Example sentences of "i [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I became bored and wandered back to the library . |
| 2 | I became chief executive in 1971 and I then became responsible for the implementation of the plan . |
| 3 | ‘ As I became chief executive there was a change of policy . |
| 4 | I became numb again to discomfort to a useful degree and plodded on methodically taking continual bearings , breathing carefully , aiming performance just below capability so as to last out to the end . |
| 5 | I became poor , it being Thy will , but with joy . |
| 6 | Being aware of the stress and pressure that many people and their families experience when AIDS or HIV is first diagnosed , I became involved in counselling . |
| 7 | Being aware of the stress and pressures that many people and their families experience with AIDS or HIV is first diagnoses , I became involved in counselling . |
| 8 | Brathay Women 's Institute decided to work on Spinning Galleries , and as I am a spinner and weaver and at that time was a member of the Institute , I became involved in the search for galleries . |
| 9 | The more I became involved in the executive work of CBC the less I liked it , but the more I worked with Ira Dilworth the more I liked him . |
| 10 | Before I became involved in business , I really had very few goals — with the result that I did n't get very far . |
| 11 | In leaving home I became involved in student union politics , particularly round the issue of overseas students . |
| 12 | I became involved with the Union ( ACTTS ) when an Equal Opportunities Policy Working Party was set up by them in 1984 . |
| 13 | The main reason I became involved in birds of prey was to teach them to hunt for me — and of course for themselves — so a goshawk is a must for the near future . |
| 14 | I became involved with the inhabitants as soon as I was old enough to overturn a leaf . |
| 15 | I became involved with him some years ago when I was consulted by Lord Rayne who told me that he had a friend — a leading paediatrician in London — whose daughter was in serious trouble . |
| 16 | Consequently I became involved in various meetings between the union and the representatives of the television companies , particularly a very long one at my home in Ashley Gardens , where Harold Wilson was invited to attend and indeed did so . |
| 17 | Living in San'a , I was initially engrossed in the visual aspects of the architecture , but as I became involved with the Yemeni families , I started to record as accurately as possible all aspects of the traditional San'a culture that was rapidly being swallowed up by Western influence . |
| 18 | For the first time , but by no means the last , I became involved in that Kafkaesque bureaucratic fog which , more than any aspect of public life , serves to drain one of psychic energy . |
| 19 | I have always loved dogs and I became involved with the association when I met a lady who was also involved in puppy training . |
| 20 | After a while I became calmer ; then the postman came , and the milkman , and life became more normal . |
| 21 | Slowly I became calmer among the beautiful mountains . |
| 22 | Young Black and I became good friends . |
| 23 | I became seasoned , gained experience , all the while preparing myself for the lucky chance that would surely come . |
| 24 | ‘ And I became worthless in my own eyes . |
| 25 | ‘ Since I became pregnant he has n't been interested in me ’ |
| 26 | Since I became pregnant five months ago , he has neglected me . |
| 27 | And then it happened , the event to change all this , I became pregnant . |
| 28 | My husband left me when I became pregnant . |
| 29 | When I was 19 my parents made me leave home , and after a series of disastrous relationships I became pregnant . |
| 30 | And I became pregnant again and they were falling over themselves to do an abortion for me . |