Example sentences of "he had [verb] [art] time " in BNC.
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1 | He had wasted no time , the body was almost warm as life , only no breath in him , so we let all alone until morning . |
2 | He had had no time to acquaint himself with his fief , twice seen , and well enough served by its own . |
3 | He had only been in the cellar for about one minute when the ghost appeared and he had had no time to doze . |
4 | The author recalls an able Treasury minister who , after resignation , became a convinced and cogent parliamentary reformer , explaining that as a minister he had had no time to work out this aspect of policy and therefore , since the Treasury was opposed to more specialist committees of the House of Commons , he used the brief they provided and he had been a formidable opponent of these reforms at the Cabinet Committee level . |
5 | He had had no time to confer with his client and only twelve hours to study the charges . |
6 | The chairman was clearly annoyed at Maradona 's claim that he had had no time to notify him on Monday before returning to Argentina for the friendly against Denmark . |
7 | Ventris died before he had had the time to turn his attentions to Linear A , about which he is reported to have had some initial ideas . |
8 | Though he 'd spoken with Klein daily there was no sign of a commission yet , so he had spent the time re-educating himself . |
9 | There was a current copy of the local rag lying on the chair beside him : he had read The Times and the Independent and now turned to the more microcosmic news . |