Example sentences of "'d [verb] more time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd given more time to thinking about Lucy than anything else for months . |
| 2 | She 'd tried to keep the newspaper story hidden from her because she did n't want to discuss it until she 'd had more time to get her thoughts in order … but of course mother had found it and started questioning compulsively about abortion , what exactly was the law on it now , how did you get one , where did you go , what did it cost , things she must have heard Dorothy and her friends discussing a hundred times but which the newspaper report had triggered into today 's obsession . |
| 3 | If only I 'd had more time . |
| 4 | He 'd had more time to think , to get used to this slightly absurd rapture . |
| 5 | I think would have probably , had more , if we 'd had more time and reversed all and been clearer on our roles . |
| 6 | Fran wished that it had been further away , wished that she 'd had more time to compose herself and remove all traces of that kiss , but as she opened the door and got out of the car when they stopped in front of the neat little semi she was aware of the throbbing redness of her bruised lips , the faintly dishevelled state of her silvery hair . |