Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I see it 's late , I 'd forgotten the time . |
| 2 | She 'd forgotten the time difference . |
| 3 | I 'd been so busy I 'd had no time to think . |
| 4 | She 'd had no time to examine her reaction to this revelation any further , however , for he had proceeded to cut across her thoughts . |
| 5 | He had left suddenly while Rachel had been on leave and on her return she 'd been told that another officer had been appointed but she 'd had no time to find out anything about him . |
| 6 | The man checks my gun as if I 'd had the time and opportunity to fix the outcome , and then rather begrudgingly hands over a very full pair of red fake fur lips . |
| 7 | He ran his eye down the list , looking at the column in which he 'd noted the time of day for each killing . |
| 8 | He said our flight had been delayed and he 'd spent the time in the bar , and then added , rather unconvincingly , that some woman had insisted on ‘ plying Phaeton with liquor ’ as he put it , but there was a hollowness in the way he said it , and I do n't think either Gill or I believed him for a moment . |
| 9 | As far as she could remember they 'd spent the time discussing potential ideas for his proposed advertising campaign . |
| 10 | Without a lemon to squeeze on to fried or grilled fish , no lemon juice to sharpen the flatness of the dried pulses — the red lentils , the split peas — which in those days loomed so largely in our daily diet , no lemon juice to help out the stringy ewe-mutton and the ancient boiling fowls of the time , no lemon juice for pancakes , no peel to grate into cake mixtures and puddings , we felt frustrated every time we opened a cookery book or picked up a mixing bowl . |
| 11 | Kopyion 's refusal to answer any of his previous questions had irritated the Time Lord . |
| 12 | Her Honour Judge Marian Norrie-Walker , formerly Marian Jackson , who graduated with an LLB in 1961 , talked recently to MOYRA SUTCLIFFE about her unusual career path and how much she had enjoyed the time she spent at Nottingham . |
| 13 | She apologised of course ; I gathered she 'd been talking quilts with a fellow enthusiast and had forgotten the time . |
| 14 | She herself had forgotten the time when , long ago , she had slapped her governess 's face for rapping her fingers with a ruler . |
| 15 | We are therefore presented with a book which was not ‘ written in order … but like as the matter came to the creature in mind … for it was so long ere it was written that she had forgotten the time and the order when things befell ’ . |
| 16 | She had previously limited her expression of that disapproval to hints , and to glancing remarks ; now , clearly , she had decided the time had come to be more open . |
| 17 | Colonel Astor had bought The Times in 1922 specifically to keep it out of the clutches of Lloyd George , who was seeking a personal political base and had money to spend from his earlier sale of honours when Prime Minister . |
| 18 | She had thought the time had gone when thoughts of Jake could upset her . |
| 19 | His mother had had no time for him , and his father disapproved of him . |
| 20 | He had had no time to acquaint himself with his fief , twice seen , and well enough served by its own . |
| 21 | It was not fair to say that he– parents had had no time for her or for Joe ; all four of the family had worked together , and , as the settlement grew , they had enjoyed churchgoing and Easters and Christmases with their neighbours . |
| 22 | He had only been in the cellar for about one minute when the ghost appeared and he had had no time to doze . |
| 23 | The author recalls an able Treasury minister who , after resignation , became a convinced and cogent parliamentary reformer , explaining that as a minister he had had no time to work out this aspect of policy and therefore , since the Treasury was opposed to more specialist committees of the House of Commons , he used the brief they provided and he had been a formidable opponent of these reforms at the Cabinet Committee level . |
| 24 | He had had no time to confer with his client and only twelve hours to study the charges . |
| 25 | Prime Minister Jan Olszewski said that his newly-formed government had had no time to prepare its own budget , and asked parliament " with a heavy heart and a true sense of responsibility " to accept the measures before it . |
| 26 | The chairman was clearly annoyed at Maradona 's claim that he had had no time to notify him on Monday before returning to Argentina for the friendly against Denmark . |
| 27 | Ventris died before he had had the time to turn his attentions to Linear A , about which he is reported to have had some initial ideas . |
| 28 | But whatever the reason , whether it was that everyone had been so busy reassuring everyone that no one had bothered to talk to the crematorium , whether they had got the time wrong , or whether the vicar had simply had a brainstorm , he now , you could tell , was dimly aware that he had not given an exemplary performance . |
| 29 | At the end of the lawn there was a sundial ; they looked at it and it had got the time right . |
| 30 | Walsh departed , and although Coleridge later refused to see the ‘ Spy Nozy ’ incident as other than ridiculous , the government 's unwanted attentions had marked a time of real danger , as John Thelwall , from bitter recent experience , could have warned . |