Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adj] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The instruments sometimes steamed up , the revcounter failed altogether and the carpet in both footwells had come adrift by the time the car had reached the end of its test . |
| 2 | Swan had made half-a-million by the time he was thirty , he had chaired the Planning Committee of the Arden District Council for the past ten years , and he was not the sort to give in easily . |
| 3 | It seemed he had become confused over the time I 'd said I 'd pick him up , although it was always the same , and Miss Prescott thought he was a little agitated and so brought him round herself . |
| 4 | And , anyway , doing the band had become less of a time thing , more a psychological matter of getting down to writing . |
| 5 | Thus , two new launches had proved possible at a time when new dailies were generally still unpractical . |
| 6 | The Supreme Court could find no proof that Kopp had known this at the time she made the call . |
| 7 | Douglas had spent much of the time explaining to the table the intricacies of the plot of his next novel ; Leon Brittan had been rather short with him . |
| 8 | I had a vague impression of their father but he had spent most of the time with his head in his hands . |
| 9 | She had spent most of the time upstairs trying to look more than OK , and had despised herself all the while for even trying . |
| 10 | The search for Fedorov and Louise Müller , which had seemed all-important at the time , had been overtaken by weightier events . |
| 11 | For reasons which had seemed wise at the time , the Bar had not accepted that offer at that stage . |
| 12 | The number had seemed significant at the time : Lorton 's normal dose was two . |
| 13 | As Coleman had been at pains to point this out before taking on the DEA assignment , he could hardly disagree , but the risk had seemed acceptable at the time and he had taken particular care to underline his academic credentials whenever he met Hurley 's people . |
| 14 | It was perhaps no wonder that his ‘ quiet , nice ’ wife had hair that had gone white by the time she was thirty . |
| 15 | It had struck Dougal at the time that Lorton 's view of patriotism was more than old-fashioned : it was positively feudal , in that it depended on loyalty to a single person . |