Example sentences of "he [vb past] [vb pp] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had always suspected that he 'd had little time for any brain power that she might possess — just as she had always known that her chief value for him had been the almost instantaneous sexual desire they had felt for each other . |
| 2 | He 'd had more time to think , to get used to this slightly absurd rapture . |
| 3 | The boy repeated none of the simple errors he had made first time round . |
| 4 | He had realised some time before that he was becoming more and more attracted to her . |
| 5 | He felt he had wasted enough time on the editor , and replied with asperity : ‘ How should I know ? |
| 6 | He had taken some time off yesterday morning to take Azor , and incidentally her , for a long walk . |
| 7 | He had known some time before . |
| 8 | It was an invitation from Rupert Stonebird to the dinner party he had mentioned some time ago . |
| 9 | He had found little time for romance since his marriage ended . |
| 10 | I would n't have changed places with my father 's new children who , although they were five and seven , still seemed to smell of damp nappies and regurgitated milk , but I used sometimes to wonder what I would have been like if he had devoted similar time to me and not left me entirely to the women . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | One only wishes that he had spent more time gaining a perspective outside America . |
| 13 | He had himself frequently led patrols along the narrow roads and boreens that ran like veins through the countryside about Cork , and before that he had spent more time than he cared to remember in the muddy trenches and dug-outs of France with shells screaming overhead . |
| 14 | As an example of US energy inefficiency , he said he had spent more time going to and from meetings during the Houston summit than in the meetings themselves . |
| 15 | To be fair , he had spent some time in the cities of North Africa and , as one might do in similar urban areas of Britain , he had met the worst of the indigenous population . |
| 16 | ‘ Do stop worrying , ’ Lili ordered him , after he had spent some time fulminating against the iniquities of the gallery owner . |
| 17 | It is uncertain what weight can be placed on the evidence of a medieval Welsh triad which refers to Eadwine as nurtured in Môn ( Anglesey ) , implying that he had spent some time — perhaps while in exile — on the island , but set into the earliest surviving Welsh tradition is the memory of armed conflict between Eadwine and Cadwallon . |
| 18 | Dippy Martin had not seen anyone but he had spent some time at the top of the lane . |
| 19 | He had spent some time alone after talking to her father , had changed his clothes and had a shower , trying to clear his mind of all the stuff of history , the political necessities that ruled their lives , the reasons he must lie . |
| 20 | One said he had spent some time in South Africa : ‘ The whites used their Bible to do down the black people . ’ |
| 21 | He had bought some time for himself by refusing to answer any questions till he had heard the tape . |