Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | A German Ambassador once remarked to the author at a conference that he had referred several times to his constituents , ‘ whereas we in Germany believe in institutions ’ . |
| 2 | I went through the drill that I had taught many times to my students , and with a little sideslip brought John 's creation back to earth . |
| 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 | The couple , who divorced last June , had parted several times . |
| 7 | The warmest reception from the audience went to Edward Williams , a hill farmer from Gwynedd whose personal radiation measurement in the aftermath of Chernobyl had registered ten times the normal level . |
| 8 | As Shama talked , Hussa added a reminder here and there as though they were stories which she had heard many times before . |
| 9 | He went on to allege that the Liberal Democrats had received 15 times as much in donations , but refrained from naming names . |
| 10 | If this had given eighteen times it then you would have started off with one eighteenth . |
| 11 | I had fallen many times and could not control the wheelbarrow unless I was close enough for my legs to bang into it . |
| 12 | The Georgian military said the Su-25 had attacked several times during Saturday but had been away by anti-aircraft fire . |
| 13 | Peter had won three times already and had been unlucky not to make it a fourth title the year before . |
| 14 | And he did so by having to fend off none other than Tom Watson , who had won three times at Butler National . |
| 15 | Williams designer Patrick Head said the car had absorbed 25 times the energy of the 20mph control crash tests each F1 car has to be put through . |
| 16 | The autopsy revealed he had absorbed three times that amount . ’ |
| 17 | The travellers knew some of the stories , for Tara had met many Time Travellers , and the tales had echoed back . |
| 18 | They had met nineteen times . |
| 19 | He was a seriouslooking Welshman whom I had met several times back in England and around the orchard . |
| 20 | A man she had met three times . |
| 21 | There were so few possessions or comforts in the room that it was clear Mr Sikes had met hard times . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 23 | As they approached , Corbett realised the fortifications of Earlston were a square tower of pleasing proportions within a stockade or peel which Corbett had seen many times on his journeys into Scotland . |
| 24 | He flipped open the book whose pages were filled with her beautiful , careful script , which he had seen many times on the shopping lists which she had made up under Matey 's instructions . |
| 25 | The faded opulence of its belle époque styling , with gleaming brass , mirrored walls and ceiling murals , suggested that it had seen better times in the long distant days of Renoir and Toulouse-Lautrec . |
| 26 | As for her face , it was one I had seen countless times in buses and supermarkets , dole queues and pubs , waiting outside schools or factories , at all ages from fifteen to fifty . |
| 27 | Her logical mind accepted this possibility , as it had done countless times before , but she did n't think her brother would ever have considered suicide . |
| 28 | Do n't think about it , just get up , like Uncle Jamie had done that time out hunting , broken arm and all . |
| 29 | Jonathon knew he had less than two miles to go and that his faithful horse would trudge him home as he had done many times before . |
| 30 | So was the ghostly passenger preparing to embark on another train journey as he had done many times during his life on earth ? |