Example sentences of "i [verb] the " 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 | So I became the only bluesman in Kensal Green . |
| 3 | In 1951 , when I was nineteen , I became the first home-grown sex symbol in austerity Britain . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But my stage tended to turn into a revolving stage and I became the recipient of endless encores . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In the tabloid press I became the villain who put his knife into Noddy and his boot into Biggles . |
| 8 | And so I became the single , visible manifestation of homosexuality in South Yorkshire . |
| 9 | I became the kind of woman that my friends , mother , sisters and other friends warned them about . |
| 10 | I became the manager of one shop , I was there so long . |
| 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 | Not long after I 'd started the notebook , I became the proud owner of my first pair of binoculars . |
| 13 | Then I became the black sheep and I found to my horror that everyone thought I was off my bloody head . |
| 14 | I became the victim in what was a wholly unbalanced relationship . |
| 15 | Within minutes my offer was all over the Docherty suite , and I became the source of hysterical laughter , ridicule and abuse . |
| 16 | That night over dinner in the company of Peter and his wife Liz I became the possessor of an astonishing fact . |
| 17 | I , I did n't I came off the council at that time and er I became the president of the gathering . |
| 18 | The more celebrated I became the worse I painted and the more false I felt . |
| 19 | Now I became the second edition . |
| 20 | Shortly after I became the Member for Worcester , the Queen Mother visited my constituency . |
| 21 | Twenty five years ago I became the Member of Parliament for East Grinstead . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I became the director of this project , which proved very difficult and time-consuming . |
| 27 | How do I make the application ? |
| 28 | I would try and get people to work as a team together and then when it obviously is n't going to work properly , only then would I make the decision . |
| 29 | I asked myself each time , Why ca n't I make the pot boil ? |
| 30 | Can I make the point as a country dweller |