Example sentences of "i [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only discovered that late as well when I became friends with John at college . |
| 2 | I became friends with Juliet , , because she understood me , + I could talk to her about my opinions quite openly : she is very understanding in that way . |
| 3 | I 'm not really sure how I became friends with the boy , but he also has quite a good personality , + I can have a good laugh with him . |
| 4 | I find it odd that the position has so changed compared with 15 months ago when I became Secretary of State , when some Conservative Members were alleging that standards had declined and Opposition Members were denying those allegations . |
| 5 | If I became part of his fantasy landscape a certain amount of security , great pleasure even , was possible , at the cost of feeling split and unknowable afterwards and unsure whether I as I felt I really was had experienced anything . |
| 6 | Not that the state of my underwear was of crucial importance the day I became part of Britain 's road accident statistics . |
| 7 | I worked as a researcher for him for so long I became part of the furniture , I really did . |
| 8 | Having got across the footlights I became part of the O. U. D. S. , and was invited to their club in George Street just opposite the theatre — the New Theatre as it then was — now the Apollo . |
| 9 | But when I became spokesman in opposition myself and he was the Foreign Secretary and we were sparring partners again , I made a nice remark about him and he said it was like being nuzzled by an old ram . |
| 10 | I became expert at daytime TV quiz shows — there was not much else to do . |
| 11 | I first met him during the early 1950s and I became editor of what I believe was the second journal in the now enormous Pergamon Press stable . |
| 12 | When I became chairman of Hepworths , it had its own clothing plant and it either produced too much or not enough of the right quality at the right price at the right time . |
| 13 | Every year after I became chairman of British Steel we set aside one board meeting at which the objectives of the organisation were raised . |
| 14 | Years later when I became chairman of the medical missions of SPG , I realised how in mission hospitals all over the world , the same devoted healing mission was being carried on , which spoke much more eloquently of divine and human love than the preaching of less qualified friends like myself . |
| 15 | In my own case by the time I became chairman of ICI , I had not actively sold in the marketplace for nine years , although , of course , as a director of a large international company I was involved from time to time in negotiations of one sort or another . |
| 16 | When I became Chairman on the retiral of Lord Macfarlane in June 1992 , I welcomed the prospect of such a challenging and rewarding task . |
| 17 | Before we delivered our report , however , I had joined the Arts Council , of which I became chairman in May 1965 . |
| 18 | ‘ I joined 25 years ago and I became chairman in 1981 for five years , ’ he says . |
| 19 | But , you see , with all this , and , indeed , before all this , the two happiest relationships of my life were with a schoolfriend called Melanie Smith with whom I used to listen to records of Carousel and Oklahoma ! on an old , wind-up gramophone , and with the hockey-ball when I became goalie of the first eleven . |
| 20 | ‘ I fulfilled a childhood dream when I became champion in June , but Tyson is the ultimate dream . ’ |
| 21 | When I became rookie of the year in 1992 they got their money back and a bit extra , and it will be the same this season . ’ |
| 22 | At one time , and I became adversaries over the selection of polio virus strains to be used as oral vaccines . |
| 23 | It was a great pleasure to meet up with you again when I became Director of CPRW . |
| 24 | But Gould said : ‘ I knew the financial problems facing the club when I became manager in the summer and it was my idea that I should work without a contract . |
| 25 | Have you forgotten that I became President through People Power ? |
| 26 | May I make love to you , Charity ? ’ |
| 27 | Group members ' perceptions of expected behaviour are concerned with bits of behaviour ( ‘ Can I make jokes in this group ? ’ ) , rather than with the behaviour as a continuing phenomenon ( ‘ Do I have a sense of humour ? ’ ) . |
| 28 | How could I make proposals on social security without mentioning National Insurance for which I had ministerial responsibility ? |
| 29 | And I shall have him flogged in their sight when I perceive dissension to our wise governance . |
| 30 | Go back to what I asked Terry about , just so that you 're in the picture really . |