Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I became chief executive in 1971 and I then became responsible for the implementation of the plan . |
| 2 | ‘ As I became chief executive there was a change of policy . |
| 3 | In the course of my newspaper work for the Times-Herald I became Provincial Editor , a title which brought no increase in salary . |
| 4 | ‘ In every year since I became Prime Minister , more money has been spent on the health service . |
| 5 | When I became Prime Minister this is what I promised . |
| 6 | IN AN interview with The Independent newspaper , John Major complained of ‘ the inheritance I had when I became Prime Minister . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ When I became Prime Minister we were on the eve of war to free Kuwait . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I became head chef in a kitchen with two cordon bleu chefs at The Rose Revived in Oxford . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I asked Grand Met how it justified the rent increases being imposed . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I knew the children were not usually encouraged to guess so I asked one boy directly . |
| 16 | I asked one lecturer " What do you wish me to do now ? " and his answer was " That 's for you to decide . |
| 17 | I asked one member of a church planting team to look back on the experience . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I asked one pupil if he ever said Grace . |
| 20 | I asked one evening . |
| 21 | So the reason I asked that question is because I wanted to see if you were already thinking like an archaeologist . |
| 22 | But , you see , I asked that question , the final one , the only one that mattered , a long time after . |
| 23 | I asked that question , it has not been answered . |
| 24 | More or less what I asked personal point of view that er one is afraid that Europe , as it is , is rather limited . |
| 25 | I asked Brown Owl if we could sell the cakes that were left over and give the money to Blue Peter . |
| 26 | In order to discover whether voice setting and other factors might give hearers clues to a speaker 's ethnicity , I asked 43 East London children aged about 14 to listen to 12 short stretches of speech on tape and fill in a questionnaire . |
| 27 | It turned out , when I asked another student about her , that she spent most of her time organizing the Drama Society and almost never came into the department . |
| 28 | I asked another teacher , ‘ Well , what do you think ? ’ she said ‘ You were wrong to shout back at her full stop ! |
| 29 | I I know the question about rent was mentioned but , I 'm just talking generally now , I asked this question to another housing association how do you justify rents of sixty pounds and above for accommodation and social housing ? |
| 30 | Erm but I mean i i you know the reason I asked this question is that , if this group said now , Absolutely no way . |