Example sentences of "i [vb past] 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | I asked the Assistant Commissioner to let me go to Helsinki and he refused . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 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 . |
| 13 | I asked the hon. Member before to bring the matter to my office . |
| 14 | I wanted to introduce Dana to Pernod , so I asked the old man for ‘ dos Pernod ’ . |
| 15 | I asked the old man why |
| 16 | I asked the old man about this client from the North and he remembered her . ’ |
| 17 | I asked the old man , his nose almost level with the steering wheel of his equally elderly car . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Mummy was coming rather slowly , so I asked the little girl her name . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ ’ |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | My heart began to flutter as I lowered the heavy pyx into my pouch . |
| 25 | ‘ I avoided the massive guitar solo thing because it never really fitted in the songs and that 's what 's important . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | With that she marched off , and after we 'd got our breath , I made the usual cup of tea while Frankie went to fetch nails and hammer from Dad 's tool box so he could fix the door before Mum returned and explanations were necessary . |