Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She do n't pay me got another pack of peanuts so I have got a few that few , but you do n't need any old bag do you ? |
2 | I became chief executive in 1971 and I then became responsible for the implementation of the plan . |
3 | ‘ As I became chief executive there was a change of policy . |
4 | Young Black and I became good friends . |
5 | There I became two people — one who watched and one who tried to forget that the other watched . |
6 | After that Nellie and I became close friends and so did her Mum and my Dad . |
7 | In the course of my newspaper work for the Times-Herald I became Provincial Editor , a title which brought no increase in salary . |
8 | ‘ In every year since I became Prime Minister , more money has been spent on the health service . |
9 | When I became Prime Minister this is what I promised . |
10 | IN AN interview with The Independent newspaper , John Major complained of ‘ the inheritance I had when I became Prime Minister . |
11 | Three weeks later , on the day I became Prime Minister , my first impulse was to sit down in the study which had been Harold 's and write him a letter of appreciation and grateful thanks . |
12 | ‘ When I became Prime Minister we were on the eve of war to free Kuwait . |
13 | A petite , pleasant-faced doxy , however , caught my eye and for a few hours I became old Shallot again , whiling away the time , telling the most outrageous stories and making her laugh both in the taproom and on her feather-filled mattress in the chamber above . |
14 | Then we had to change the Unions to Newsize and er I er I became National President of the Newsize er district inspectors branch of Newsize Yes I was president till I retired . |
15 | I became head chef in a kitchen with two cordon bleu chefs at The Rose Revived in Oxford . |
16 | So I became Red Hat the clown and travelled among the street people ( in Europe ) , a little drunk , but not crazy drunk in those days . |
17 | I asked Grand Met how it justified the rent increases being imposed . |
18 | When I asked Grand Met how it could justify the high rent increases , I was told that tenants could easily afford them because tenants would now receive all the proceeds from the amusement machines instead of sharing them with the brewers , although they still have to pay a high licence fee and rent . |
19 | I asked professional John Burns what the hazards were at Silloth . |
20 | I asked innumerable friends and acquaintances which was their favourite house in England ; almost invariably their choice was built between these dates . |
21 | I knew the children were not usually encouraged to guess so I asked one boy directly . |
22 | I asked one lecturer " What do you wish me to do now ? " and his answer was " That 's for you to decide . |
23 | I asked one member of a church planting team to look back on the experience . |
24 | When , a few days later , I asked one morning , " When a hen lays an egg , does it come out of hen 's beak ? " a deathly hush fell over the breakfast table . |
25 | I asked one pupil if he ever said Grace . |
26 | I asked one evening . |
27 | So the reason I asked that question is because I wanted to see if you were already thinking like an archaeologist . |
28 | But , you see , I asked that question , the final one , the only one that mattered , a long time after . |
29 | I asked that question , it has not been answered . |
30 | I asked many Goans if they disliked the freakish visitors , and their verdicts were almost unanimous . |