Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | As for her face , it was one I had seen countless times in buses and supermarkets , dole queues and pubs , waiting outside schools or factories , at all ages from fifteen to fifty . |
| 3 | I had fallen many times and could not control the wheelbarrow unless I was close enough for my legs to bang into it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I HAD to spend some time comforting a distraught mother whose child was thought to have a behavioural problem . |
| 6 | This was a vehicle with all mod cons at the rear of the bus , which I had followed many times and checked on its progress flying over the route ; oddly enough , on my last night in Mespot I was to sleep in the Imperial Airways rest fort at Rutbah Wells , I had refuelled there many times and had wondered with awe at the vast ugly route-flying Imperial aircraft — Handley Page HP42s — and even more so at the passengers who took an even greater interest in our tiny single-engined Wapiti aircraft , and furthermore asked endless questions about our aircraft and of our life in Baghdad . |
| 7 | I went through the drill that I had taught many times to my students , and with a little sideslip brought John 's creation back to earth . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | I had discovered some time ago that he had loved Claudia Cohn-Casson . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As I had done several times on the journey , since I had n't entirely managed to put out of my mind the events of Uulaa and my suspicions . |
| 12 | This worried me because I could not make out what I had done this time to annoy her . |
| 13 | He was a seriouslooking Welshman whom I had met several times back in England and around the orchard . |
| 14 | ‘ I had holidayed several times in France and was toying with the idea of buying a house there , but with no definite plan in mind . |
| 15 | I could n't go back to work although I had tried several times and socializing was no fun at all . |
| 16 | For example in B , I had tried several times without success to contact a third-year female physics student who , it seemed , never looked in her departmental pigeonhole where I left the notes . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I had spent some time on a camping/cycling holiday with my family in the West country . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She had lived many times on the edge of danger and she knew better than to sink back to sleep . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A man she had met three times . |
| 24 | As Shama talked , Hussa added a reminder here and there as though they were stories which she had heard many times before . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She had lost precious time waiting for the nurse to leave . |
| 27 | She had spent some time after breakfast standing on her balcony and looking out towards the mountains . |
| 28 | She had to meet Rainald first , she had to gain some time for Edmund , she had to — |
| 29 | And then you got You had to go three times a week ? |
| 30 | 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 . |