Example sentences of "i [verb] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can you help me make a shopping list ? |
| 2 | Extract 1 : The ghost One day me met a witch Jamaica [ inaudible ] me ( gor ra ) mother — me saw her dere , me sit down an she tell me all the story alrigh% ? |
| 3 | Our friendship developed and she invited me to write a Fount book . |
| 4 | I became a bird watcher in Orkney . |
| 5 | In 1963 I became a CID aide or trainee detective , engaged in run-of-the-mill work dealing with a flow of petty crime . |
| 6 | For a brief spell I became a Troop Leader , which I enjoyed because the Troop Leader carried the flag , but unlike " Sister Anna " ( who also carried a banner in the song which I was to learn much later ) I had a handsome leather pouch which went over one shoulder . |
| 7 | I became a demon domino player . |
| 8 | I 've nothing against them , they just hate me , so I became a founder member of the Campaign for Quill Pens and Ink . |
| 9 | I became a Shoreline member last year . |
| 10 | I was made redundant less than a year after I became a Sheffield city councillor , and I 've never believed in those sorts of coincidences . |
| 11 | To speak personally , I might have found life easier , though possibly less interesting , if the English synthesis had continued to exist in approximately the same state as when I became a university teacher at the end of the 1950s : a genuine humane discipline , self-respecting , enjoyable , expanding , with methods that were established and familiar , if subject to variation between the different emphases associated with Oxford and Cambridge . |
| 12 | I became a Market Gardener and my parents and sisters spent a lot of time not only on my costume but also in the decoration of my wheelbarrow . |
| 13 | I became a railway enthusiast mainly because the civil engineer on the Gwili Railway at the time was willing to give of his time to answer my questions . |
| 14 | There are times when you can feel successful when you 've done virtually nothing — I remember when I became a radio actor , and I was pushing my motor bike , which had run out of petrol , up the main street in Cardiff , and I felt that I was a great star , and was very pleased with myself . |
| 15 | I became a car driver again widely overtaking walkers and cyclists , and made forays of comfortable detective work returning to my cornucopian base , some of the victuallings within you will learn about in the Lewis section . |
| 16 | When I became a freelance writer in 1989 , I finally found a career which could accommodate wanderlust . |
| 17 | I became a house model for the great designer Jean Muir and it was a wonderful foundation because she was meticulous . |
| 18 | I became a shop assistant , a gardener 's labourer , a furniture porter , a salesman — the list went on . |
| 19 | Mum can I make a phone call ? |
| 20 | ‘ Can I make a suggestion missus ? ’ he asked . |
| 21 | How can I make a glass box look like a stream ? |
| 22 | On the spur of the moment the other day I asked a seminar group of sixteen PGCE students ( a third of whom were over the age of thirty ) after a three-week preliminary block of school experience , whether they thought that schools were ( a ) fine as they were ; ( b ) in need of some modifications ; ( c ) failing a sizeable proportion of young people ; ( d ) seriously failing all young people . |
| 23 | ‘ Then I asked a girl friend to fix me up with someone . |
| 24 | I asked a trivia question on rss a long tme ago about the famous Eddie Gray goal against Burnley where he dribbled round eight players and then scored — the question was : Who was the Leeds player lying injured as he did it ? |
| 25 | ‘ Do you know , ’ I asked a market trader as I met the fine working people of Motherwell over the weekend , ‘ that this country 's public sector borrowing requirement expressed as a percentage of Gross National Product is running at a completely unacceptable level ? ’ |
| 26 | She rung me up and asked me did I want a microwave oven ? |
| 27 | I do I want a poacher egg poacher |
| 28 | Ronald Duncan , whom I came to know about this time ( our first meeting took place when I made a bicycle tour of Cornwall in the summer of 1947 ) , spoke of having received a telegram from Eliot cancelling an engagement and saying that he had to ‘ bury a woman ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ Twenty-five years ago I made a suspense movie , Wait Until Dark , with Audrey Hepburn for which she got an Oscar . |
| 30 | I tell you what I made a printing machine on Friday and it works . |