Example sentences of "i [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The important debate in my opinion that we shall have this Committee stage and it is for that reason and also because for four-and-a-half years which I think is regarded as a very long time , I was answerable for police affairs er with the Home Secretary in another place , as the Noble Lord , Lord Callaghan will remember , many years ago , it goes back to January nineteen fifty-eight when I became Under Secretary and he was political advisor to the Police Federation and we very rarely disagreed I 'm happy to say . |
| 2 | I became at once possessive about it … there was already talk about the war ending and Sadler 's Wells reopening and it seemed to me entirely fitting for the Sadler 's Wells Company to reopen the theatre at Rosebery Avenue after the war with a new opera by a leading young English composer . |
| 3 | Much as the work fascinated me , and fonder each day as I became of Edward , there was nevertheless a growing sense of frustration . |
| 4 | But the more I thought about his view the less happy I became about it . |
| 5 | When I became in a conscious way feminist I pondered long what it meant that a woman could not in such a way depict Christ as being in her image . |
| 6 | ‘ In the end I became like the chaplain or the lady who did the hair or the manicurist. patients would ask , ‘ has the artist done you yet ? ’ |
| 7 | Stalling for his arrival I asked about the religion . |
| 8 | I asked about her daughter and her son and husband . |
| 9 | About four years ago , while negotiating a new house insurance , I asked about coverage of my wife 's knitting machines while in transit to and from evening classes . |
| 10 | I asked about murder . |
| 11 | I asked about his wife . |
| 12 | I asked about her work before she married . |
| 13 | After using it , I asked about its accuracy , as the readings bore no resemblance to that of the chemical test kit . |
| 14 | He said , ‘ Well , I asked about your life . |
| 15 | I said , Why do n't you just say , ‘ I asked about those records you ordered ? ’ |
| 16 | I asked about 20 people emerging from the polling station . |
| 17 | ‘ I did not ask them about you , I asked about Jeopardy . ’ |
| 18 | I mean , ’ he stammered , ‘ when I asked about the funeral , you looked shocked and grieved . |
| 19 | I asked about her Home for Unmarried Mothers . |
| 20 | I asked about you down at the corner , the shop there . |
| 21 | Sometimes I asked about these stories . |
| 22 | Is he aware that , when I asked about the growth in employment in south Derbyshire recently , I was told that figures were available only until 1989 , that they are collected only once every six years and that figures for self-employment are collected only once every 10 years ? |
| 23 | When I asked about local amnesties , I was told : ’ It is for chief officers of police to consider whether offering opportunities for disposing of offensive weapons would be a worthwhile crime prevention initiative in their own force area . ’ |
| 24 | I asked about feeding , but Bill makes short shrift of this too — once a fortnight with Phostrogen . |
| 25 | I asked about you , and about Huxley , but I found nothing . |
| 26 | I asked about changing . |
| 27 | I asked about the baby and she looked at me as if I should know . ’ |
| 28 | I asked about side effects and was told all drugs have side effects , even paracetemol . |
| 29 | I asked about discipline , wondering how it compared with that at the central Scotland school where I taught . |
| 30 | can you think of an remember when I asked about introductions and things of that nature ? |