Example sentences of "i [vb past] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1951 , when I was nineteen , I became the first home-grown sex symbol in austerity Britain . |
| 2 | Later , because of my own initiative in originating the idea , I became the first Radio Editor in Canada , which meant writing a daily column about radio programmes , stars , and networks . |
| 3 | As I now personally from one of my previous lives in nineteen eighty-two , when I became the first Director of the newly independent National Federation of Community Organisations . |
| 4 | Now I became the second edition . |
| 5 | I asked the Second Son . |
| 6 | I walked in through the door and , feeling a bit lost , I asked the first person I saw if he knew whether the Social Secretary was around . |
| 7 | I made a last minute decision to go to this game . |
| 8 | Seeing there are three of you , it would make sense if I made a fourth and helped to leg . ’ |
| 9 | Latter and I made the second ascent of Fer de Lance on sight , confirming the E6 6b grade . |
| 10 | I produced a first version of that track in a week and they had it on the TV the next night ! |
| 11 | I was not aware that circumcision might be a painful , controversial , and perhaps an unethical procedure , but I planned the next attempt in compliance with the editor 's requests . |
| 12 | Actually I , I passed the next star test . |
| 13 | I checked the first one on my chart — a none-too-generous position near the back and on the left . |
| 14 | There was a spring in my step and when Craig Brewster played a nice through ball into the box , my old legs managed to carry me there and I got a second goal that I did n't expect . ’ |
| 15 | My application to do research at Cambridge was accepted , provided I got a first , but to my annoyance my supervisor was not Hoyle but a man called Denis Sciama , of whom I had not heard . |
| 16 | I got the first shot in : one good punch . |
| 17 | I remember being thrilled when I got the first whicker of recognition from my horse and most people feel happier and more confident riding a horse they know — even if it is n't well behaved ! |
| 18 | … half the year had gone , the clear smoke-free distances of early summer a thing of the past , and midsummer day over , before I got the first clue . |
| 19 | However , I had hardly got started before I got the first complaint . |
| 20 | ‘ I got the first ferry I could after I heard … |
| 21 | I got the first one except for this one . |
| 22 | Well , I did n't think it was anything but rudeness and I ca n't stand bad manners so I got the next train back and left him there . |
| 23 | So she said I 'm sorry , so I got the next nearest , I just can not waste any more time . |
| 24 | I got the next one . |
| 25 | You were looking a bit sorry for yourself when we came back cos he buys flowers and he gives , so he 'll buy them the day before , I got the next day , there their making in all that |
| 26 | It was five one pound bets that we put on between us , I put two on , my wife put three on , and all mine were place bets , and I got the winner and I got the fourth , and my wife got the second , and the other one of hers lost . |
| 27 | A few miles outside Ulm in the little town of Rammingen I got the last available room in the Landgasthof Adler ( Eagle ) . |
| 28 | But it 's still the same , but it 's the pains that I got the last time that 's gon it 's like sharp pains that 's going round about , just the insides of the nipple . |
| 29 | I got the last of them . |
| 30 | I got The Last Boy Scout . |