Example sentences of "had [verb] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the poem of his that he most needed reassurance about was Homage to Sextus Propertius ( 1919 ) , and for that he had to wait a long time . |
| 2 | I had to wait a long time for an answer , and just before the door opened I nearly came sufficiently to my senses to run away , but sanity came too late . |
| 3 | I had to wait a long time shut in . |
| 4 | And I was a bit late , so I had to wait a long time to get served . ’ |
| 5 | She explained that with some people one had to wait a long time before one saw what one wanted to see . |
| 6 | We had to wait a long time because I had my mother to look after and she was rather difficult . ’ |
| 7 | The reins were in one piece ; no one had noticed the previous time , he 'd been able to make an extra hole and buckle them . |
| 8 | Even more so than he had done the previous time , I said did n't you hear this about this at the station meeting and he said it had n't been brought up . |
| 9 | He did refer to the fact that , if the trial proceeded , witnesses would be giving evidence about things that had occurred a long time ago and said that he did ‘ not think that is a position which is salvaged or saved by reason of the fact that there are in being notebooks , that there are in being witness statements . ’ |
| 10 | When we got home my mother asked if we had had a good time and Syl said with great enthusiasm that we had . |
| 11 | She had had a good time in her twenties : a good job as a doctor 's receptionist ( she had gone against the general rule for the species by being warm and sympathetic , though she stood no more nonsense than was inescapable ) . |
| 12 | Dave was in the property business , and had had a baddish time during the recession . |
| 13 | In the middle ages Margaret had had a wonderful time ; women had understood then that it was not to other mothers that you turn in childbirth , it is to those women who have lived it , who have been down between the dragon 's teeth , have travelled the dragons ' pathways and have lurked in the dark and boiling belly of pain , have been chewed and digested and emerged . |
| 14 | Clare looked incredibly fit and had had a wonderful time . |
| 15 | She had had a wonderful time and took an extra turn of the floor . |
| 16 | ‘ She said she had had a wonderful time and liked the people of Merseyside , so I hope this unfortunate incident does n't remain in her mind . ’ |
| 17 | He even embellished the story in a flood of fluent German , explaining that they had captured the British truck and had had a hard time of it at the front . |
| 18 | They must have been there because people only grew up like Tina when they had had a hard time as children . |
| 19 | Strawberry had had a bad time . |
| 20 | Anyone acting out of character worried her in this way , until she had had a silent time alone , to work it out and grow used to the change . |
| 21 | Sir Wilfrid had had a difficult time with the gardener 's cat and later with the gardener . |
| 22 | I was cast opposite him but I was nothing like the draw he was and we had had a dodgy time on tour . |
| 23 | He tried to remember that Fiver was under-sized and that they had had an anxious time and were all weary . |
| 24 | Sartori had disappeared a short time later . |
| 25 | Florence Ames was quieter about it , as though she had the measure of things because she had spent a long time in looking at them . |
| 26 | My informant ( who wishes to be anonymous but nevertheless truthful ) had spent a short time in his early days as a signalman at OA & GB Junction Signal box . |
| 27 | Both he and Amiss had spent a considerable time comforting Sunil , who had been throwing up on and off for over an hour . |
| 28 | Poor Martinho , almost his portly self again , had spent the whole time with at least one gun in his back . |
| 29 | Back in those hours I had remained a long time outside the door of North One , being filled by a sorrow so complete it overflowed , and I covered my ears not to hear any more . |
| 30 | As though all this had happened a long time ago . |