Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The PR lady had thankfully disappeared by the time we reached the Wigmore Street entrance to St Christopher 's Place , which was probably just as well . |
| 2 | If the goods had already perished at the time the contract was made , then section 6 is the appropriate section . |
| 3 | This bull did irreparable harm to the Catholic cause in England ; coming too late to assist the Northern rising , which had already collapsed by the time it was issued , in the long term it equated Catholicism closely with treason and made the recusant community the object of deepening fear and suspicion . |
| 4 | I made it clear on a number of occasions over recent years that there was , in retrospect , one change that I wish we had not made at the time , but it was one that was urged on us by right hon. Gentlemen opposite . |
| 5 | I believe it was on this ride that I sensed something I had not felt since the time I took my French classes in London : a sort of exhilarating separateness . |
| 6 | He also noted how photographs could contain details the photographer had not observed at the time that the lens was focused and the exposure was made . |
| 7 | He had not known at the time that they were officers of the law . |
| 8 | The rich and famous had not arrived by the time Rain Morgan did , although there were plenty of county folk poised to spot them . |
| 9 | And there was his behaviour since their father 's death : odd little things she had scarcely noticed at the time but now they began to acquire significance in her mind . |
| 10 | Well , for once a 25-year-old test with the fastest figures this magazine had ever produced at the time seems positively understated when you come face to face with the reality . |
| 11 | While it was vital to be well turned out , the young gallant should beware of imitating those fops who spent their time building huge and elaborate turbans : men like Mirza Abu Said , a great amir under Shah Jehan , who was so fastidious in the construction of his head-wraps that the Imperial Durbar had usually finished by the time he had finished tying it all together . |
| 12 | On the question of Poland , Lenin accepted much of Rosa Luxemburg 's case that circumstances had qualitatively changed since the time of Marx — ‘ the restoration of Poland , prior to the fall of capitalism , is highly improbable , but it can not be asserted that it is absolutely impossible ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ I had n't realised at the time how tough it was , ’ he admits . |
| 14 | They had n't moved with the times . |
| 15 | Yet , given time , he could roll back any given scene like a film and look at it again , stopping and starting the images at will , examining areas and details that he had n't noticed at the time . |
| 16 | And I remember , too , those I had n't eaten by the time I got home we hung on the tree . |
| 17 | The Firefly , owned by Jim Connell , of Gatley Drive , Maghull , had almost sunk by the time it had been towed in and hauled onto a slipway . |
| 18 | Hugh Puddephat , she discovered , had certainly moved with the times . |
| 19 | Judging from the evidence provided in these documents , it appears that Jacques had essentially retired by the time of his marriage in 1728 . |