Example sentences of "have [vb pp] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | Girls often had gifts like that , Rosalind Swain had said at the time , especially in adolescence . |
| 32 | that 's right , erm she had said at the time when they had raised all this money that er mostly gon na be spent on erm |
| 33 | Would he have flung the bitter allegations and repeated the damning indictment of her which he had made at the time of Simon 's death ? |
| 34 | She had felt at the time that he was ‘ pretty borderline for special school ’ . |
| 35 | My father had been embarrassed when my mother or I had wept at the time of his leaving . |
| 36 | I had thought at the time , wrote Goldberg , turning the page , wiping his brow , taking a sip of orange juice from the glass on the desk beside him , dreaming for a moment of the cigarettes he had given up two years earlier , I had thought , he wrote , that an edited version of the text , with only those comments directly concerned with the Big Glass included , would serve you best . |
| 37 | I had thought at the time she had been referring to an officer on some survey vessel , the British Antarctic Survey 's supply ship perhaps , or else a pelagic fisherman or whaler , even an Antarctic explorer . |
| 38 | Kopp testified that she had thought at the time that the information was based on " rumours from banking circles " . |
| 39 | The crash had occurred at a time of clear visibility and good weather conditions . |
| 40 | In 1927 Welford Beaton was left in no doubt that the motion picture was ‘ a throbbing , living , human thing ’ after Janet Gaynor 's performance in Frank Borzage 's Seventh Heaven and especially by her grief as her husband left for the war ; Beaton had cried at the time and even as he wrote the spell was not broken . |
| 41 | He had laughed at the time , but the way his stomach was behaving now , he began to fear they had not been jesting . |
| 42 | They were slightly embarrassed that he had been left out , but had agreed at the time that there was no sense in phoning him at home because he would have nothing useful to say . |
| 43 | The issue , which had allowed successive governments to mobilize national sentiment , had surfaced at a time when Serrano 's popularity ratings were at an all-time low . |
| 44 | We do not know precisely what stage the likelihood of significant harm had reached at the time when Thorpe J. gave his judgment on 12 May 1992 , but , he spoke of the need to strike |
| 45 | He had skilfully evaded Margie 's questions , moving on to talk instead about Kurt Eklund , the financial genius he had hired after Greg 's death to help him avoid what had seemed at the time almost certain ruin . |
| 46 | It was strange ; everything he had done on the programme had seemed at the time to be imbued with an exact sense of logic and purposiveness , but now that he looked back on it , all the logical connections had disappeared , like secret writing when the special lamp is taken away . |
| 47 | Maybe , if she had been a little older or more sophisticated , she might have been able to cope with what had seemed at the time to be a never-ending series of disasters . |
| 48 | The murderer thought about it , still finding it almost as amusing as it had seemed at the time ; the murderer 's sense of humour was childlike , adolescent at the best , but secretive . |
| 49 | Despite what had happened between them , because it had been what she had wanted at the time and because Rune had been a generous and not over-demanding lover , and because she loved him , her own sense of self-esteem had remained whole . |
| 50 | It had happened at a time when all I had to offer him was absolute misery for both of us . |
| 51 | About 80% had always had an off-farm job and of the others most had started at a time of extra financial pressure on the farm , for example low prices for produce , loss due to weather or stock health problems . |
| 52 | They contained no nasty surprises , since the board had warned at the time of the Evode bid that profits would fall to £86 million . |
| 53 | Blake had tried to advise him to relax , and when that had n't worked had shouted at the Time Lord . |
| 54 | They have come at a time of unprecedented pressure on the government to speed up the introduction of a secure unit . |
| 55 | ITN 's cash problems have come at a time when news is more in demand than ever |
| 56 | We are naturally disappointed that substantial catastrophe losses have come at a time when the pace of our underlying recovery is accelerating , but we are confident that the improvement in our performance is soundly based and will continue to show through as strong management action proves increasingly effective . ’ |
| 57 | ‘ Where there is a contract for the sale of specific goods , and the goods without the knowledge of the seller have perished at the time when the contract is made , the contract is void . ’ |
| 58 | You have appeared at a time when things are rather … odd . |
| 59 | Already a variety of vendors are attempting to create user interfaces which go beyond GUIs , but not have appeared at the time of writing in 1990 . |
| 60 | Well well actual fact , unless it 's done , the security 's fitted at the time of manufacture you can actually serious damage the framing . |