Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children were prohibited from smoking in the streets and the sale of tobacco to them became an offence . |
| 2 | Hitherto , confident reports from senior commanders and censorship had between them created an impression of light losses , but great numbers of prisoners taken . |
| 3 | ‘ Since I became an officer in the SS , I 've often been in a position to satisfy my craving . ’ |
| 4 | I became an expert at putting my rollers on in the dark and listening to the Top Twenty under the sheets . |
| 5 | I became an exile in my own land . ’ |
| 6 | As the fear of raids increased , I became an ambulance driver , on duty mainly through the nights , while women drivers took the day shifts . |
| 7 | You see , when I became an inspector on the railway eventually , it was like a fire being damped down . |
| 8 | At the age of eleven I became an errand boy for a working tailor , and every Saturday , and perhaps on an evening in the week , delivered the suits and costumes that he had made , though often the finished article was well behind the promised date , so the errand boy received critical comments rather than a small tip . |
| 9 | I faced this onslaught yesterday as I became an assistant in Selfridges on the second day of their sale . |
| 10 | In Dennis 's presence I became an outlaw once again , and Karen my moll . |
| 11 | MacArthur is modestly surprised by all the praise and talk of awards that has greeted her recent performances : ‘ These roles have a lot to do with the reason I became an actress in the first place — I still think of my career as being about to begin ! ’ |
| 12 | I asked an eye specialist , a thoughtful and genuinely caring man , how patients responded to going blind . |
| 13 | I chucked an overall last night with forty pence in it . |
| 14 | toothbrush I always wanted to do that I read an article somewhere this journalist |
| 15 | ‘ Dear Mr Ken Ward , I made an order for the survival bag as you kindly indicated . |
| 16 | I went into the garden where I made an H-shaped cut through to the nest with a spade . |
| 17 | So I made an approach , a long low approach and happily there was a bit of a crosswind from the portside , I decided to use this crosswind to help me place the aircraft at the end of my run off the normal line of landing and nearer to the engineering hangar . |
| 18 | I made an incision across each mark , and established the presence of extravasated blood . ’ |
| 19 | I made an excuse and settled for tea and muesli . |
| 20 | So I made an excuse , I said I was ill , and rushed off home . |
| 21 | I made an excuse to call on our twelfth man and I asked him to tell our manager , Khalid Mahmood , what was going on . |
| 22 | I made an excuse to come out . |
| 23 | When they said it was almost a certainty , I made an excuse and nipped out to see Purvis . |
| 24 | ‘ I made an exception once , ’ he said with very little subtlety , ‘ and it was a lesson well learnt . ’ |
| 25 | It was then still dark , and knowing I had a full day 's motoring ahead of me , I made an attempt to return to sleep . |
| 26 | I made an attempt to speak . |
| 27 | I made an attempt to move out of the way then it struck me . ’ |
| 28 | I made an offer to the hon. Member for Alyn and Deeside that he may well recall . |
| 29 | I am not sure what the hon. Member for Worsley ( Mr. Lewis ) is trying to say , but although I made an offer to his hon. Friend the Member for Alyn and Deeside , the hon. Gentleman did not come to see me . |
| 30 | Since I made an arrangement with the man in your office I am having a baby and my doctor says I should be getting more of it . |