Example sentences of "had [prep] [art] time [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 If Country Jacobitism had for a time in the early 1690s represented an alliance of disillusioned Whigs and Tories , it nevertheless ended up as a platform which drew support almost exclusively from Tories .
2 As a middle-aged bishop he was reluctant to believe that miracles still happened in his world as they had in the time of the Lord and his apostles .
3 We have even 1,500,000 fewer children than we had at the time of the Boer War … .
4 Since neither [ defendant ] had at the time of the removal of the goods from the shelves and of the label switching assumed all the rights of the owner , there was no appropriation and therefore no theft .
5 Despite the terror which as a result of his ruthlessness , cruelty and ungovernable rages his name evoked , he had by the time of the British invasion lost effective control of his country except around his mountain fortress of Magdala .
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