Example sentences of "[vb pp] time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How come time speeds up and slows down all at once ? |
| 2 | At Sheffield Park Garden we have always considered time spent in the production of good compost as time well spent . |
| 3 | In his last illness Charlie Thomson was granted time to compose his mind and convey his messages . |
| 4 | I stammered in French that I was very happy to see him and very grateful that he had made time to see me . |
| 5 | So I rang him up I said , Eric I have n't had time to ask anybody , I thought , well I 'll bloody come down and ask you then . |
| 6 | I 've not had time to celebrate but the champagne corks will be popping on Sunday night if we beat Leigh . |
| 7 | Now , you 've had time to sleep on the problem . |
| 8 | Once you 've had time to sleep you 'll feel better able to cope . |
| 9 | She had n't really had time to set it straight since his father 's death . |
| 10 | BEFORE the concrete foundations of the stage have even had time to set , and while the great steel girders of the fly tower are still being erected , Edinburgh Festival Theatre is receiving a succession of visitors from the leading opera and dance companies in Britain . |
| 11 | As the Prime Minister has now had time to appreciate the significance that Scots attach to the phrase ’ taking stock ’ , will he elaborate on what that means in the Scottish constitutional set-up ? |
| 12 | However , this almost certainly indicates that each species has arisen in the relatively recent past ( usually by hybridization between existing sexual species ) , and has not had time to evolve any substantial variability . |
| 13 | Even though she had only had time to glimpse the devastation that had been wrought , she knew that it had been a professional job , carried out by men who would leave no trace behind them . |
| 14 | I mean I wonder if we should be spending this much money on another wedding type advertising until we 've really had time to evaluate what we 're getting from the bridal magazine . |
| 15 | The only message some of them had had time to give their children as the social workers took them to waiting cars was ‘ have faith , be strong , we 'll do what we can ’ . |
| 16 | A freezer well stocked with little bags , each containing a prepared calorie-counted and fibre-counted meal , provides excellent protection against temptation to break your diet simply because you have n't had time to shop for the right foods . |
| 17 | If you ca n't use a credit card the next best options are a crossed cheque , a postal order , or try to persuade the company to take cash on delivery , once you 've had time to inspect the goods , of course . |
| 18 | The contents of Steinitz 's attics which the dealer claimed he had never had time to inspect comprising all manner of junk and broken pieces of furniture , occupied the weekend of 23–24 May and visibly left Tajan wishing he had never bothered . |
| 19 | Not until she had had time to explain that Oliver was only a little boy , that he had n't really understood … |
| 20 | In the event , part of the collection was left to the museum at Charleroi , near Magritte 's home town ; another part went to the Pompidou Centre 's Musée National d'Art Moderne , while the painter 's remaining works , house and surrealist library were left ownerless : his widow had not had time to stipulate how they should be divided . |
| 21 | Well what I what I did here , to work it out so I could come up to some sort of value , is I said I have n't had time to chuck these back on the screen yet to start again |
| 22 | But he might have had time to move . |
| 23 | Course I had to rush to come up here have n't had time to sort it out . |
| 24 | has n't had time to shave . |
| 25 | If a group arrives in the morning before the housekeeping department has had time to clean and service all the rooms , then the group must be made comfortable whilst waiting to gain access to their rooms . |
| 26 | Fru Blicher continued , ‘ We 've not had time to print Herr Eberhardt 's programme — in any case , he wants this to be a somewhat informal occasion — so Herr Eberhardt will introduce each of his songs himself . |
| 27 | For much the same market , and although I have not had time to finish it , so far it is very powerful . |
| 28 | Some British officers had been sent to help the Madeirans with their resistance , but they had arrived only a few days before the Portuguese troops landed and had not had time to organize . |
| 29 | Afterwards , when he drew her close , she went to sleep almost before she 'd had time to savour the pleasure of lying in his arms . |
| 30 | It is true , these same trivial errors did cause me some anxiety at first , but once I had had time to diagnose them correctly as symptoms of nothing more than a straightforward staff shortage , I have refrained from giving them much thought . |