Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ran his eye down the list , looking at the column in which he 'd noted the time of day for each killing . |
| 2 | He said our flight had been delayed and he 'd spent the time in the bar , and then added , rather unconvincingly , that some woman had insisted on ‘ plying Phaeton with liquor ’ as he put it , but there was a hollowness in the way he said it , and I do n't think either Gill or I believed him for a moment . |
| 3 | He had wasted no time , the body was almost warm as life , only no breath in him , so we let all alone until morning . |
| 4 | He had had no time to acquaint himself with his fief , twice seen , and well enough served by its own . |
| 5 | He had only been in the cellar for about one minute when the ghost appeared and he had had no time to doze . |
| 6 | The author recalls an able Treasury minister who , after resignation , became a convinced and cogent parliamentary reformer , explaining that as a minister he had had no time to work out this aspect of policy and therefore , since the Treasury was opposed to more specialist committees of the House of Commons , he used the brief they provided and he had been a formidable opponent of these reforms at the Cabinet Committee level . |
| 7 | He had had no time to confer with his client and only twelve hours to study the charges . |
| 8 | The chairman was clearly annoyed at Maradona 's claim that he had had no time to notify him on Monday before returning to Argentina for the friendly against Denmark . |
| 9 | Ventris died before he had had the time to turn his attentions to Linear A , about which he is reported to have had some initial ideas . |
| 10 | Though he 'd spoken with Klein daily there was no sign of a commission yet , so he had spent the time re-educating himself . |
| 11 | He refused to set a time within which he would step down , saying he was giving diplomacy time to solve the crisis peacefully . |
| 12 | He refused to set a time within which he would step down , saying he was giving diplomacy time to solve the crisis peacefully . |