Example sentences of "had [verb] [pron] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peggy was aware that many of her sayings were threadbare , she had heard them many times before , but as the comedian said , it was n't what as said , it was the way it was told . |
| 2 | They had heard it some time before they reached it , the rumble of thunder growing louder as they approached , to become almost deafening at the point where a cloud of spray hovered overhead , the droplets becoming tiny rainbows as they caught the sun . |
| 3 | She did n't know if they had given themselves sufficient time to think things over before they married — that was the kind of question her sister Louise asked . |
| 4 | He tried to hide the crease of worry on his features , but when she asked him whether the debtors had given him extra time he frowned and shook his head . |
| 5 | Her blue skirt and jacket made her eyes look like azure pools , and she had given herself extra time to wash her hair , which now framed her face with tendrils of spun gold . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ He had to see me this time because I had a clue for him . ’ |
| 7 | In fact , Mum had reprimanded me many times for being Sam 's lap-dog , saying that I was too much under my brother 's rotten influence . |
| 8 | I had asked the plumber to come and had reminded him several times and no doubt he would come in the end . |
| 9 | Susan had met her several times , and had always said she 'd like to know her better . |
| 10 | ‘ If he had stabbed someone 17 times less than an hour before , which I do n't believe he did , he certainly showed not the slightest emotion . ’ |
| 11 | I had noticed it several times since I left the Monogram Building . |
| 12 | And before that , she had seen him several times . |
| 13 | The ticket collector had seen it many times and would see it many times more before the railways returned to normal . |
| 14 | Although he had done it countless times before there was always a risk involved , especially since the introduction of guard dogs trained to sniff out illegal stowaways like himself . |
| 15 | He had done it many times before . |
| 16 | By the time she had done it several times , and copied out the postscript , and redone the drawing , it sounded false to her and she lost her nerve completely . |
| 17 | ‘ If you go for a soldier ’ — she had said it fifty times — it will stop us getting wed . |
| 18 | He had said it several times before and we had stopped believing him . |
| 19 | She had visited us many times over a nu number of years and said it was our turn to visit her and we just laughed . |
| 20 | She recognised the gun as one her ex-lover had bought her some time before as a form of self-protection , the court heard . |
| 21 | The Americans had bought him some time by offering refuge to Colonel Rebu and two other colonels . |
| 22 | William Connors had briefed him many times in the past , yet Delaney even now , was unsure of just where Connors fitted into the scheme of things . |
| 23 | Celia served the cold cucumber soup hot , and burnt the steak even though Christina had told her numerous times that Stephen liked his steak rare . |
| 24 | Emma had told her several times she did not wish to be repaid . |
| 25 | If anybody had told me this time last year that we 'd find another pyramid at Giza , I 'd have said they were crazy ’ . |
| 26 | She thought now of her daughter-in-law as she had watched her many times , standing motionless in front of the glass in the hall . |
| 27 | His name was Reldresal , and he had helped me many times since I had arrived in Lilliput . |
| 28 | But look where that had got him last time . |
| 29 | ‘ Monsieur Tollet at the sports centre had to leave me several times to deal with queries . ’ |
| 30 | Fry feared the worst when he arrived for training yesterday morning to find his wife had called him three times already . |