Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [vb pp] [indef pn] [prep] time " in BNC.

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1 It was too close to Christmas to bother about embarking on any sort of adult education before it , so I pacified Toby by saying I 'd got plenty of time and would look into it after the New Year , and we settled down to wallow in being together and getting into the Christmas spirit .
2 I had allowed plenty of time to return to the Commons to vote , but the train was one and a half hours late .
3 Because she had spent so much of her teenage by herself , she had found plenty of time to read the newspapers and the books Patsy would bring home from school , or take out for her from the school library .
4 She had had plenty of time to mull things over and she was not too sure if there was n't some underlying reason for this trip to Spain that they had not been told about , or maybe Richie did n't know himself .
5 They had had plenty of time to make themselves familiar with Amy 's background .
6 He 'd had plenty of time to speculate about who else would be in the car .
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