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Example sentences of "i [vb past] the " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	The enormous success of the BBC 's Follow Me demonstrated the huge scale of the demand .
2	Three weeks ago I became the proud owner of a Chihuahua and he 's changed my life completely .
3	So I became the only bluesman in Kensal Green .
4	In 1951 , when I was nineteen , I became the first home-grown sex symbol in austerity Britain .
5	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 .
6	But my stage tended to turn into a revolving stage and I became the recipient of endless encores .
7	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 .
8	In the tabloid press I became the villain who put his knife into Noddy and his boot into Biggles .
9	And so I became the single , visible manifestation of homosexuality in South Yorkshire .
10	I became the kind of woman that my friends , mother , sisters and other friends warned them about .
11	I became the manager of one shop , I was there so long .
12	I caught up a bit during the '60s when I became the oldest teenager in town — in fact I was in my early thirties .
13	Not long after I 'd started the notebook , I became the proud owner of my first pair of binoculars .
14	Then I became the black sheep and I found to my horror that everyone thought I was off my bloody head .
15	I became the victim in what was a wholly unbalanced relationship .
16	Within minutes my offer was all over the Docherty suite , and I became the source of hysterical laughter , ridicule and abuse .
17	That night over dinner in the company of Peter and his wife Liz I became the possessor of an astonishing fact .
18	I , I did n't I came off the council at that time and er I became the president of the gathering .
19	The more celebrated I became the worse I painted and the more false I felt .
20	Now I became the second edition .
21	Shortly after I became the Member for Worcester , the Queen Mother visited my constituency .
22	Twenty five years ago I became the Member of Parliament for East Grinstead .
23	I had been trained in Mespot in the art of aerial survey by the Royal Engineers , which I felt was of no practical use to my squadron , thus I became the squadron photographic officer ( small p and small o ) .
24	Towards the end of my sojourn at Kinloss , and after I became the assistant to the chief ground instructor under a squadron leader , I was also seconded to the engineering wing .
25	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 .
26	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 .
27	I became the director of this project , which proved very difficult and time-consuming .
28	When I did Nurse Ratchett in One Flew Over The Cuckoo 's Nest up in Manchester I read the novel and found a speech in the book that was really wonderful on the character and I asked the director if I could read it for him .
29	The Commissioner states in his report : ‘ Because it seemed to me that the Minister 's letter implied that the NHS had an absolute duty to provide care for the complainant 's father once it became clear that he could no longer meet the nursing home fees , I asked the DoH for clarification of the legal position and invited their general views . ’
30	But I had to get research students from somewhere , so I asked the research councils to fund them , in the usual way , by submitting research proposals .