Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having for ten years owned and managed one of the most successful econometric consultancy companies in the world ( then called Economic Models Limited ) , I became increasingly disabused of notions for controlling the flow of economic events against their natural movement . |
| 2 | The men and women I met often spoke of regret and loss — not a nostalgia for the past , those glazed memories that falsify the hard history of the working people by claiming that the past was better . |
| 3 | I ca n't I ca n't really think I 'll have to make a list out you know but er you know I got just think of anything that 's , you know as I say I 've got got some fo cat food will get some dry cat food yeah Oh I cou sta if I start thinking I 'll I 'll I 'll |
| 4 | I did n't think that was bad , considering I 'd just thought of it . |
| 5 | It was a surprise because I 'd barely thought of her since I was fucked by her dog , an incident with which she had become associated in my mind : Helen and dog-cock went together . |
| 6 | And suddenly I realised that there was a whole lot more going on than I 'd even thought of . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd already thought of that , ’ Laura told her gloomily . |
| 8 | I 'd often thought of doing a TV commercial . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd never heard of it before in relation to dogs but our vet was wonderful . |
| 10 | ‘ I told you I 'd never heard of him . ’ |
| 11 | I spent the night thankfully unaware of the marathon needlework going on in my chest and drifted back late in the morning to a mass of tubes and machines and techniques I 'd never heard of . |
| 12 | He played me a record of some Stockhausen , whom I 'd never heard of . ’ |
| 13 | Well , I 'd never heard of Lloyd 's . ’ |
| 14 | I 'd never heard of Eternity before , nor had anyone I knew . |
| 15 | I walked into this little club on the highway and I 'd never heard of them before , but there was this great , white blues band . |
| 16 | John , 39 , found the record haul while renovating a Liverpool house and dumped them ‘ because I 'd never heard of Larry Lurex ’ . |
| 17 | I 'd never heard of it before , yet it 's so easy to catch — I got it purely from food . |
| 18 | Because er as far as I 'd concerned I 'd never heard of air raids before hand you know , know I had n't and I was , as I say , I was only nine and a half I know but er , I did use to speak to a lot more people than most , er lads of that age did like , you know . |
| 19 | ‘ And , for your information , I 've long wished that I 'd never heard of you — or your wretched grandmother . |
| 20 | I 'd never heard of work till that moment , and there I was thinking of myself dressed in trousers and sitting at a desk with a ledger . |
| 21 | I 'd never heard of Knudsen until earlier this morning when I was somewhere over the North Sea on my way from England and I happened to open a magazine aimed at Nordic Airport passengers . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , I 'm certainly wishing I 'd never heard of the wretched letters , that 's for sure ! ’ she exclaimed , recovering her spirit . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd never heard of Guillain-Barré Syndrome before . |
| 24 | I 'd never heard of it . |
| 25 | I 'D never heard of Mike Harding until I moved to Sedbergh , a little town not too far from Hawes , but a long way away from anywhere else . |
| 26 | Well er I 'd never heard of it . |
| 27 | I 'd never heard of it . |
| 28 | Well I 'd never heard of salt being put down before ! |
| 29 | Oh , well she told me she was working , but I 'd never heard of , some sewing place , it must be in Wrexham . |
| 30 | Rather like running the YMCA in fact , although I 'd never thought of it like that before . |