Example sentences of "i [vb past] [art] " in BNC.

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1 A passenger sitting next to me flung a coin into the river with great enthusiasm .
2 Me got a make a
3 ah me got a
4 Extract 1 : The ghost One day me met a witch Jamaica [ inaudible ] me ( gor ra ) mother — me saw her dere , me sit down an she tell me all the story alrigh% ?
5 The figure before me bore no relation whatever to the Alec I remembered .
6 The enormous success of the BBC 's Follow Me demonstrated the huge scale of the demand .
7 In 1963 I became a CID aide or trainee detective , engaged in run-of-the-mill work dealing with a flow of petty crime .
8 ‘ 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 ‘ To cut a long story short — I became a potter . ’
12 This was one reason why I became a postnatal supporter for a year and why I trained as a breastfeeding counsellor .
13 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 .
14 She was still in that office when , in January 1954 , I became a secondary-school teacher .
15 I became a bird watcher in Orkney .
16 I became a good golfer , a one-handicapper , at the municipal course in Southport .
17 As I developed I became a big bloke and that stood me in good stead .
18 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 .
19 I became a very good eyeballer , and I could read any line on any green .
20 Then I became a Maoist .
21 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 .
22 Years later when I became a painter , many of my subjects were Biblical .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 I became a father late in life , and I know it 's a cliché , but she was the apple of my eye .
28 Cardinal Newman wrote in his Apologia pro vita sua , ‘ From the time that I became a Catholic …
29 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 .
30 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 .
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