Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd gone the last time , he reminded her , because of Lowell 's hands — well , partly . |
| 2 | He 'd realized a long time ago that he 'd married a woman who cuddled complete strangers in the street and probably had a season ticket for West Ham in her handbag . |
| 3 | He 'd spent a long time twisting bits of wire together and finding a safe way to steal electricity from the fusebox . |
| 4 | In fact , rather better than he 'd seemed the last time I 'd seen him . |
| 5 | Besides , he 'd learned a long time before that you can love a person without loving what they do . |
| 6 | So he decided to waste no more time , and thrust the trapdoor up and back with his shoulders . |
| 7 | They were the same colours-the same jewels — as those he had worn the first time they had met . |
| 8 | But the poem of his that he most needed reassurance about was Homage to Sextus Propertius ( 1919 ) , and for that he had to wait a long time . |
| 9 | For a split second he experienced that same numbing fear he had felt the first time he had come under enemy fire . |
| 10 | Tsu Ma knelt down and held his shoulders , nodding , remembering how he had felt the first time he had seen the ritual , not then knowing what was happening , nor why . |
| 11 | These hijras are very bad and very dirty ladies , ’ he had said the first time I tried to give Razia a lift in his car . |
| 12 | Even more so than he had done the previous time , I said did n't you hear this about this at the station meeting and he said it had n't been brought up . |
| 13 | It was Li Yuan 's horse ; the horse he had ridden the last time he had come . |
| 14 | Then , there was a description of the child 's functioning : he had taken a long time to settle into school , e.g. routine and order of the class . |
| 15 | When he was satisfied no fresh threat was about to manifest itself from the darkness , he moved off back the way he had come , retracing his steps until he reached the shallow stream he had leapt a short time before . |
| 16 | START number 13 proved unlucky for American skier A J Kitt , with the season 's first World Cup downhill at Val d'Isere abandoned due to bad weather after he had set the best time . |
| 17 | When he had tried a third time , the headmaster had made some slightly menacing remarks about brotherhood and commitment . |
| 18 | And if Jesus was around today he would be going to the places that you and I would think twice about going to , not because he wanted to have a good time , but because he wanted to relate to the people who were there . |