Example sentences of "had [verb] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blisters which had formed the first time now burst , weeping clear fluid onto the burner which hissed like an angry snake . |
| 2 | She was n't scared , not even when she was half-way up the path , dark yews all around her , and heard the sound she had heard the first time . |
| 3 | The reins were in one piece ; no one had noticed the previous time , he 'd been able to make an extra hole and buckle them . |
| 4 | Even more so than he had done the previous time , I said did n't you hear this about this at the station meeting and he said it had n't been brought up . |
| 5 | These hijras are very bad and very dirty ladies , ’ he had said the first time I tried to give Razia a lift in his car . |
| 6 | For a split second he experienced that same numbing fear he had felt the first time he had come under enemy fire . |
| 7 | Tsu Ma knelt down and held his shoulders , nodding , remembering how he had felt the first time he had seen the ritual , not then knowing what was happening , nor why . |
| 8 | And we talked of the Red Fort and how Pakeezah had cried the first time she went around it as a schoolgirl . |
| 9 | They were the same colours-the same jewels — as those he had worn the first time they had met . |
| 10 | She was wearing the coat with all the buttons and buckles that she had worn the first time I saw her outside Kaama 's flat . |
| 11 | Poor Martinho , almost his portly self again , had spent the whole time with at least one gun in his back . |
| 12 | I had remembered the last time I had stood in a garden with a man . |
| 13 | START number 13 proved unlucky for American skier A J Kitt , with the season 's first World Cup downhill at Val d'Isere abandoned due to bad weather after he had set the best time . |
| 14 | ‘ By the time I had scored the third time I did n't feel tired . |
| 15 | They dragged me to the Police Station where I had to make a detailed statement of everything that had happened the first time intercourse took place . |
| 16 | What had happened the first time ? |
| 17 | The walk there took only about ten minutes and she thought that even with the frightening weakness in her legs that she had discovered the first time she got out of bed she ought to manage that distance . |
| 18 | I had to spend the usual time on the beat , in uniform . ’ |
| 19 | It was Li Yuan 's horse ; the horse he had ridden the last time he had come . |
| 20 | If the hon. Gentleman had listened the last time we had Home Office questions he would know perfectly well that the standard spending assessment has been set in West Yorkshire to enable it to employ police officers up to the full establishment . |