Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Moray and the north will always be his , and the rest would have joined them in time with no more than what he was offering : equal rule , equal justice , equal worship . |
| 2 | That young so-and-so might easily have got his Betty into trouble , if he had not caught them in time . |
| 3 | He had caught it in time . |
| 4 | Standing 16.3hh , Ambassador was given plenty of time to mature , only beginning his competitive career at the start of the current season , and testimony to his brilliance is the fact that he is only a couple of points away from being Advanced . |
| 5 | Lancashire were given plenty of time to reflect on a day of missed opportunities today , after heavy overnight rain delayed the start . |
| 6 | The person who sits on the dais in Ottawa or Canberra and goes through the motions of opening a Parliament is not and can not be the same being at all as the person who does these things and has done them from time immemorial at Westminster . |
| 7 | The killing of Polanski 's wife — who was in her last month of pregnancy and carrying a ‘ perfectly formed ’ baby son , also murdered — along with three friends and a totally unconnected young man of eighteen who had been visiting a caretaker living in the grounds , naturally caused Polanski extreme mental torture , made worse by the knowledge that he had promised to return to the house himself and had not made it in time . |
| 8 | As we moored up the late shipping forecast was giving warnings of south-easterly gales for the area , so we had just made it in time . |
| 9 | ‘ It might have saved lots of time if they did , but there you are . |
| 10 | One of the problems in your case is , we 've never really been able to Cos i i When we when we 've examined you from time to time , things come and gone . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've got nothing but time , ’ he smiled into her eyes . |
| 12 | Reputations are not changed overnight , but one of the most audacious goals of this or any other season can hardly hinder the rehabilitation of the young Arsenal striker , who has had plenty of time to repent at leisure past off-field indiscretions . |
| 13 | Edouard , who had had plenty of time to speculate , was still surprised by her arrival . |
| 14 | Since then we 've had plenty of time to take stock , to get to know areas and compare different locations , ages and styles of house before making any decision . |
| 15 | Devitrification is almost universal in ancient glasses which were usually badly made in the first place and have had plenty of time to crystallize ; the result , however is , often very beautiful , though these old glasses have become very weak . |
| 16 | They entered so late that Pitt had had plenty of time to prepare to attack them , and his expeditions captured Havana and Manila ; as a result Britain took the Spanish colony of Florida , an area with a loosely defined western frontier lying somewhere a little east of New Orleans . |
| 17 | " I 've had plenty of time to think of what I shall tell people . |
| 18 | He has had plenty of time . ’ |
| 19 | The laibon has had plenty of time to think about this ugly incident . |
| 20 | ‘ But do n't be rushed in to giving such a priceless collection away till you 've had plenty of time to think about it . |
| 21 | Camille herself — the Camille whom Camille was used to — merely noted exasperatedly that he seemed to have had plenty of time yesterday , sitting round in the cafe all morning . |
| 22 | I 've had plenty of time to prepare ! ’ |
| 23 | Thanks to this contraption ’ — he slapped the arm rest — ‘ I 've had plenty of time to cook up an outlandish conspiracy theory . |
| 24 | They had had plenty of time to make themselves familiar with Amy 's background . |
| 25 | I 've had plenty of time to work it all out , there 's not much else for me to do . |
| 26 | She had had plenty of time to mull things over and she was not too sure if there was n't some underlying reason for this trip to Spain that they had not been told about , or maybe Richie did n't know himself . |
| 27 | Though Louis had had plenty of time to gain experience of ruling and to form a court of his own in the subkingdom of Aquitaine ( he had been king there since the age of three ) , he had had to wait a long time for his father 's inheritance . |
| 28 | He 'd had plenty of time to speculate about who else would be in the car . |
| 29 | In fact she would have had plenty of time to shade in the circles in the last two letters . |
| 30 | In their eyes , the Chesters have had plenty of time to come up with solutions , and lacked the initiative . |