Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I knew quite a bit about the war and the suffering of the peoples of Europe . |
| 32 | I knew quite a number of people who had gone into the Civil Service and it seemed a good thing to get into . ’ |
| 33 | To Phil he says : ‘ I saw quite a number of the men you 're doing when I was in London . |
| 34 | Every morning I read the news avidly , and in it I saw gradually a possibility of believing in something again … |
| 35 | Last week ( June 1993 ) I brought home a letter from my daughter . |
| 36 | Oh , yes , Luke whatever you might say , I gathered quite a lot of hard facts from Elise 's diaries . ’ |
| 37 | ‘ I acquired quite a taste for them in the States . ’ |
| 38 | I mean I would open my eyes and see myself like that , wake up and then I 'd bounce off the bed and then I 'd sit there bouncing and , and but I have n't had that in a long time and wh when I thought now a lot of times , if I think that I leave either the front door unlocked , my house unlocked or the garage door open I go and actually check that in the middle of the night . |
| 39 | And I thought perhaps a pull-out supplement in your Sunday Times with photos of your staff , products , showrooms , yachts you 've recently supplied and fitted with equipment . |
| 40 | I thought perhaps a video ? |
| 41 | I know I went quite a way down . |
| 42 | But I hesitated only a second before I accepted his gift excitedly . |
| 43 | I learned quite a lot about hydroelectric power ! |
| 44 | ‘ Yes , ’ she acknowledged reluctantly , lifting her small chin so that her fine hair fell away from her face , ‘ I did quite a bit . ’ |
| 45 | I did quite a lot on that single bed machine , even intarsia and then I saw a double bed advertised for £15 . |
| 46 | And then of course I , I did quite a lot of children 's nursing then , er but also general nursing as well , a bit o a bi some midwifery and er mainly ge general nursing . |
| 47 | And er to me it presented a great opportunity , I I j I won quite a lot of books . |
| 48 | I earned quite a lot of money by showing my Lilliputian animals to people , and in the end I sold them for a high price . |
| 49 | I earned quite a lot of money though so Oh I was in a really good mood , I woke up this morning in a really good mood , so I kind of danced into work |
| 50 | So I said well a couple approached my wife here on on Saturday . |
| 51 | He just asked me what we needed and I said well a table . |
| 52 | I said well a lot of them are leaving today . |
| 53 | So I said well a lot of it 's an attitude . |
| 54 | I said Just a minute but We 've had a Mrs . |
| 55 | But I said too a man of sorts , for the acknowledgement now includes crippled masculinity , and with that Joyce is free to embody and enact a different fear hinted at before in , for example , The Dead , but masked by the victim 's status of the woman thrust on so cruelly by the culture . |
| 56 | I had rather a dread of this post 's conveyance for it was only a spring cart , and I thought I felt myself being bumped , but as it was I enjoyed this nine miles in the post gig better than all the drives I had had . |
| 57 | ‘ Well , ’ said the young man modestly , ‘ I suppose I had quite a reputation . |
| 58 | In my dream I was overwhelmed by grief ; it woke me , and I had quite a difficulty in getting the horror out of my system . |
| 59 | Cos , in case there was a mistake and on one side and I , and I had quite a number of things accumulate in that way you know . |
| 60 | I did water-colours mostly but I 'd just started painting in oils and felt I had quite a talent for it , but they were n't very encouraging … |