Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He had realised some time before that he was becoming more and more attracted to her . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The travellers knew some of the stories , for Tara had met many Time Travellers , and the tales had echoed back . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Do n't think about it , just get up , like Uncle Jamie had done that time out hunting , broken arm and all . |
| 7 | This worried me because I could not make out what I had done this time to annoy her . |
| 8 | They had made good time . |
| 9 | We had made good time and had to ease speed to avoid closing the island in darkness . |
| 10 | The boy repeated none of the simple errors he had made first time round . |
| 11 | The smart money had moved some time earlier , becoming cash or commodities , anything that could survive the flash-fire of a market crash . |
| 12 | He had bought some time for himself by refusing to answer any questions till he had heard the tape . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A.A. rang me at 4 o/c she returned on 2nd and had had grand time with Gwenda and families . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He had known some time before . |
| 24 | We had spent much time looking for the right place and seemed to have explored almost every corner of the country , from Devon to Cumberland , and had almost settled on a disused mill at Fisherton-de-la-Mare , near Amesbury . |
| 25 | Marinetti , the organizer of the movement , who launched the first Futurist manifesto in 1909 , had spent much time in France and was in touch with the most advanced French thought . |
| 26 | He had spent much time on the pier with William and Joe and had returned to find his pupils assembled , eager to learn for once . |
| 27 | The manner of his election was dubious in the extreme ; Gallus had spent much time at the court of Theuderic , but at the time of Quintianus 's death he was in Clermont ; while the citizens were trying to decide on a new candidate the Holy Spirit descended on Gallus , according to his relative Gregory , and on the advice of his uncle Inpetratus he set off and presented himself to Theuderic , who authorized his consecration . |
| 28 | It had been a well-known fact that their last medical officer had spent little time studying new methods of health and safety and accident prevention and there had been an ever-present air of friction between himself and Ron Banks . |
| 29 | She was taking a gamble , already Hari had spent precious time and materials making footwear that might never be bought and paid for . |
| 30 | Few under 75 had spent any time in such homes but more than half those dying when they were aged 85 or more had spent at least some of the last year of their lives in one . |