Example sentences of "i [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three weeks ago I became the proud owner of a Chihuahua and he 's changed my life completely . |
| 2 | When we got home , Dad came to the rescue , with the necessary bob ( as a shilling was called ) and so , on the following day , I became the proud owner of my very own tool set . |
| 3 | Not long after I 'd started the notebook , I became the proud owner of my first pair of binoculars . |
| 4 | So I became the only bluesman in Kensal Green . |
| 5 | Then I became the black sheep and I found to my horror that everyone thought I was off my bloody head . |
| 6 | In 1951 , when I was nineteen , I became the first home-grown sex symbol in austerity Britain . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The more celebrated I became the worse I painted and the more false I felt . |
| 10 | Now I became the second edition . |
| 11 | I caught up a bit during the '60s when I became the oldest teenager in town — in fact I was in my early thirties . |
| 12 | It was not until about a year later , when I became the High Master of Warboys , that I took him into Warboys and made him a sort of Staff pilot flying Oxford aircraft on special navigational training exercises ; this was something that I could physically check and I do not know why it is , and I am not being clever now , I just accepted the evidence he gave me of this phoney flying . |
| 13 | And so I became the single , visible manifestation of homosexuality in South Yorkshire . |
| 14 | I asked the Assistant Commissioner to let me go to Helsinki and he refused . |
| 15 | The following day I asked the young women of an all-girls ' school I was visiting if they had seen her , and what they thought . |
| 16 | Moreover , ’ he smiled , ‘ I asked the young gallant who was sitting by Benedicta to take care of both ladies . |
| 17 | What I asked the right hon. Gentleman — and what he has still not answered — is , would the Government veto a treaty with the word ’ federal ’ in it ? |
| 18 | I asked the right hon. Gentleman to appeal to the Roman Catholic Church to excommunicate the terrorists — the evil gang of murderers , and their supporters and helpers . |
| 19 | I asked the right hon. and learned Gentleman whether he knew that his right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition would go to Luigi 's restaurant and say what he said about phasing . |
| 20 | It was a clear night , but the radar was a mass of echoes and I asked the Belgian contact to give me an estimated course and speed of our quarry , and as a result of this we were able to pick it up . |
| 21 | I asked the new director there , John Hutchinson , whether this concerned him . |
| 22 | I asked the Chief Accountant . |
| 23 | I asked the Second Son . |
| 24 | When I asked the self-same question . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I put that as an amendment , not reiterating the entire Labour budget , but I asked the Liberal Democrats , who purport to want to erm provide that sort of service to vulnerable people could they not accept that extra half a million pounds as an amendment , and two out of the group abstained , the rest of them voted against that as an amendment . |
| 27 | AT a public election meeting held in St Luke 's Church Hall , Ferryhill , on Sunday , March 29 , I asked the following of the three candidates . |
| 28 | I asked the hon. Member before to bring the matter to my office . |
| 29 | I wanted to introduce Dana to Pernod , so I asked the old man for ‘ dos Pernod ’ . |
| 30 | I asked the old man why |