Example sentences of "[pron] had [prep] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only comfort I had during this time was a farmer 's daughter in my class at school called Tina . |
| 2 | ‘ I had for some time been interested in the work of the 17th century Dutch and Spanish still-life school of painting . |
| 3 | My doctor had also prepared a report for the judge , about various medical problems which I hoped might be taken into consideration , along with the fact that I had for some time been re-building my life and now had very little to do with the lifestyle that brought me into contact with drugs . |
| 4 | I had at that time , and I 'm trying to recall probably two or three people working directly for me , yes |
| 5 | You were n't of afraid of me but the accent that I had at that time . |
| 6 | I had by this time spent some years in the States , including a year living in an Anglican theological college , and had watched my friends become ordained . |
| 7 | I had by this time met the latter . |
| 8 | They came to the bank of the stream which had for some time been running unseen beside them . |
| 9 | We received a call from the hospital , which had by this time received the results of the X-rays . |
| 10 | She was sitting back relaxedly and looking more contented than she had for some time . |
| 11 | Feeling closer to him than she had at any time since her mother 's death , Rory hid her face against his shoulder . |
| 12 | However , she had by that time passed her eightieth birthday . |
| 13 | She had by that time , however , had a whole week in which to do quite a lot of thinking . |
| 14 | This leads to a further conclusion that these wares were brought to the site by the Catuvellauni , who had at that time embarked on westward expansion . |
| 15 | Gervold , abbot of St Wandrille , who had for some time supervised the exaction of tolls at various Channel ports ( particularly Quentovic ) and established cordial relations with Offa , evidently mollified Charlemagne and a trade embargo was not maintained . |
| 16 | This lot have been brought into the barn for a rest , ’ indicating with his hand the others who had by this time fallen asleep , oblivious to the noise of the guns and the explosions very close to the barn . |
| 17 | So when we came to make the recording in Vienna I asked Strauss through a mutual friend we had at that time if I could use a fuller body of strings in the climaxes . |
| 18 | In fact , in this case the unit was out on a CDL trial with quite inadequate documentation — the only documentation we had at that time was such that we were frightened to show it to the teacher because we realized that it would ‘ finish him off ’ . |
| 19 | Oh we had it was the Airleys we had at that time . |
| 20 | But it 's on a hill in the , in the , in the , it 's a long way down from there to walk and , and if I remember rightly it was on the outside of the hotel , on a bank and that to me means that erm if we had had some weather , which we had at that time , then the roots could have suffered but the other clue I think is that erm it comes into leaf first and it drops its leaves first in the autumn so maybe it 's a different tree than the other , different variety , because there are several horse chestnuts are n't there ? |
| 21 | There had for some time been complaints about the secular elements in Catholic church music , the exhibitionism of organists , the use of tropes , the obscuring of the sacred texts by polyphony , and so on . |
| 22 | Now when I tell you about lodging houses , we had four registered lodging houses in Ipswich that they had at that time . |
| 23 | Even this severe shaking , however , failed to cause alarm amongst the local people ; they had by that time been living with the eruption for many weeks , and it is remarkable just to what extent familiarity of even something as exceptional as a volcanic eruption can breed contempt . |
| 24 | The issue of conscription was a particularly tender one for the union , for it had for some time been under pressure from the Admiralty over breaches of the obligation of seamen , nominally enforced by the Board of Trade , that sailors should be on board their ships on time and hence not delay sailings . |
| 25 | To such an end it had for some time been seeking to intensify contacts with both Tehran and Baghdad . |
| 26 | He had for some time , in the instinctive darkness of his mind in which so many heterogeneous problems were circulating , been wondering how , in what undramatic , as it were casual , not yet significant context he might utter them . |
| 27 | R. A. Butler , one of the Conservative Party 's chief spokesmen on foreign affairs , stated in the House of Commons on 27 February 1947 that he had for some time regarded Korea ‘ as perhaps the greatest danger spot for peace in the Far East ’ . |
| 28 | He had been able to join in mathematical discussion with the English he had at that time . |
| 29 | These days he felt happier than he had at any time in his life . |
| 30 | Bigwig was racing back across the field , looking more agitated than he had at any time since the encounter with Captain Holly . |