Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I switched on the engine , closed my eyes and … felt like I 'd just stepped onto a corporation bus . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd already gone on a beginners ’ sailing weekend , and although it was very rough — not beginners ' weather at all — I really loved it . ’ |
| 3 | I 've had a girlfriend for two and a half years , but before that I 'd never spoken to a girl in my life . |
| 4 | at party yeah I was in the toilet yeah and this bloke comes in and goes oh and I 'd only got like a hit 's worth left |
| 5 | It was coming at me like a bullet , head shaking , lips curled back , teeth long and yellow and by far the biggest I 'd ever seen on a rabbit , live or dead . |
| 6 | ‘ I first came across Virginia Woolf through Orlando when I was a teenage person and it was the first time that I felt really addressed by a writer , ’ she says . |
| 7 | ‘ In Swansea , I heard a chant I had n't heard for a while : ‘ Who beat the Wallabies ? ’ |
| 8 | There was an expression on her face I had n't seen in a long time . |
| 9 | ‘ I should n't think he wants to , ’ Perkin remarked as I had n't answered in a rush . |
| 10 | I noticed how happy people were , which was something I had n't known for a long time . |
| 11 | ‘ If I had n't replied to a client for five months I would almost expect a visit from them in response to a complaint ! ’ |
| 12 | I had also asked for a chair-lift and a motorised wheelchair , which have not arrived . |
| 13 | I had already moved onto a better job by then , along with all the other officers who had worked on the loan . |
| 14 | ‘ Before contracting the illness I had already gone through a nightmare year with injuries . |
| 15 | I had already come across a congratulatory account of this transformation in Jules Verne . |
| 16 | For I had already sat through a grave miscarriage of justice . |
| 17 | I had not looked in a mirror for a long time , not closely . |
| 18 | ‘ I had not worked for a few months so I was ready to do something , ’ is how he explains his reasons for doing it . |
| 19 | I had just moved into a flat with my boyfriend and I was beginning to feel very guilty . |
| 20 | I was feel very proud of myself because I had just progressed from a tiny red tricycle to riding a huge yellow proper bicycle , with stabilizers . |
| 21 | I had just returned from a training stint in Lanzarote . |
| 22 | Mowbray said : ‘ I had just recovered from an Achilles injury on my right leg when I hurt my left ankle . |
| 23 | His view of Ireland , a highly romanticised one , had been initiated by his reading of Heinrich Böll 's Irisches Tagebuch which , coincidentally , I had just read as a way of getting into German again after two decades of neglect . |
| 24 | I had never taught in a classroom before but , although daunting at first , it turned out to be education for me as well as the students . |
| 25 | When I signed up for the trip I really did n't know just what to expect ; when I got my packet information I wondered how I would stand up to it but I soon found I adjusted very well and even though I had never slept in a tent in a tent in a sleeping bag or had any experience canoeing I did OK . |
| 26 | I had never worked with an actor like that . |
| 27 | Although I had always lived in a freezing cold damp house and spent a lot of my own childhood in hospital and even remember my own mum referring to our flats as pneumonia houses , in my ignorance I had never made the connection between our living conditions , ill health and the social and environmental climate . |
| 28 | I was excited to use it since I had only painted onto a stretched canvas once before , and I stretched it eagerly and tightly . |
| 29 | ‘ I had only returned from a holiday in Dublin and had n't the price of the airline ticket , so I had to borrow from my mum , ’ said Deirdre , who is the mother of a five-year-old daughter , Emma . |
| 30 | I had once played for a Media XI against the local club . |