Example sentences of "had [verb] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two groups returned safely to Jalo , where they had to wait some time for news of Jock Lewes and Bill Fraser . |
| 2 | There they had to wait some time until the Constable could find the key and lock the door on them . |
| 3 | Because of this she felt generous and said she had realised some time ago that a really beautiful man was very much more beautiful than the most beautiful woman , and was n't that interesting . |
| 4 | He had realised some time before that he was becoming more and more attracted to her . |
| 5 | It had been awkward for me to ask our family doctor to prescribe it : he knew my husband and I had parted some time ago . |
| 6 | ‘ Look , it had to come some time , you know . |
| 7 | But happen it 's for the best ; you had to know some time . |
| 8 | The travellers knew some of the stories , for Tara had met many Time Travellers , and the tales had echoed back . |
| 9 | The price of cobalt soared and the industry suddenly had to pour much time and money into redesigning the magnets in loudspeakers , using less expensive ceramic materials instead of cobalt . |
| 10 | ‘ I had noticed some time ago that the shoemaker had a beautiful daughter and the more I saw of her , the more I liked her . ’ |
| 11 | Her time would come , but he had to choose that time . |
| 12 | Do n't think about it , just get up , like Uncle Jamie had done that time out hunting , broken arm and all . |
| 13 | This worried me because I could not make out what I had done this time to annoy her . |
| 14 | They had made good time . |
| 15 | We had made good time and had to ease speed to avoid closing the island in darkness . |
| 16 | The boy repeated none of the simple errors he had made first time round . |
| 17 | The smart money had moved some time earlier , becoming cash or commodities , anything that could survive the flash-fire of a market crash . |
| 18 | He had bought some time for himself by refusing to answer any questions till he had heard the tape . |
| 19 | His first wife , Molly 's mother , had died some time before , and the girl kept the cottage clean and sweet until marriage to Ben Curdle removed her . |
| 20 | A.A. rang me at 4 o/c she returned on 2nd and had had grand time with Gwenda and families . |
| 21 | So great had his concentration been on finishing the maps that Green had had little time to do anything else in those difficult years excepting for a brief visit to Buttermere in 1791 , and in 1793 he went to Wales and the Lake District with his stalwart helper Thornton ; but in 1794 he revisited Cumberland for twelve weeks two of which were devoted to Buttermere . |
| 22 | Pearn and I were very concerned to ensure that the troops who would liberate Burma should know something of the country and its people , for the army that fought the retreat in 1942 had had little time to learn any of the background . |
| 23 | They had had little time to socialise and some had lost contacts with friends and neighbours as a direct result of being in full-time employment . |
| 24 | And more often than not , out of the sun would come the yellow-nosed Messerschmitts , long before our fighters had had sufficient time in which to gain their best operational height . |
| 25 | Perhaps the shock is severe enough to catapult the person into feeling all the pain and extremity of loss that their defences might not have let them do if they had had more time to get organized . |
| 26 | I think if I had had more time to myself when I first retired I would n't have made that mistake and would have looked for interests nearer home . |
| 27 | Following further approaches from my hon. Friend , a direction was issued to South Glamorgan county council on 11 December requiring it not to approve the proposal until the Secretary of State had had more time to consider whether to call in the matter for his own determination . |
| 28 | And that 's a bit like that erm the teaching skills that I had to do that time when I was on the course . |
| 29 | had to put some time for |
| 30 | That he 'd noticed she 'd got a decent figure was to be expected , she supposed , seeing that the lace cotton blouse and culottes she had worn that time she 'd gone out to dinner with Travis had touched her contours comfortably . |