Example sentences of "i have [adv] [vb pp] in " in BNC.
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| 31 | In answer I did something I had not done in years . |
| 32 | There seemed to be a lot of faces I had not noticed in the original team . |
| 33 | I had not looked in a mirror for a long time , not closely . |
| 34 | I had just sent in last month 's article on the rib transfer carriage and shadow lace , when I received a letter from Mr David Dick of Irvine , Ayrshire , asking about knitting an embossed lace pattern using the ribber . |
| 35 | The journey I had just completed in the Arussi had been the first I had undertaken in the highlands of Abyssinia . |
| 36 | I had just winched in the staysail 's port sheet when the explosion sounded , or something so like an explosion that I instinctively cowered by Wavebreaker 's rail as my mind whipped back to the crash of practice shells ripping through the sleet in Norway . |
| 37 | The doctors told me to go back to Cambridge and carry on with the research I had just started in general relativity and cosmology . |
| 38 | I had just succeeded in sitting upright when the fishmonger appeared . |
| 39 | I had never believed in Swinging London in any way , and always felt it was a figment of Time magazine 's imagination . ’ |
| 40 | I had never believed in ghosts but what I had seen was unaccountable . |
| 41 | Then I spotted them — superb orange orchids of a kind I had never seen in Danu . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | Of course , I had never walked in snow before , and I found that it made my feet very cold . |
| 45 | As I had never climbed in Borrowdale I left the selection to Sid . |
| 46 | Everyone said what they thought and I said I had always believed in God and Jesus Christ due to my upbringing , personal feelings and experiences but I found commitment difficult . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | The first project was a film on Scapa Flow made with a director whose talent in obtaining striking images of light on water , cloud formation , or reeds bending in the wind I had greatly admired in his previous work . |
| 49 | The gilded chair by the dressing-table was strewn with clothing , just as I had seen it when I had sometimes taken in her morning tisane . |
| 50 | It was also a revelation to see the wildlife — birds and animals which I had only seen in Zoos were free for me to enjoy . |
| 51 | It might have been transported from the South of France , one of those lush semi-palaces I had only seen in photos . |
| 52 | I could have got annoyed that I had n't been left on my own , but I had to admit that by myself I had only succeeded in getting sucked into my own sub-persona . |
| 53 | He , he did n't realize that I had more stacked in the other room ready to come out |
| 54 | Even Europe was represented , in what was almost identical to a traditional flag-dance I had once seen in rural Portugal . |
| 55 | Some twenty-five years later , when I became interested in hypnosis and then in regression therapy , I began to wonder whether my earlier fascination was because I had actually lived in Tudor times . |
| 56 | Not that I had ever believed in the heart marching ahead alone . |
| 57 | In front of me sat the smartest and most alert looking person I had ever seen in my life . |
| 58 | They were certainly the ugliest animals I had ever seen in all my travels . |
| 59 | I do n't think I had ever run in such marvellous conditions . |
| 60 | On the day of the Station sports I tried harder than I had ever tried in any of my events , and the results were exactly as predicted by old Doc Whittingham " not in the first three , could make fourth if he really tries hard enough " ( which could be the story of my life ) . |