Example sentences of "i [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | Shall I make the little thingumajig up for you ? |
| 8 | I asked the Assistant Commissioner to let me go to Helsinki and he refused . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I asked the new director there , John Hutchinson , whether this concerned him . |
| 11 | I asked the Chief Accountant . |
| 12 | I asked the hon. Member before to bring the matter to my office . |
| 13 | I wanted to introduce Dana to Pernod , so I asked the old man for ‘ dos Pernod ’ . |
| 14 | I asked the old man why |
| 15 | I asked the old man about this client from the North and he remembered her . ’ |
| 16 | I asked the old man , his nose almost level with the steering wheel of his equally elderly car . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Mummy was coming rather slowly , so I asked the little girl her name . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | My heart began to flutter as I lowered the heavy pyx into my pouch . |
| 22 | This theme will be taken up in Chapter 6 when I introduce the structuralist account of the relation between signification and social process . |
| 23 | ‘ I avoided the massive guitar solo thing because it never really fitted in the songs and that 's what 's important . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I commend the annual report from the health authority chief executive , which shows that Sheffield is a centre of excellence for health . |
| 26 | I commend the hon. Gentleman for his work on the link between Pittsburgh and Newry . |
| 27 | I commend the Christian doctrine of costly service . |
| 28 | MAYBE SO , BUT I 'LL NOT REST UNTIL , ONCE , I TASTE THE BUTTOCK-CLENCHING THRILL OF BEING CAUGHT IN Flagrante Delicto BY MELVYN BRAGG … |
| 29 | If blood pressure is elevated the first question must be ‘ Am I using the correct size cuff ? ’ |
| 30 | As such , the best cross section of Charlie Parker here is ‘ The Charlie Parker Story ’ , all of whose takes are from the 26/11/45 session , and for which I award the extra half star . |