Example sentences of "time [pers pn] had [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How many times she had felt a lift of excitement when she saw that sign and knew that Riverstown was only ten minutes away . |
| 2 | By this time I had developed a gut feeling for the topography of the island . |
| 3 | For just a short time I had become a part of the village community on a day that ‘ introduces everybody to everybody else ’ . |
| 4 | It was the first time I had seen a ship built from scratch and it was quite an experience to watch the steel plates being cut by their ingenious machine which controlled a cutter as it drew our the required shapes direct from the blueprint , converting everything to full scale as it cut . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ The only other time I had to deliver a baby was during my time in the Army . |
| 6 | For some time I had nourished a wish to write a war memoir , and after a while , and with the approach of the fifteenth anniversary of the start of the war , the desire became urgent . |
| 7 | At one time I had bought a chalet just outside Interlaken . |
| 8 | In 1794 she published her Collection of Poems and Fables , by which time she had suffered a number of domestic calamities , including the death of a child and apparently the imprisonment of her husband . |
| 9 | But by that time she had married a car-worker from Cowley , was four months ' pregnant , and was eventually to become the mother of four lovely children — three girls and one boy . |
| 10 | It was like the time she had thrown a cheque for one hundred and twenty pounds into the fire one Christmas , thinking the envelope was empty , though luckily it had been a present from her godfather , and he had good-naturedly written her another . |
| 11 | Visits supervisor Jenny Wallace said of the group : ‘ This was the first time we had welcomed a party from the Salvation Army . |
| 12 | For a long time they had led a life of measured grace ; regular sedate walks with their mistress , superb food in ample quantities and long snoring sessions on the rugs and armchairs . |
| 13 | By this time they had purchased a building which had been I think a a bank or a savings bank or something at Street in Porthmadog . |
| 14 | The population of England and Wales had grown steadily in the centuries up to about 1300 , by which time it had exceeded a level which could easily be sustained by contemporary food production . |
| 15 | The Committee reported in December 1942 , by which time it had become a part of the larger Cabinet Committee on Reconstruction problems . |
| 16 | Its first public letter to the Scotsman referred to " clerical work " or supervisory jobs as being the best area to concentrate on , but within a short time it had established a register for women 's employment of a wider kind . |
| 17 | It was the red-haired left-hander 's first win over the squash legend , the first time he had played a match lasting an hour and 50 minutes at this level and won , and the first time he can ever have gambled so audaciously as he did at 13-13 in the final game . |
| 18 | Another time he had seen a tourist , a non-English speaker , make the discovery that his wallet had been taken , with his passport and everything he had . |
| 19 | It was the first time he had loved a carpet , and now he found himself looking at carpets in shop windows . |
| 20 | At the same time he had sensed a tremor of — he did not know what . |
| 21 | It was the first time he had conceded a game since building the device three years earlier . |
| 22 | It was the first time he had brought a girl home and both he and Janine were nervous . |
| 23 | He felt as he had in Oxford , the first time he had taken a girl out with a packet of French letters in his wallet . |
| 24 | I watched , fascinated , for this was the first time he had confronted a murderer with a plausible explanation but very little proof . |
| 25 | Regular correspondence with the revered minimalist La Monte Young introduced him to the Dadaist movement Fluxus , but by the time he had won a Leonard Bernstein scholarship to the Berkshire School of Music in Massachusetts , ‘ I felt I 'd run my course as far as the avant-garde was concerned ’ . |