Example sentences of "i [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The enormous success of the BBC 's Follow Me demonstrated the huge scale of the demand . |
| 2 | Three weeks ago I became the proud owner of a Chihuahua and he 's changed my life completely . |
| 3 | When we got home , Dad came to the rescue , with the necessary bob ( as a shilling was called ) and so , on the following day , I became the proud owner of my very own tool set . |
| 4 | Not long after I 'd started the notebook , I became the proud owner of my first pair of binoculars . |
| 5 | So I became the only bluesman in Kensal Green . |
| 6 | Then I became the black sheep and I found to my horror that everyone thought I was off my bloody head . |
| 7 | It was not until about a year later , when I became the High Master of Warboys , that I took him into Warboys and made him a sort of Staff pilot flying Oxford aircraft on special navigational training exercises ; this was something that I could physically check and I do not know why it is , and I am not being clever now , I just accepted the evidence he gave me of this phoney flying . |
| 8 | I asked the Assistant Commissioner to let me go to Helsinki and he refused . |
| 9 | The following day I asked the young women of an all-girls ' school I was visiting if they had seen her , and what they thought . |
| 10 | It was a clear night , but the radar was a mass of echoes and I asked the Belgian contact to give me an estimated course and speed of our quarry , and as a result of this we were able to pick it up . |
| 11 | I asked the new director there , John Hutchinson , whether this concerned him . |
| 12 | I asked the Chief Accountant . |
| 13 | I put that as an amendment , not reiterating the entire Labour budget , but I asked the Liberal Democrats , who purport to want to erm provide that sort of service to vulnerable people could they not accept that extra half a million pounds as an amendment , and two out of the group abstained , the rest of them voted against that as an amendment . |
| 14 | I asked the hon. Member before to bring the matter to my office . |
| 15 | I wanted to introduce Dana to Pernod , so I asked the old man for ‘ dos Pernod ’ . |
| 16 | I asked the old man why |
| 17 | I asked the old man about this client from the North and he remembered her . ’ |
| 18 | I asked the old man , his nose almost level with the steering wheel of his equally elderly car . |
| 19 | I asked the Czech manager if they would be at Rutland Water in June and he said they would not be able to afford it . |
| 20 | Mummy was coming rather slowly , so I asked the little girl her name . |
| 21 | He goes on : ‘ I asked the whole frame of the world about my God ; and it answered me , ‘ I am not he , but he made me . ’ ’ |
| 22 | mm , I think maybe at the start though when I said do you have a beautiful body , maybe I asked the wrong questions , let me ask you this question at the end , do you like your body ? , er button one for yes and button two for no , and maybe we 'll get a different answer then , eighty five people said no they did n't have a beautiful body , but fifty six people here say yes they like their body , forty four is too many people who do n't , why not ? , who said no ? , why , why do n't you ? , yes |
| 23 | I do n't imagine that he felt any easier immediately I applied the hot blankets , but suggestion is a powerful weapon in the armoury of the doctor , and he did at least manage a smile . |
| 24 | Following the recent court ruling in Scotland in which a golfer who hit another man with a golf ball was ordered to pay substantial damages , I overheard the following conversation taking place in the clubhouse . |
| 25 | My heart began to flutter as I lowered the heavy pyx into my pouch . |
| 26 | ‘ I avoided the massive guitar solo thing because it never really fitted in the songs and that 's what 's important . |
| 27 | I flung the sporting pistol I had looted on to the back seat , relieved to think I would never have to defend myself with it . |
| 28 | ‘ He took me to the dance , it 's true , ’ said Hyacinth , her temper showing , ‘ but I ditched the ginger swine as soon as I possibly could . ’ |
| 29 | When I came home on leave I used to meet them in Crawford 's Oak Hall in Princes Street , and now I made the usual arrangement . |
| 30 | I made the usual radio and pre-landing checks before coming round onto the final approach , much too high , but somehow I managed to do a reasonable landing . |