Example sentences of "had [verb] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | These repairs had to wait until the time of Haymo of Hythe , or as he was to be known as Haymo of Hythe . |
| 2 | ‘ We think the drain cover must have been removed by accident by a farm machine and no-one had realised at the time , ’ |
| 3 | Headhunting in Britain was imposed — seeming alien at first — in the search for remedies for Britain 's national corporate ills ; in America it had burgeoned at a time of growth and prosperity . |
| 4 | He went yet again in 1801 , by then she had altered from the time when she had ‘ full eyes , vermillion lips , and cheeks like lillies ’ to a ‘ bulky wife of a farmer , blessed with much good humour and a ready utterance . ’ |
| 5 | Night had fallen by the time we reached the centre of Barcelona . |
| 6 | Unless Andrew was lying , she knew from his own lips that the evidence had vanished by the time he arrived at rue Roland . |
| 7 | ‘ I said I had come to the time I knew myself . |
| 8 | Through Hoskyns he had come for the time under the influence of the leader of anti-rational European theology , Karl Barth , who at this moment was back in Basle after being expelled from Germany by the Nazis . |
| 9 | Although the Supreme Court had ruled that amendments should be ratified within a reasonable period in order to reflect a contemporaneous consensus — the time limit most usually accepted was seven years — no such restriction had applied at the time when the amendment was first sent to the states for consideration . |
| 10 | Baldwin , following the conclusion of certain pacts with Philip Augustus , sought to extricate himself from the possible threat of excommunication and interdict on his lands which he had accepted at the time of the agreement if certain conditions were not fulfilled . |
| 11 | But what really made the difference was that I got engaged to a girl called Jane Wilde , whom I had met about the time I was diagnosed with ALS . |
| 12 | Their prosecutors at the trial of the politburo took pleasure in revealing how many cartons of Western cigarettes each of the defendants had possessed at the time of the revolution . |
| 13 | A month later , during investigations made by 5 Corps after the repatriations were over ( see Chapter Eleven ) , statements were taken from a number of officers in the Durham Light Infantry and 46 Recce Regiment , describing what they had seen at the time . |
| 14 | This must also have secured for Oswiu an important diplomatic contact with the Kentish court of King Eorcenberht ( 640–64 ) , son of Eadbald , and re-established the former relationship which had prevailed in the time of Eadwine and Eadbald . |
| 15 | Girls often had gifts like that , Rosalind Swain had said at the time , especially in adolescence . |
| 16 | that 's right , erm she had said at the time when they had raised all this money that er mostly gon na be spent on erm |
| 17 | Would he have flung the bitter allegations and repeated the damning indictment of her which he had made at the time of Simon 's death ? |
| 18 | By 1372 England had suffered a naval defeat at La Rochelle and lost most of the gains which it had made by the time of the treaty of Brétigny ; in the following year much of Brittany was lost ; in 1375 another spectacular naval defeat was suffered ; and in 1376 and 1377 the south and east coasts of England were alerted under threats of invasion or raids . |
| 19 | Just before this a number of leading members of that church had written to The Times declaring their disbelief in the Devil . |
| 20 | She had felt at the time that he was ‘ pretty borderline for special school ’ . |
| 21 | My father had been embarrassed when my mother or I had wept at the time of his leaving . |
| 22 | It was the first step , she believed , in the direction of marriage , for Mrs Darne — necessarily with a daughter like Tina — had moved with the times . |
| 23 | Cos it had moved by the time we got there . |
| 24 | Charles offered himself as a donor and sat with his arm ready bared to give blood , but the unfortunate patient had died by the time the messenger returned . |
| 25 | the plaintiff had died by the time of the hearing . |
| 26 | What the plaintiff was told is not clear , as the surgeon had died by the time of the trial . |
| 27 | I had thought at the time , wrote Goldberg , turning the page , wiping his brow , taking a sip of orange juice from the glass on the desk beside him , dreaming for a moment of the cigarettes he had given up two years earlier , I had thought , he wrote , that an edited version of the text , with only those comments directly concerned with the Big Glass included , would serve you best . |
| 28 | I had thought at the time she had been referring to an officer on some survey vessel , the British Antarctic Survey 's supply ship perhaps , or else a pelagic fisherman or whaler , even an Antarctic explorer . |
| 29 | Kopp testified that she had thought at the time that the information was based on " rumours from banking circles " . |
| 30 | The crash had occurred at a time of clear visibility and good weather conditions . |