Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should perhaps add that I was not a member of the committee who heard these appeals in the first hearing since I became involved only when your Lordships who sat in the first hearing suggested a second hearing under my chairmanship and accordingly I have not been asked to consider this matter apart from the discussion of the extracts from Hansard which have been put before us in this appeal . |
| 2 | I became involved when I attended a clinic , thinking I was going to assist with the tea-making ! |
| 3 | As a newcomer to such work , I became involved through a meeting with Johanna Carrie . |
| 4 | Mr Nath said : ‘ The reason I became involved was I went to Romania to see another child , Bogdan , on whom I did an operation . |
| 5 | As a boy , encouraged by my mother , I became fascinated by the mass of mostly unsorted papers lying in the cellars at Plas Newydd . |
| 6 | From this first experiment , I became fascinated with the problem of including lights in paintings . |
| 7 | I became fascinated by the variety of ways . |
| 8 | From this first experiment , I became fascinated with the problem of including lights in paintings . |
| 9 | I became fascinated by the variety of ways . |
| 10 | We did n't see any whales , sharks , or polar bears underwater , but I became fascinated by the cast of characters which made up the food chain in these waters . |
| 11 | To begin with I found the subject somewhat tedious , but as the weeks passed I became fascinated by how meticulously recording each transaction could prove to be so beneficial even to our little business . |
| 12 | Whilst at college I became intrigued by the evidence that Indian art seemed to mean ancient Indian art , referring only to that era before imperialism . |
| 13 | I became assimilated into the gay community and my identity as a Black person sloughed off me . |
| 14 | At the back , sometimes out of sight of the others , I became engrossed in my own problems . |
| 15 | ‘ It hit Britain in a big way in the mid 80s and I became engrossed in the game . |
| 16 | He commented on his project : ‘ The more I explored , the more I became absorbed with the mystery of the environment . |
| 17 | But little by little , as I became absorbed into rural life , I came to enjoy my ‘ inconveniences ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ Your reflections , ’ Hope cried out to the apparently enraptured merchant , ‘ set off my own — as do all the most acute thoughts , scattering from the hand like seeds , each of which can take on a life of its own , and I confess that I became absorbed in those great matters of morality and commerce raised by your eloquent conversation . ’ |
| 19 | I became engaged in a violent battle , first on behalf of the profession and subsequently as a mediator , when Mrs Barbara Castle — then the Secretary of State for Health and Social Security — pursued an honourable , but in my view misguided , determination to eradicate private practice from this country . |
| 20 | I became hooked on adventure stories by R.L. Stevenson , Ballantyne , Rider Haggard and many more . |
| 21 | Life became so stressful that when I was making The Power Game the doctor put me on Mogadon and I became hooked for a while . |
| 22 | Coober Pedy ( form the aboriginal kupa piti meaning " white man 's burrow " ) has a large migrant population but it was an Australian who dug me out when I became bogged down in the dull-dust , and an old swagman on the road who warned me to keep an eye on the weather . |
| 23 | I slid down until I became entangled in some bracken . |
| 24 | So flustered was I , in fact , that I became entangled with the bicycles in the hall ( my sons always keep them there , and other things being equal I usually get past them without too much difficulty ) , and I arrived in the dining-room even more distraught than I set out from the study . |
| 25 | Once we had begun to look at particular steps in the biochemical cascade in more detail , however , I became persuaded that reasonably specific inhibitors might help cast light on relevant mechanisms . |
| 26 | Looking intermittently at the so-called colonial art of Latin America in churches , museums , private collections and books , I became magnetised by the figures of angels . |
| 27 | It was only when I actually visited the Broads that I became infected with the same enthusiasm which led Ransome to write the books . |
| 28 | I became acquainted with her brother Pavel Sergeevich Popov , a university professor . |
| 29 | ‘ After I became involved we came up with denim products , which had great success for ladies ’ fashions . |
| 30 | If I have a free choice , I seek an organization which I perceive has goals , values and beliefs similar to my own . |