Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] have [vb pp] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have done better if I 'd have had more time . |
| 2 | I would have saved much time and pain if I had paid more attention to how I was racing . |
| 3 | Perhaps you and I would have spent more time together . |
| 4 | I was , as you might imagine , a little taken aback by this request and ordinarily the matter might have been one I would have spent some time pondering . |
| 5 | I mean did you ever have time for dances , and going to the pictures and that kind of thing , I mean you must have found some time ? |
| 6 | ‘ Mr. Paris , you should have left more time . |
| 7 | The expression on her face read my last remark as no more than a condescending gesture of patient sympathy such as she must have met many times before . |
| 8 | Exactly thirty minutes later , Shannon packed the last two brushes into an already crammed hold-all and glanced quickly round the small room , checking for anything she might have missed first time round . |
| 9 | ‘ Poor thing , ’ she might have said another time , but now any sympathy she had for the machine was swamped by her fears for her children . |
| 10 | That 's a win lose , you might 've lost that time but you 're gon na get it back another time . |
| 11 | If the ferry boat was there it would be quicker , if not she would have lost precious time by not taking the direct path to the bridge . |
| 12 | Erm I suppose got here a bit later you would have had more time to sort this lot out . |
| 13 | Singer John Matthews says : ‘ If we 'd have spent more time on the record we probably would have ruined it . ’ |
| 14 | It 's welcome , although we would have prefered full time jobs , but it 's a step in the right direction . |
| 15 | To be honest it was a game we would have won 99 times out of a 100 , but this was one of those occasions when we were destined not to do it . |
| 16 | And did they , they must have had lean times if they sat around and waited for a boat , one did n't come in some days may be . |
| 17 | If Lithuania had scored , as they should have done several times in the second half , maybe that would have shaken the Irish from their slumber . |
| 18 | They 'd have had four times more FAKINTIL deserters if they 'd shown as little as a quarter extra clemency . |
| 19 | They will have lost little time if we do decide that they are too specialist . |
| 20 | ‘ I ca n't recall it ever happening in any association affiliated to the IBA before , although it may have happened some time ago , ’ added the former Irish international player . |
| 21 | ‘ I ca n't recall it ever happening in any association affiliated to the IBA before , although it may have happened some time ago , ’ added the former Irish international player . |
| 22 | They watched him trying to free himself , as he must have tried countless times before . |
| 23 | Brand new — in first class condition it must have cost many times that to make , being in heavy tin and having a lid with collapsible handle that turned it into a frying pan . |
| 24 | As that was a race in which Lotus , knowing that Fittipaldi was planning to leave , had given no team orders to Ronnie Peterson to be obliging to Fittipaldi , Ronnie won — as he could have done several times previously — and with Ronnie 's win , Fittipaldi was eliminated from the title race . |
| 25 | ‘ He would have felt three times as virtuous , ’ I said , and the barman looked at me blankly . |
| 26 | Every broken marriage , every wrecked career must have one , in some form or another , and doubtless career and marriage might have drifted aimlessly on together for a few more years if the sea had been clear of Carlas , but it would have ended some time or other , and possibly with a lot more pain than there was now . |
| 27 | Whereas years ago , it would have taken some time for that come by by which time it was no longer news , and people shrugged their shoulders and say well , |
| 28 | No doubt he sees this as a stage in his learning to win again , but all the time , he is learning instead to derive small satisfactions from losing — a skill he will have discarded some time before he won the Weembledon ( he really did pronounce it like that ) Junior Championship , all of 20 years ago . |