Example sentences of "i [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Three weeks ago I became the proud owner of a Chihuahua and he 's changed my life completely .
2 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 .
3 Not long after I 'd started the notebook , I became the proud owner of my first pair of binoculars .
4 So I became the only bluesman in Kensal Green .
5 Then I became the black sheep and I found to my horror that everyone thought I was off my bloody head .
6 Later , because of my own initiative in originating the idea , I became the first Radio Editor in Canada , which meant writing a daily column about radio programmes , stars , and networks .
7 As I now personally from one of my previous lives in nineteen eighty-two , when I became the first Director of the newly independent National Federation of Community Organisations .
8 Now I became the second edition .
9 I caught up a bit during the '60s when I became the oldest teenager in town — in fact I was in my early thirties .
10 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 .
11 As a Scottish lawyer , may I make the simple point that the Lord Advocate looked carefully at the question of a prosecution for culpable homicide ?
12 Shall I make the little thingumajig up for you ?
13 Can I make the same point as well please ?
14 May I make the further suggestion that when it is all over on 9 April we get the right hon. Gentleman a new job — a walk-on part in a re-run of ’ Crossroads ’ or as a substitute for Ken Barlow .
15 I asked the Assistant Commissioner to let me go to Helsinki and he refused .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 I asked the new director there , John Hutchinson , whether this concerned him .
19 I asked the Chief Accountant .
20 I asked the Second Son .
21 When I asked the self-same question .
22 I walked in through the door and , feeling a bit lost , I asked the first person I saw if he knew whether the Social Secretary was around .
23 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 .
24 I asked the hon. Member before to bring the matter to my office .
25 I wanted to introduce Dana to Pernod , so I asked the old man for ‘ dos Pernod ’ .
26 I asked the old man why
27 I asked the old man about this client from the North and he remembered her . ’
28 I asked the old man , his nose almost level with the steering wheel of his equally elderly car .
29 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 .
30 Mummy was coming rather slowly , so I asked the little girl her name .
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