Example sentences of "i have [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd just turned right off the B1 150 at Fairstead when I nearly crashed into the back of this unlit car skewed across the road . |
| 2 | The party was held at his flat which was a loft in a warehouse down by the river in Shad Thames on a wharf right next to Tower Bridge I 'd never seen anywhere like it . |
| 3 | The mix of own compositions and covers worked well , bringing to my attention songs I 'd never heard before from the likes of Dick Gaughan and Steve Earle . |
| 4 | Erm , I had n't actually felt that violent , I 'd been having extremes of emotion all week erm , very high , very low , very very fearful , panic attacks which I 'd never had before in my life . |
| 5 | Still , I 'd always tried hard to be a good golfer , and playing off three handicap I knew would stand me in good stead . |
| 6 | But she said no I 'd better come tomorrow with Paula as well . |
| 7 | I was waiting for Professor Avenarius whom I 'd occasionally met here for a chat . |
| 8 | Not only had I written to ask Mr Briggs more about him , I had also written twice to Mrs Fairfax . |
| 9 | I had previously done likewise at the London magazine , Midweek , which I then edited . |
| 10 | Ruth Atucehene , an immigrant from Ghana , said : ‘ I had just come home from church and I was in the house with my children . ’ |
| 11 | Which would have been doubly misleading for I had never felt more in search of company , nor indeed more indebted to Manhattan , the city without him being a great deal more like the city we had lived in together than anywhere else without him would have been . |
| 12 | Nothing that I later ate in a restaurant was as good as our dinner , the finale being a ‘ tender coconut ’ pudding , a dish I had never eaten anywhere in the tropics . |
| 13 | Verona was far away and I had never lived away from home ; besides , I was not sure that my parents had ever contemplated the possibility that I might do so . |
| 14 | I felt a little ashamed that I had never cared enough for any of my father 's relatives to give even a thought to their reactions to the prospect of an irregular addition to the family . |
| 15 | I then said that I had always looked forward to going to the Board of Education . |
| 16 | I had greatly looked forward to the meeting , hoping to hear words of wit and wisdom about the law , and perhaps a few good legal anecdotes . |
| 17 | Fear , real fear , is something I had only experienced once in my life , and that , strangely enough , was not on the round-the-world race , but in my own little boat , and in my own waters off Blakeney . |
| 18 | I had now turned right across the width of the mill where another staircase led up to the top floor . |
| 19 | Edwards said : ‘ The most I had ever scored before for Wigan was four tries — I never dreamt I 'd score ten . |
| 20 | And so nowadays , with the advent of high-speed telecommunications , satellites , and the formation of the World Met Organisation in particular , we now get the information that I 've already mentioned all over the world , very high-speed arrangements , and so we can now study the atmosphere all the way across . |
| 21 | I 've just come across from the factory ; it 's windy out . ’ |
| 22 | The route in question was at Swanage and not at all difficult — getting its HVS grade for the seriousness of the climbing and not its difficulty and I 've certainly done harder in the last month . |
| 23 | ‘ To signal like that was the smartest thing I 've ever come across in my life , and I 'll never forget it — ever . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ You 're the most damned temperamental person I 've ever come across in my life . ’ |
| 25 | I 've recently moved here from Heymouth ’ |
| 26 | I 've often come home from a job , or visiting so-called happily married friends , and thanked heaven fasting for my lot . |
| 27 | In the past I 've always stayed here at Lomond View , and that 's precisely what I intend to carry on doing ! ’ |
| 28 | I 've always worked hard on changing and refining my practice schedules and finding different ways to get better . |
| 29 | ‘ But I am allowed to say I was deeply disappointed , because he let things go on which I 've never seen before in my time back in England . |
| 30 | There were a couple of things that I 've never seen anywhere since , relics of Victorian engineering . |