Example sentences of "i have [adv] [verb] [prep] this " in BNC.
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1 | I 'd rather taken against this woman — she was frightfully solid and know-it-all and not funny , you know — and to be difficult I asked her how she knew this , thinking that she would quote out of some boring manual or other . |
2 | Now you can cross Snow White off and all we 've got left to find is witch , oh , there it is , right go from the W , W , W , from the W , right now come down , oh I 'd better help with this one because it 's diagonal , I T C |
3 | The meeting had been arranged with intense , frantic planning as to detail , with letters despatched by lawyers through couriers , paragraphs changed bo mutual request , assurances as to what I could say or not and , indeed , whether I could admit that I had even appeared on this day at the august offices of Olympia & York . |
4 | I had n't heard of this ‘ tide of concern ’ that governments might over-react to the threat of global warming . |
5 | I had n't felt like this when I 'd seen him firing the shotgun . |
6 | And I , when I read it , I had n't looked at this , but I never thought it was really , I did n't sit there going |
7 | I wondered why I had n't thought of this before . |
8 | If I had n't got through this time I was going to phone them to check a fault . ’ |
9 | Although I had n't come across this Siberian wader before , it does turn up in Shetland occasionally . |
10 | I had n't come to this place with the conscious intention of divesting myself of my now cumbersome virginity ; but from the moment I saw the actor again — certainly from the moment his arms went round me and I felt the sense of fond familiarity , of affection rediscovered — I knew it was inevitable that we should , sooner or later , make love . |
11 | I had already heard about this plan because the doctor had discussed it with my father ; but it was apparent that Eric himself was not at all enthusiastic about it . |
12 | In my ignorance , I had never heard of this extraordinary saga , and I did indeed spend some absorbing time in the church learning something about it . |
13 | ‘ When we started to rehearse , I had never heard of this slim , fair , rather shy person , ’ he recalled . |
14 | Tobin : I had never heard of this guy . |
15 | ‘ I had never heard of this before , and you can imagine the complaints from customers , we could only tell them once the police had told us . |
16 | When I had sufficiently recovered from this onslaught , two points remained fixed in my mind . |
17 | I 've already referred to this syndrome . |
18 | you know as I say I 've not worked in this division but I I know that these have been fully sold , that 's the sort of money and once again that has to be done in three weeks . |
19 | I 've just returned from this year 's Prix de Lausanne and the two Russian boys who entered were kicked out . |
20 | ‘ I do n't think I 've ever heard about this , Edna . ’ |
21 | ‘ That is the noisiest frog I 've ever had in this laboratory , ’ snapped Miss Hardbroom with a piercing glance at the jar . |
22 | And I always remember , now whether this is true I would n't know , and I do n't think I 've ever spoke about this before but I , thinking about it just now , it 's just struck me , I remember one chap saying , Well now if we put some barbed wire across the road about two foot high , he said , No horse will jump over barbed wire , now I do n't know I do n't suppose that 's true I do n't think it is but this chap said that . |
23 | ‘ You know it was — more beautiful than anything I 've ever experienced in this whole world . ’ |
24 | I 've often felt like this since , mostly on occasions connected with Jenny . |
25 | ‘ I mean I 've always been out of sorts , I 've always felt like this — oh , you know — almost as long as I can remember . ’ |
26 | ‘ I 've never felt like this before . |
27 | ‘ I 've never felt like this before , Miranda . |
28 | ‘ I 've never felt like this about any other girl . ’ |
29 | I 've never felt like this before — not so suddenly . ’ |
30 | I just feel done today I 've never felt like this before you know ? |