Example sentences of "had [verb] [pron] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had , lately , almost come to this point with Gildas , but had checked herself in time . |
| 2 | He had caught it in time . |
| 3 | So of course I , took me about half hour to find the forklift cos somebody had nicked it by time I went got the chemicals Robin comes down , he said oh do n't worry about he said do i do it tomorrow morning he said , they 'll be nobody about then can you go down the bot bottom and do the butterflies ? |
| 4 | Edouard , who had had plenty of time to speculate , was still surprised by her arrival . |
| 5 | They entered so late that Pitt had had plenty of time to prepare to attack them , and his expeditions captured Havana and Manila ; as a result Britain took the Spanish colony of Florida , an area with a loosely defined western frontier lying somewhere a little east of New Orleans . |
| 6 | They had had plenty of time to make themselves familiar with Amy 's background . |
| 7 | She had had plenty of time to mull things over and she was not too sure if there was n't some underlying reason for this trip to Spain that they had not been told about , or maybe Richie did n't know himself . |
| 8 | Though Louis had had plenty of time to gain experience of ruling and to form a court of his own in the subkingdom of Aquitaine ( he had been king there since the age of three ) , he had had to wait a long time for his father 's inheritance . |
| 9 | The warmth that Alain had shown her from time to time had quite gone now and she knew he would continue to be an enemy . |
| 10 | Because she had spent so much of her teenage by herself , she had found plenty of time to read the newspapers and the books Patsy would bring home from school , or take out for her from the school library . |
| 11 | I had allowed plenty of time to return to the Commons to vote , but the train was one and a half hours late . |
| 12 | Indeed the ex-editor of Classical Music contacted the publisher to ask why they had reverted to Times as the body copy typeface , he had changed it from Times to ITC Clearface , and was duly surprised to find that the reason was to do with the fact that the title was being produced on a desktop publishing system . |
| 13 | Eric and I had to restrain him at times when he wanted to do something like throw little Paul into the water to see if he 'd float , or like when he wanted to fell a tree over the railway line that goes through Porteneil , but as a rule we got on surprisingly well , even though it rankled to see Eric , who was the same age as Blyth , obviously in fear of him . |