Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She had lost precious time waiting for the nurse to leave . |
| 3 | We had made good time and had to ease speed to avoid closing the island in darkness . |
| 4 | They had made good time . |
| 5 | I would n't have changed places with my father 's new children who , although they were five and seven , still seemed to smell of damp nappies and regurgitated milk , but I used sometimes to wonder what I would have been like if he had devoted similar time to me and not left me entirely to the women . |