Example sentences of "had [verb] [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly , she knew that her aunt 's news had come at the perfect time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Aunt Fosters had died at the right time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ They made me feel like … some species that had got into the wrong time slot . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She was unusually alert , for her health had deteriorated in the brief time since the upset of Theda 's near-dismissal . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |