Sentence examples for had been time from inspiring English sources
Patrick's subject had been time.
It had been time to turn the page.
Newman's supporters said that her toughest opponent had been time.
When he was alive, there had been time to know him.
With the girls nearly all out of the house in Oyster Bay, it had been time to buy a summer place, Mrs. Papa said.
Before that there had been time to cause a minor social media storm and stoke up a storyline that has been rumbling all week over his jousting with Bradley Wiggins, with whom he has always quarrelled like an older brother.
Chelsea, he said, had been time-wasting from the first minute, defending with 10 players on the 18-yard line.
You might think a Byzantine artist had been time-warped to Britain to portray not only a selection of 20th-century geniuses, but also a miner, a Covent Garden porter with baskets on his head, cricketers, footballers, a Christmas pudding and some mud pies.
Before reaching the shore, Rousseau and her team found Oceanic 815 survivor Jin-Soo Kwon (Daniel Dae Kim) in the water, who had been time-travelling as a result of the time shifts which had been moving him and the flight survivors through the island's history.
Adult females that had been time-mated were treated from GD13.5 20.5 with either corn oil vehicle (control) or 500 mg/kg DBP (99% pure; Sigma-Aldrich Ltd., Dorset, UK) in 1 mL/kg corn oil administered daily by oral gavage; this treatment regimen corresponds to the schedule we used previously (Fisher et al. 2003; Mahood et al. 2005) and is termed "long-term DBP treatment".
