Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | She was sitting back relaxedly and looking more contented than she had for some time . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | Feeling closer to him than she had at any time since her mother 's death , Rory hid her face against his shoulder . |
12 | However , she had by that time passed her eightieth birthday . |
13 | She had by that time , however , had a whole week in which to do quite a lot of thinking . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 ’ . |
16 | Oh we had it was the Airleys we had at that time . |
17 | 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 ? |
18 | 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 ’ . |
19 | Now when I tell you about lodging houses , we had four registered lodging houses in Ipswich that they had at that time . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | The issue of conscription was a particularly tender one for the union , for it had for some time been under pressure from the Admiralty over breaches of the obligation of seamen , nominally enforced by the Board of Trade , that sailors should be on board their ships on time and hence not delay sailings . |
22 | To such an end it had for some time been seeking to intensify contacts with both Tehran and Baghdad . |
23 | It had at one time been a larger crude producer than Saudi Arabia , with an output in 1964 of 2.3 million b/d against the Saudi 1.9 million b/d , only being overtaken in 1966 . |
24 | He had for some time , in the instinctive darkness of his mind in which so many heterogeneous problems were circulating , been wondering how , in what undramatic , as it were casual , not yet significant context he might utter them . |
25 | R. A. Butler , one of the Conservative Party 's chief spokesmen on foreign affairs , stated in the House of Commons on 27 February 1947 that he had for some time regarded Korea ‘ as perhaps the greatest danger spot for peace in the Far East ’ . |
26 | He had been able to join in mathematical discussion with the English he had at that time . |
27 | By taking my hand and giving signs , he had at one time wanted me to come to his house — an invitation no doubt to show his friendship . |
28 | I believe he had at one time worked with Cizek and he certainly knew of Tagore 's work and writing . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | There was Miss Sharon Hughes with whom the deceased had been very friendly and who , it is said , he had at one time wanted to marry . |