Example sentences of "[pron] had [prep] [adj] time [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only comfort I had during this time was a farmer 's daughter in my class at school called Tina . |
| 2 | ‘ I had for some time been interested in the work of the 17th century Dutch and Spanish still-life school of painting . |
| 3 | My doctor had also prepared a report for the judge , about various medical problems which I hoped might be taken into consideration , along with the fact that I had for some time been re-building my life and now had very little to do with the lifestyle that brought me into contact with drugs . |
| 4 | They came to the bank of the stream which had for some time been running unseen beside them . |
| 5 | Jeremy Taylor , who had at one time been chaplain to Archbishop Laud , was no Calvinist . |
| 6 | In fact , in this case the unit was out on a CDL trial with quite inadequate documentation — the only documentation we had at that time was such that we were frightened to show it to the teacher because we realized that it would ‘ finish him off ’ . |
| 7 | There had for some time been complaints about the secular elements in Catholic church music , the exhibitionism of organists , the use of tropes , the obscuring of the sacred texts by polyphony , and so on . |
| 8 | Even this severe shaking , however , failed to cause alarm amongst the local people ; they had by that time been living with the eruption for many weeks , and it is remarkable just to what extent familiarity of even something as exceptional as a volcanic eruption can breed contempt . |
| 9 | The issue of conscription was a particularly tender one for the union , for it had for some time been under pressure from the Admiralty over breaches of the obligation of seamen , nominally enforced by the Board of Trade , that sailors should be on board their ships on time and hence not delay sailings . |
| 10 | To such an end it had for some time been seeking to intensify contacts with both Tehran and Baghdad . |
| 11 | It had at one time been a larger crude producer than Saudi Arabia , with an output in 1964 of 2.3 million b/d against the Saudi 1.9 million b/d , only being overtaken in 1966 . |
| 12 | He had by this time been child factory worker , apprentice framework knitter and short-term seaman , so his reaction is significant . |
| 13 | Similar letters were addressed to A and to the company , neither of whom had at that time been charged with any offence under the Act . |
| 14 | A further survey of men in the Camberwell Reception Centre one night in 1965 found that a quarter of them had at one time been in mental hospitals and a further quarter were heavily dependent on alcohol . |