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 . |