Example sentences of "[pron] had [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only comfort I had during this time was a farmer 's daughter in my class at school called Tina . |
| 2 | ‘ I had for some time been interested in the work of the 17th century Dutch and Spanish still-life school of painting . |
| 3 | My doctor had also prepared a report for the judge , about various medical problems which I hoped might be taken into consideration , along with the fact that I had for some time been re-building my life and now had very little to do with the lifestyle that brought me into contact with drugs . |
| 4 | I had at one time abandoned hope that the little book would ever be published , for the only copy , typed laboriously by myself , was stolen from a railway carriage on Delhi Station . |
| 5 | I had at that time , and I 'm trying to recall probably two or three people working directly for me , yes |
| 6 | You were n't of afraid of me but the accent that I had at that time . |
| 7 | I had by this time spent some years in the States , including a year living in an Anglican theological college , and had watched my friends become ordained . |
| 8 | I had by this time met the latter . |
| 9 | They came to the bank of the stream which had for some time been running unseen beside them . |
| 10 | We received a call from the hospital , which had by this time received the results of the X-rays . |
| 11 | She was sitting back relaxedly and looking more contented than she had for some time . |
| 12 | He recalled tales about her , that she had at one time belonged to a respectable family of farmers ; unbelievable now , for she could certainly no longer be placed in that category . |
| 13 | Feeling closer to him than she had at any time since her mother 's death , Rory hid her face against his shoulder . |
| 14 | However , she had by that time passed her eightieth birthday . |
| 15 | She had by that time , however , had a whole week in which to do quite a lot of thinking . |
| 16 | Jeremy Taylor , who had at one time been chaplain to Archbishop Laud , was no Calvinist . |
| 17 | Even nobles who had at one time covertly recommended such a union were alarmed by the unseemly haste , and realized that in any case the tide of national opinion was against the match . |
| 18 | He had at one time used the property as a guest house and a number of people , who had at one time or another resided in the guest house , had become friends of his . |
| 19 | This leads to a further conclusion that these wares were brought to the site by the Catuvellauni , who had at that time embarked on westward expansion . |
| 20 | Gervold , abbot of St Wandrille , who had for some time supervised the exaction of tolls at various Channel ports ( particularly Quentovic ) and established cordial relations with Offa , evidently mollified Charlemagne and a trade embargo was not maintained . |
| 21 | This lot have been brought into the barn for a rest , ’ indicating with his hand the others who had by this time fallen asleep , oblivious to the noise of the guns and the explosions very close to the barn . |
| 22 | So when we came to make the recording in Vienna I asked Strauss through a mutual friend we had at that time if I could use a fuller body of strings in the climaxes . |
| 23 | In fact , in this case the unit was out on a CDL trial with quite inadequate documentation — the only documentation we had at that time was such that we were frightened to show it to the teacher because we realized that it would ‘ finish him off ’ . |
| 24 | Oh we had it was the Airleys we had at that time . |
| 25 | But it 's on a hill in the , in the , in the , it 's a long way down from there to walk and , and if I remember rightly it was on the outside of the hotel , on a bank and that to me means that erm if we had had some weather , which we had at that time , then the roots could have suffered but the other clue I think is that erm it comes into leaf first and it drops its leaves first in the autumn so maybe it 's a different tree than the other , different variety , because there are several horse chestnuts are n't there ? |
| 26 | There had at one time , Agnes had told her , been a full complement of horses and hounds , for Sir John had been a keen sportsman . |
| 27 | There had for some time been complaints about the secular elements in Catholic church music , the exhibitionism of organists , the use of tropes , the obscuring of the sacred texts by polyphony , and so on . |
| 28 | On one occasion , when time had been scheduled in a departmental meeting for discussion of my questions , ten out of twelve members of staff present indicated that they had at one time or another received complaints from girls ( usually in the third or fourth year ) about the male bias of their overall literary ‘ diet ’ . |
| 29 | Now when I tell you about lodging houses , we had four registered lodging houses in Ipswich that they had at that time . |
| 30 | Even this severe shaking , however , failed to cause alarm amongst the local people ; they had by that time been living with the eruption for many weeks , and it is remarkable just to what extent familiarity of even something as exceptional as a volcanic eruption can breed contempt . |