Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 And that 's a bit like that erm the teaching skills that I had to do that time when I was on the course .
2 My billetors were kind , but I had to spend considerable time in their sitting-room , and I felt this was an invasion of privacy for both of us .
3 I HAD to spend some time comforting a distraught mother whose child was thought to have a behavioural problem .
4 I had noticed some time ago that the shoemaker had a beautiful daughter and the more I saw of her , the more I liked her . ’
5 I had discovered some time ago that he had loved Claudia Cohn-Casson .
6 It had been awkward for me to ask our family doctor to prescribe it : he knew my husband and I had parted some time ago .
7 This worried me because I could not make out what I had done this time to annoy her .
8 Greater Manchester West is my first choice , not Greater Manchester East , and when I looked at the vote in the last contest , back in nineteen eighty eight , when the erm then Alliance , or the ex-Alliance vote was split between the social erm liberal democrats as they were then , and the S D P , and saw the votes I had to beat this time , six thousand nine hundred , I thought I can look good next to that .
9 I think if I had had more time to myself when I first retired I would n't have made that mistake and would have looked for interests nearer home .
10 I had spent some time on a camping/cycling holiday with my family in the West country .
11 It was very different from when , during my student days , I had spent some time in the specialised wards of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases at St Pancras , where patients were treated for cholera , yellow fever , elephantiasis , malaria , leprosy , encephalitis lethargica , and a dozen other diseases that might have originated in the tropics .
12 During the course of this session , I repeatedly reminded her of the fact that she was seeing something which had happened some time ago and that time had proved her recovery to be complete — something which had been born out by the numerous examinations and X-rays she had since undergone .
13 Because of this she felt generous and said she had realised some time ago that a really beautiful man was very much more beautiful than the most beautiful woman , and was n't that interesting .
14 That he 'd noticed she 'd got a decent figure was to be expected , she supposed , seeing that the lace cotton blouse and culottes she had worn that time she 'd gone out to dinner with Travis had touched her contours comfortably .
15 She had lost precious time waiting for the nurse to leave .
16 She had spent some time after breakfast standing on her balcony and looking out towards the mountains .
17 She had to meet Rainald first , she had to gain some time for Edmund , she had to —
18 Mothers who had finished full time education before age 17 were more likely to have their membranes artificially ruptured before labour than more educated women ( 120/972 ( 12% ) v 33/422 ( 8% ) , p<0.05 ) .
19 There was no sign of the son , an undersized , sly creature who had spent more time in prison than out of it ever since he had been old enough to get himself down to the city and into trouble .
20 This showed that in practice relatively few , one in ten , of those who had spent any time in residential homes were thought to have been admitted ‘ too late ’ ; this proportion was a quarter for those who had not spent any time in a residential home .
21 Only one symptom , a persistent cough , was reported more often for those who had not been in a residential home — 24 per cent compared with 10 per cent of those who had spent some time in such a home .
22 Almost nine tenths , 88 per cent , of the people who had spent some time in a residential home were said to have had access to a telephone where they could make calls and people could telephone them .
23 Sylvia Hayes , an artist who had spent some time painting in Orkney , came from Oxford to show her support for the four families .
24 and then if you 'd been off sick at all you had to make that time up as well so it was about four years and six months I did there altogether .
25 Owen loved the bustle of the bazaars , of the whole native city , in fact ; but after you had spent some time in them , especially when it was as hot as this , you felt an overwhelming need for space and air , and after forcing their way through the blocked thoroughfares of the Tentmakers ' Bazaar they were glad to emerge into the more open streets .
26 But happen it 's for the best ; you had to know some time .
27 We had made good time and had to ease speed to avoid closing the island in darkness .
28 He says , I feel awful we were making plans that being the week to go out so they had trouble with wagon so we had to spend some time on wagon .
29 We had spent much time looking for the right place and seemed to have explored almost every corner of the country , from Devon to Cumberland , and had almost settled on a disused mill at Fisherton-de-la-Mare , near Amesbury .
30 He had , in fact , just left me on a bench in a nearby park where we had spent some time together before he decided to go for a stroll .
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