Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I became quite a celebrity because of it . |
| 2 | I never did get the hang of table tennis but I became quite a useful bantam-weight and once even represented the club against Bethnal Green . |
| 3 | After a further period of three months or so , Don Bennett appointed me Group training inspector — and I became virtually a horse thief ! |
| 4 | Can I make just a suggestion ? |
| 5 | The NCT sessions encouraged everyone to ask ‘ daft ’ questions — the sort that do not seem daft if you do not know the answers — like how do I make up a nappy , how many sterilising tablets do I use for the bottles and what should we buy before the baby is born ? |
| 6 | I cite only a few . |
| 7 | I back away a bit , and kneel down . |
| 8 | Then , as another kind of exorcism , I made up a list of : |
| 9 | So I made up a couple of bottles for them and they said " Oh . " . |
| 10 | Half-blinded by shadow I made out a steep wall of steps and moved towards it . |
| 11 | So I made out a roster , and there were over a hundred carriage cleaners at and I made out a roster for them . |
| 12 | So I made out a roster , and there were over a hundred carriage cleaners at and I made out a roster for them . |
| 13 | Although I hated the very idea of selling things to people who might not want to buy them ( even if it was good for them ) I made quite a few sales , the main commission deriving from the sale of a Group Insurance Scheme to 32 men from the Times-Herald staff . |
| 14 | I choked back a heartfelt tear . |
| 15 | I mean just a friendly little party . |
| 16 | Yeah I mean just a few different should you use a little bit of green powder paint . |
| 17 | mhm Well I think it can go from anything , I mean just a vague feeling of suddenly being put off what you 're talking about because you 've suddenly become conscious of how you 're looking . |
| 18 | You see I mean I can see the goal there every day , I can see , I can see me sort of getting to the goal , I just maybe sort of go around it , I mean well a bit I mean , since I 've had these two I sort of said , you know , would it , would it be the white handle , let me show you , you know the gold handle and , you know |
| 19 | I mean why a position to do the work prior to her going away |
| 20 | It does n't supersede that in any way , and obviously if people do run into problems I mean normally a major problem in the first three months or three thousand miles is taken back to the dealer anyway . |
| 21 | We have n't got er I mean obviously a lot of the staff that are on these temporary contracts are from the adult team . |
| 22 | Well , it 's something er I mean obviously a lot of people like the idea of going over to the Swindon Oasis , now er we 've had at the back of our minds , if it was at all possible to er put something similar at Didcot , obviously nothing as grand as the Oasis , but something quite similar , and obviously they would come to Didcot and not bother to go over to Swindon . |
| 23 | Right so there 's a thought that somehow democracy ought to be self-justifying erm the well I mean quite a long way actually two types of justification of democracy , instrumental and erm Mill is defending democracy surely instrumentally and we might want to say democracy has its justification of freedom and equality . |
| 24 | Cos I did ea , by Monday I felt sick and I eat quite a lot at the weekend which was good , but Tuesday I start at placement and we , although like we talk , we do n't have , like a , conversation we as well and there was n't really anything to record , saying yesterday to record and |
| 25 | I lived quite a lot of my early childhood at the Thompsons ' house behind a shop on Harehills Parade . |
| 26 | In some ways I remain permanently a diplomat , allegedly detached but with a tendency to go native , which , of course , is what I did here . |
| 27 | I stammered out a fairly acceptable reason for declining their invitation to make a personal appearance at the songs premiere , and very shortly Mala and I were back on our ship as Posi took us off-planet , with much relief all round . |
| 28 | I met not a soul on the walk , but the path was in very good condition , a feature we noticed many times in NZ , that the tracks are well looked-after even when apparently hardly used . |
| 29 | He used to make the black and whites and the black coats with a silk stripe ; and I quite thought they were costermongers until I went to help a friend of mine — she kept a public house — and I met quite a lot of them there . |
| 30 | In an effort to combat the isolation and fear I felt at the time , I sought out a number of parents in similar situations to my own ; we had to create our own support systems . |