Example sentences of "[adj] time [coord] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fat Marlene with the wobbling chin , laughing Clyde who could smack you across the mouth without once losing his smile , and slow , amiable Harry who always asked the wrong questions at the wrong time and had by far the biggest prick of the many hundreds or thousands she had sucked and handled . |
| 2 | If anyone had prevented Elinor from being an oil executive , or a leading novelist and short-story writer , it was Elinor 's mother , a small , heavily built woman with a squint , who lived very near the Sellafield atomic reactor. principally because Elinor 's mother was completely without talent for anything apart from giving men a hard time and had , presumably , passed on her genes to her daughter . |
| 3 | We had made good time and had to ease speed to avoid closing the island in darkness . |
| 4 | Metal whiskers of this kind had been known of , in a general sort of way , for a long time but had been regarded as a nuisance or a curiosity . |
| 5 | He was glad of the moon , for he had been walking away from the road and the quarry for a long time and had reached the rising , stony ground at the foot of the foin . |
| 6 | I did n't realise that Dad was home early that afternoon because he had been put on short time and had had to take a drop in wages in consequence . |
| 7 | He worked full time but had to spend most of the rest of his life feeding himself intravenously . |
| 8 | The implication is that the early Australians may have imported their basic mythology at some distant time or had experienced cultural intercourse with visitors from India in the not so remote past . |