Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I stopped going there a season ago too difficult to get a drink .
2 if I 'd got here a minute quicker I 'd got you some chocolate biscuits you could of been having with that cup of tea
3 I 'd spent quite a bit of time then visiting district nurses and accident and emergency departments which gave me a real insight into the health service and an understanding of the commitment there was around , ’ Cruickshank said .
4 I began to feel more a part of this vast foundation of the great Halton Experiment .
5 Against the advice given me at the Centre , quite deliberately I decided to have neither a counsellor nor a healer .
6 I started fishkeeping almost a year ago and I have a 3ft community tank , which is filtered by a Fluval 203 external filter .
7 They did yoga-based classes quite near me so I started going once a week .
8 I managed to get away a touch early , ’ the endocrine specialist said as the car slid out of the parking bay and into the main driveway , then wound through the open , grassy grounds to join an arterial road that ran along the winding Brisbane River .
9 Like you go , even saying I did serve quite a bit faster than her , which I do like , you know she still should o i if the bar done seven fifty she should have , she should have done what two , three and a half ?
10 Of course I did study quite a bit of Chopin in my early years , and there was a brief ‘ middle period ’ during which I played one recital in Vienna consisting entirely of Chopin Polonaises and Liszt Rhapsodies !
11 I only looked , I did take quickly a look at them but , you know I thought oh I ai n't got I did n't really have time to mess about for long you know .
12 One way or another , I had drunk quite a bit this evening , but I did n't need to powder my nose .
13 Well yes I had to spend quite a lot of time on the line to her because er her husband 's been quite ill with bladder trouble .
14 ‘ I 've got pretty good hearing but I had to wait almost a moment before I could imagine I could hear anything .
15 Sorry Chief Administrator Officer and I had to provide quite a lot of statistical information which I 'd never done before but nevertheless I , I made a fairly reasonable job of it , I had an assistant and erm I , I think I got fairly well known amongst the councillors and people who mattered and then went .
16 One year I had worked nearly a month flat out , every day without a waking hour to myself .
17 I had come home a day early .
18 I read the rest of the story ; the gist of it was I had idled away a year on full pay and what was the Government going to do about it ?
19 I had had quite a grounding in this at the City Temple .
20 So the decision was made for me , you see , it was only afterwards that I saw I had taken quite a step — a leap in the dark , in fact .
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