Example sentences of "[pron] had had time " in BNC.

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1 I turned my head away quickly , but I had had time to take in another feature — his rather sharp , small nose that looked as if it might have been broken in a boxing match .
2 I would have gladly done so , if I had had time .
3 It is true , these same trivial errors did cause me some anxiety at first , but once I had had time to diagnose them correctly as symptoms of nothing more than a straightforward staff shortage , I have refrained from giving them much thought .
4 ‘ No ; the police came to see me before I had had time to make other arrangements .
5 Besides , I had had time to pick up the late edition .
6 Williams showed that it would be much better to concentrate on attacking U-boats which could still be seen on the surface , with a depth-charge setting of 25 feet , and ignore those which had had time to submerge , because of the uncertainty in knowing their exact position .
7 Perhaps Rachel did too , or would do when she had had time to work it out .
8 As he saw her , he stretched out his arms and lifted her up before she had had time to reach the bottom step .
9 So now you 're imagining that he , whoever he is , popped this through the letterbox , waited till she had had time to read it , then rang the bell and invited her to take a stroll with him .
10 Now she had had time to get to know him better , see other sides of him as well .
11 But not yet — not until she had had time to rebuild her shattered defences .
12 Not until she had had time to explain that Oliver was only a little boy , that he had n't really understood …
13 Now that she had had time to think everything through on the long walk home , she had soon realised how ridiculous her accusations must have sounded .
14 There was a very affected couple , Erwin and Pam , who were expert at creaming off the best for themselves — and as they were in their mid-thirties , they had had time for some practice .
15 The books of Mary Somerville ( e.g. , On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences , 1834 ) proved valuable to men of science wanting to keep up with what was going on in other fields , and unable to understand it all even if they had had time to read it .
16 ‘ She arrived about seven thirty and they had had time enough to get to grips with their subject matter already , by all accounts . ’
17 Lancaster Gate awoke on Monday to find itself accused of doing nothing almost before it had had time to consider doing anything .
18 The ceiling and the walls in places were badly scorched , but structurally there had been very little damage and , luckily , the fire had been brought under control before it had had time to spread to other parts of the building .
19 When Hugo returned home dinner was served as soon as he had had time to change .
20 When he had had time to scan it , Hayman spoke again .
21 He had had time enough : Newton was right .
22 That seemed obvious now he had had time to think .
23 The only message some of them had had time to give their children as the social workers took them to waiting cars was ‘ have faith , be strong , we 'll do what we can ’ .
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