Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rain was impressed by the amount of information he had gathered in a short time . |
| 2 | And I realised , well I had realised for a long time that dieting was n't the answer for me . |
| 3 | Then he had gone , and the Curator had stared for a long time after him , and then at the golden eagle who stared blankly back at him . |
| 4 | The low fertility families in social class III had courted for a long time , decided carefully about marriage , moved house seldom , and tended to be upwardly mobile in their jobs . |
| 5 | Suddenly , she knew that her aunt 's news had come at the perfect time . |
| 6 | Conchis was no more than the chance agent , the event that had come at the right time ; just as in the old days I might , after a celibate term at Oxford , have met a girl and begun an affaire with her , I had begun something exciting with him . |
| 7 | Everyone had come for a good time , and they did not want it spoiling by some wildmen . |
| 8 | An enormous boxer hurled himself on me in delight , clawing at my chest with the biggest , horniest feet I had seen for a long time . |
| 9 | At first he felt more relaxed than he had done for a long time . |
| 10 | Among the most dangerous was the Chaplain of the Repubblichini , a Catholic priest whom everybody had suspected for a long time . |
| 11 | After all , she had suspected for a long time now that he was aware of the effect he sometimes had on her . |
| 12 | Scientists on both sides of the Atlantic have said that the so-called ‘ Concorde ’ trial confirms what many had felt for a long time , namely that AZT taken on its own is likely to be limited in delaying the onset of AIDS . |
| 13 | Aunt Fosters had died at the right time . |
| 14 | If the verderers ( or their heirs , if the verderers had died in the mean time ) failed to present their rolls to the judges on the first day of the Forest Eyre , or if their rolls were deficient in any material particular , they were liable to amercement . |
| 15 | Many offenders had died in the mean time , and the sheriff failed to produce others , so that the sessions were adjourned time and time again during the next few years . |
| 16 | Balcon was the sort of producer the British film industry had needed for a long time . |
| 17 | ‘ They made me feel like … some species that had got into the wrong time slot . |
| 18 | Gould found he ‘ had arrived at a good time , the birds having just commenced breeding ’ , and was immediately off to resume his researches with Natty and Jemmy in the cedar brushes of the Liverpool Range and on the nearby stretches of the Dart Brook . |
| 19 | I sat in the armchair and was entertained by the funniest and most unorthodox brand of humour I had experienced in the short time in which I had graced the Earth with my presence . |
| 20 | He had driven to Roker in Sunderland and had walked for a long time on the beach , contemplating suicide , but had driven back to his son 's home . |
| 21 | She was unusually alert , for her health had deteriorated in the brief time since the upset of Theda 's near-dismissal . |
| 22 | His training had benefited from the extra time , he was assured by any superior who could spare the energy to talk to him , and indeed he was an expert radio operator and cipherist , who could also — in theory — kill , survive , and use a parachute . |
| 23 | She had known for a long time now . |
| 24 | He had known for a long time , but had refused to admit it to himself . |
| 25 | at last the confirmation of something he had known for a long time . |
| 26 | In most of the other colonies , Europeans had ruled for a long time . |
| 27 | It seemed to Tallis that she had smouldered for a long time before finally the fire had taken hold . |
| 28 | All she wanted to do was yield to it , because it was what she had wanted for the whole time she had been with him . |
| 29 | By 1984 , it had crystallized into a firm time control on the police power to detain without charge . |
| 30 | I was afraid Richard would mind , but , as it turned out , my election had happened at a convenient time . |