Example sentences of "had [verb] [adj] [art] time " in BNC.

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1 He had to find all the time he could to write the play , even if it meant neglecting other matters , not least because it would be his first composition since the award of the Nobel Prize .
2 Bourke had to do this every time he spoke with Blake up to the time of the escape in October .
3 She had tried to explain this feeling to Gay and Felicity , when they had come out of the Jade Cockatoo on their last night together ; but she had known all the time that it was n't a thing that could be explained .
4 Maxine told me that she had known all the time that she was her twentieth-century self and that she was sitting in a comfortable chair in my consulting room .
5 ‘ I felt ill and had to rest all the time , ’ says Odette .
6 They had quarrelled all the time and his mum had slammed out and left all the washing-up in the sink which he and Gary had to do when they ran out of plates .
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