultaneously I was aware of a slight tremor in the aircraft in the region of the bomb bay . |
| 8 | ( To Nick [ disguised as a girl ] ) Suppose I made an indecent suggestion to you ? |
| 9 | ‘ He 's done well for himself , and as things have turned out , I got a great move to a club that are really flying at the moment . |
| 10 | " I learnt a new tolerance to other faiths . |
| 11 | ‘ Then I found out that I came a poor second to the real love of her life — money . |
| 12 | I noted a new aspect to Niki at the end of I975 , which he concluded with a fine victory at Watkins Glen . |
| 13 | So much so in fact that tonight , as I filled my cat 's litter tray with ‘ Sophisticat ’ , I noticed a distinct similarity to standard aquarium ammonia remover . |
| 14 | As it happened , speaking a number of languages , I had more access to the room in which the drivers were locked up than most , and I filed a long despatch to The Times about the issues in the strike and the feeling among the drivers . |
| 15 | I had just told him that on my arrival in South Africa I received a pressing invitation to Rhodesia , where I am now writing . |
| 16 | I discovered a partial answer to that question at the end of last week , finding myself in a television reception room with Sir Teddy Taylor and Labour 's Austin Mitchell . |
| 17 | ‘ Once I hit the 2O mile mark I started to feel stronger and my speed picked up slightly , but as I ran up the Mall towards Buckingham Palace I discovered a new meaning to the word pain . |
| 18 | I had the club already going , was dealing with mainly young people , and as you will know young people 's taste tends to vary quite considerably and very quickly , so I might well be very successful for so long and then if suddenly taste changed and I had n't got the ability to change with the times I realized that it would be rather precarious , so I needed a second string to my bow . |
| 19 | Crossing mosaic floors , and pausing to admire stained glass windows , I reached a little shrine to St Bridget . |
| 20 | ‘ I thought a personal appeal to the Brotherhood for a relic for Shaftesbury Abbey would be much better than legal wrangling , and all I can say at present is that negotiations are going very well indeed , ’ said Mrs Rider last night . |
| 21 | I took a real fancy to her . |
| 22 | As Lauda remarked : ‘ He was someone I took a great liking to , the craziest devil I ever came across in F1 . ’ |
| 23 | And to make matters worse I took an instant dislike to the wife . |
| 24 | Before leaving , I gave a spare key to Lisabeth and an envelope with Jo 's two hundred quid for her to give to Mr Nassim . |
| 25 | I did a terrible thing to Kate Bush . |
| 26 | Well I did a quick trip to our Arthur 's cos I lent him some money today . |
| 27 | I said a silent farewell to my beautiful Tudor doll 's house , my gleaming two-wheeler Raleigh , my blackboard and desk , doll 's pram and crib , my pink eiderdown and basket chair — all the remnants of a privileged childhood — and off we went . |
| 28 | We moved in with them , although it meant I had a long journey to the hospital every day and I had to sleep there when I was on call , and we stayed with them until he was nine . |
| 29 | When I reluctantly put him back in his shoe box , I had a desperate need to be close to ‘ Fred ’ the person . |
| 30 | The voice stopped and I had a similar feeling to the one I had just before I found Toby trussed up in his cupboard . |