Example sentences of "i [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1963 I became a CID aide or trainee detective , engaged in run-of-the-mill work dealing with a flow of petty crime . |
| 2 | ‘ Since I can not be a Russian , ’ he says , ‘ I became a Slavophil ’ — an articulator , that is , of romantic church-andstate conservatism in the debates of the time : indeed a walking , talking theory . |
| 3 | To speak personally , I might have found life easier , though possibly less interesting , if the English synthesis had continued to exist in approximately the same state as when I became a university teacher at the end of the 1950s : a genuine humane discipline , self-respecting , enjoyable , expanding , with methods that were established and familiar , if subject to variation between the different emphases associated with Oxford and Cambridge . |
| 4 | I was made redundant less than a year after I became a Sheffield city councillor , and I 've never believed in those sorts of coincidences . |
| 5 | ‘ To cut a long story short — I became a potter . ’ |
| 6 | This was one reason why I became a postnatal supporter for a year and why I trained as a breastfeeding counsellor . |
| 7 | It followed that some schools were more competitive and selective academically than others : those which had no fee-payers ( in the pre-1932 sense ) were startlingly similar in character and purpose to the type of post-war grammar school of which , very much later , I became a head . |
| 8 | She was still in that office when , in January 1954 , I became a secondary-school teacher . |
| 9 | I became a bird watcher in Orkney . |
| 10 | I became a good golfer , a one-handicapper , at the municipal course in Southport . |
| 11 | As I developed I became a big bloke and that stood me in good stead . |
| 12 | I needed to earn a bit of extra money when I went on the tour and so I became a professional wrestler in my spare time . |
| 13 | I became a very good eyeballer , and I could read any line on any green . |
| 14 | Then I became a Maoist . |
| 15 | Whether I became a writer because of my desire for solitude or whether , being a writer I became more solitary , I still do not know . |
| 16 | Years later when I became a painter , many of my subjects were Biblical . |
| 17 | When Paul says : ‘ When I became a man I put away the things of children ’ , he does not mean rejecting the innocence , the sparkle and the insights of youth . |
| 18 | I became a car driver again widely overtaking walkers and cyclists , and made forays of comfortable detective work returning to my cornucopian base , some of the victuallings within you will learn about in the Lewis section . |
| 19 | I became a Market Gardener and my parents and sisters spent a lot of time not only on my costume but also in the decoration of my wheelbarrow . |
| 20 | I ca n't remember now whether in fact we were allowed any at all while we were in the Waaf , but I know that for the few years after I became a civilian again and clothes rationing still went on , the ration allocation was so small that the prospect of buying , for instance , a new winter coat was exceedingly small for most women , especially those with children , whose needs had to come first . |
| 21 | I became a father late in life , and I know it 's a cliché , but she was the apple of my eye . |
| 22 | Cardinal Newman wrote in his Apologia pro vita sua , ‘ From the time that I became a Catholic … |
| 23 | I can see this now , yet it was not until nearly ten years after I became a Christian that I finally faced the issue that whatever other influences had been involved in my conversion ( such as my family and friends and the work of God in my life ) there was a sense in which the decision to believe was entirely my responsibility . |
| 24 | About four years after completing my work with lead poisoning I became a lecturer in medical genetics , working part-time as by then I had two young children . |
| 25 | I became a croupier — starting work at 11 p.m. and finishing at 5 a.m . |
| 26 | And so I became a beneficiary again of the orifice revolution . |
| 27 | I became a loner , but I had to work at it . |
| 28 | I became a gloomily devoted mother . |
| 29 | Overnight , almost , I became a voyeur . |
| 30 | ‘ I became a woman very quickly . ’ |