Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [vb pp] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for her face , it was one I had seen countless times in buses and supermarkets , dole queues and pubs , waiting outside schools or factories , at all ages from fifteen to fifty . |
| 2 | I had fallen many times and could not control the wheelbarrow unless I was close enough for my legs to bang into it . |
| 3 | This was a vehicle with all mod cons at the rear of the bus , which I had followed many times and checked on its progress flying over the route ; oddly enough , on my last night in Mespot I was to sleep in the Imperial Airways rest fort at Rutbah Wells , I had refuelled there many times and had wondered with awe at the vast ugly route-flying Imperial aircraft — Handley Page HP42s — and even more so at the passengers who took an even greater interest in our tiny single-engined Wapiti aircraft , and furthermore asked endless questions about our aircraft and of our life in Baghdad . |
| 4 | I went through the drill that I had taught many times to my students , and with a little sideslip brought John 's creation back to earth . |
| 5 | ‘ I had noticed some time ago that the shoemaker had a beautiful daughter and the more I saw of her , the more I liked her . ’ |
| 6 | I had discovered some time ago that he had loved Claudia Cohn-Casson . |
| 7 | It had been awkward for me to ask our family doctor to prescribe it : he knew my husband and I had parted some time ago . |
| 8 | As I had done several times on the journey , since I had n't entirely managed to put out of my mind the events of Uulaa and my suspicions . |
| 9 | This worried me because I could not make out what I had done this time to annoy her . |
| 10 | He was a seriouslooking Welshman whom I had met several times back in England and around the orchard . |
| 11 | ‘ I had holidayed several times in France and was toying with the idea of buying a house there , but with no definite plan in mind . |
| 12 | I could n't go back to work although I had tried several times and socializing was no fun at all . |
| 13 | For example in B , I had tried several times without success to contact a third-year female physics student who , it seemed , never looked in her departmental pigeonhole where I left the notes . |
| 14 | I think if I had had more time to myself when I first retired I would n't have made that mistake and would have looked for interests nearer home . |
| 15 | I had spent some time on a camping/cycling holiday with my family in the West country . |
| 16 | It was very different from when , during my student days , I had spent some time in the specialised wards of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases at St Pancras , where patients were treated for cholera , yellow fever , elephantiasis , malaria , leprosy , encephalitis lethargica , and a dozen other diseases that might have originated in the tropics . |
| 17 | She had lived many times on the edge of danger and she knew better than to sink back to sleep . |
| 18 | Because of this she felt generous and said she had realised some time ago that a really beautiful man was very much more beautiful than the most beautiful woman , and was n't that interesting . |
| 19 | A man she had met three times . |
| 20 | As Shama talked , Hussa added a reminder here and there as though they were stories which she had heard many times before . |
| 21 | That he 'd noticed she 'd got a decent figure was to be expected , she supposed , seeing that the lace cotton blouse and culottes she had worn that time she 'd gone out to dinner with Travis had touched her contours comfortably . |
| 22 | She had lost precious time waiting for the nurse to leave . |
| 23 | She had spent some time after breakfast standing on her balcony and looking out towards the mountains . |
| 24 | Owen loved the bustle of the bazaars , of the whole native city , in fact ; but after you had spent some time in them , especially when it was as hot as this , you felt an overwhelming need for space and air , and after forcing their way through the blocked thoroughfares of the Tentmakers ' Bazaar they were glad to emerge into the more open streets . |
| 25 | We had made good time and had to ease speed to avoid closing the island in darkness . |
| 26 | We had spent much time looking for the right place and seemed to have explored almost every corner of the country , from Devon to Cumberland , and had almost settled on a disused mill at Fisherton-de-la-Mare , near Amesbury . |
| 27 | He had , in fact , just left me on a bench in a nearby park where we had spent some time together before he decided to go for a stroll . |
| 28 | Admittedly , if we had entered five times as many patients there might have been a significant difference but it might have gone either way and we have not been able to show any improvement in response erm to either the Pasteur relative to the Evans or vice versa . |
| 29 | To the crew it was a routine trip and one they had made many times before by night . |
| 30 | They had made good time . |