Example sentences of "i have recently [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Like the other women , I 'd recently left my own home because I could n't carry on there any longer and I 'd been given safe spaces by friends with room to spare . |
| 2 | It might have been a delayed reaction to the drugs I had been taking for an operation I 'd recently had on my foot , but this seemed unlikely . |
| 3 | I had recently heard from the Foreign Office that the Emperor had agreed to my undertaking this journey . |
| 4 | Having admired his free verse for some years I had recently ploughed through his somewhat monumental work , the first two volumes of ‘ Abraham Lincoln — The Prairie Years ’ and enjoyed it . |
| 5 | This I did three times before getting in , largely on the strength of some Moroccan paintings I had recently completed . |
| 6 | I told him I had recently written a letter . |
| 7 | I had recently stayed with him in Scotland : knowing him was a help , for I felt out of my milieu . |
| 8 | I had recently read that in America , research had suggested that Neon Tetra Disease could be due to a virus of the liver . |
| 9 | After the war I vowed I would never wear a white tie again , and never have , I dislike it so much ; so , having been informed that most of those below the salt would be wearing black ties anyway , I put on my Kennedy tartan smoking jacket with green velvet facings which I had recently had made and of which I was sure that Sir Walter , who often wore a plaid , would have approved . |
| 10 | I had recently had my little girl , her dad had walked out on me , and I thought he was just another man who had what he wanted and then left me . |
| 11 | A nasty experience I had recently brought to mind an interesting phenomenon — how appropriate people 's names often are . |
| 12 | Ironically , my father , mother , younger brother and I had recently returned to England from Singapore , at the end of a four-year posting . |
| 13 | However , I 've recently split up with my boyfriend because of the pressures of failing to conceive . |
| 14 | We 're both disabled : my wife is almost completely unable to walk , and I ca n't go very far because I 've recently lost half a lung |
| 15 | Incidentally , I trust that the fretwire used is up to scratch ; I 've recently seen a few Korean guitars with very soft fretwire which would probably need a re-fret after only a short time . |
| 16 | Well I 've recently seen that they 've started selling it in Sainsbury 's again . |
| 17 | I own an ex-Irish army Series III 1972 Land Rover , I 've recently fitted a Range Rover V8 instead of the 2,25 and would like to know if I can put a transfer box on to a 5-speed SD1 gear box . |
| 18 | I 've recently moved here from Heymouth ’ |
| 19 | I 've recently moved into a village which has a rector . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've recently found this really nice Greek restaurant . |
| 21 | ‘ Possibly because the new ventilation system I 've recently supervised being installed in a factory in one of the Arab Emirates has proved so successful that I have orders for two more , or possibly because I 've just spent four weeks at full stretch in a very hot country with very little relaxation and deserve a holiday — but more probably because I own a majority stockholding in the company I bought cheap and built up to its present eminence , which gives me the position of chairman and managing director and full autonomy in deciding what I do , where I do it and with whom . ’ |
| 22 | I 've recently started to have a problem controlling red algae , especially on the coral sand . |
| 23 | I find this very difficult to erm , to relate , to relate hard work to the women portraying in , in this , we 've got the postcard of that one , erm it must of been hard work and very tedious , but I think every now and then the moment breaks away and shines through at the back , and I think people like , like Gaugin erm captures those moments and then releases them on the canvass , and I hope that erm by , I hope I 've been able to show you how I use art as a voice erm and a friend as my own work , even though we 've maybe had to do such a sort of hand fist way , hand fisted way , erm , but , I , I 've recently started to re-visit old favourite of paintings and I found that the story they tell sometimes has changed dramatically , maybe sometimes when your very little that , that , you know , sometimes dramatically as well , erm , but I , mostly , most importantly its , its still , I still find them , all of them compelling and challenging and , and something to stride for in my own work , erm , er only time will tell so I 'll finish with the , the last poem which is erm comes from the postcard what 's going round which is harvest , its called Patterns In The Grass , Wheat cut and falls , making lion head patterns in the grass , sickle shaped women bend and bow as a naive dressed as a dog steals the evening meal . |
| 24 | Well sir , I 've recently come across an American sex survey in which a large number of US ladies were asked the question : ‘ How long do you usually like love play to last ? ’ |
| 25 | Since I 've recently had my car radio stolen I 'm quite in favour of them not being sold at the car boot sales perhaps somebody would like to returns it to me but erm , the , you know , I 'm er you know they do need some restr , some legislation but I would n't want them to be legislated out of existence . |
| 26 | As I have recently sought to emphasise , we owe our identity as human beings to the fact that by contrast with other animals we belong to societies constituted by sharing values . ’ |
| 27 | I must tell him that I have recently written to all the representative small business organisations in the United Kingdom asking them to give me examples of where excessive regulation is impeding their business . |
| 28 | I have recently heard , and read , several reports about the paint ‘ peeling away ’ and have even heard rumours that a few of David Hockney 's originals are peeling away from their canvases , causing chaos with their owners , who are apparently demanding refunds ! |
| 29 | At home I have recently seen an otherwise robust learning till from a reputable toy manufacturer , a sewing box and a tool box , all break at the pivot or hinge . |
| 30 | Only 5ft 8ins tall and under 10st in weight , he covers the ground quicker than anyone I have recently seen , with the exception of one he resembles , South Africa 's Jonty Rhodes . |