Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agnes nodded and smiled at her ; then , as Nan came behind the counter , she whispered to her , ‘ His lordship has reminded me of the time . |
| 2 | Their views are readily recognizable in a world where the fuss about the Turin Shroud has reminded us of a time when high hopes and claims of miracle were commonly attached to pieces of the true cross or heads of John the Baptist , where much Christian literature promises believers great success in life if only they have enough faith in God , and where men and women of political power still try to have God and his Church on their side , and to use their authority to enhance their own . |
| 3 | For example , there is a right way and a wrong way of answering a stranger who has asked you for the time . |
| 4 | — as she might have said herself at the time ) . |
| 5 | ‘ You should have told me at the time ! ’ |
| 6 | We regret having to disturb you at a time when you are busy , but the matter is important . ’ |
| 7 | The organisation of the celebrations on such a large scale was a major success for Pateman and although he could not have known it at the time he was in the final few months of his long and difficult years of service to the District and the WEA . |
| 8 | Mm do you have to take them off every time you wash it ? |
| 9 | I 'm sorry to have to ask you at a time like this — ’ |
| 10 | In retrospect I can see that this implication can be drawn from the envelope , and I only wish I had realised it at the time . |
| 11 | Beryl 's words had impressed him at the time because they summed up his own vague feeling that what had happened and what was happening might be consequences of the old man 's cynical , even malicious contrivings . |
| 12 | He had pressed her to marry him , though he was considerably older than she was , and she had accepted him at a time of great emotional exhaustion . |
| 13 | It had soon passed , but it had alarmed her at the time . |
| 14 | But I had bought mine at a time when I 'd luckily accumulated some nice big fees , and she is just what I need , in every way . |
| 15 | Now tell me what what you 've got one at a time , starting at this end . |
| 16 | Memories came rushing back of the night when Johnny had described this room ; the night she had told him about the time hiccup . |
| 17 | Forcing her mind away from what Rune had told her about the time he 'd spent with Lotta and how the relationship had evaporated with only the bitter dregs left in evidence , she allowed it to dwell on how they 'd spent the rest of the day . |
| 18 | He then provided : ‘ I wish whatever legacies I have left to be paid by you , my dear son , and if any debt shall emerge , if I had borrowed anything for a time and shall owe it , I wish it to be paid by you , so that what I have left your sister may pass to her undiminished . ’ |
| 19 | He discovered that two Spitfires from 602 Squadron had actually met the ME110 head on — quite fortuitously — but it had been going so fast they had lost it by the time they 'd turned around . |
| 20 | That afternoon , various incidents that had puzzled me at the time , became clear to me . |
| 21 | This was pronounced with a kind of funereal satisfaction , and for a moment Jackson could imagine the remorseless gossip that someone else 's tragedy had afforded her at the time . |
| 22 | It had upset him at the time , but you had to get over stuff like that or you 'd go to the wall . |
| 23 | ‘ He would verbalize his sadnesses , throw his arms about as he told elaborate stories concerning people who had upset him at the time , even when going into sad tales about people who were important to him . |
| 24 | I should 've learnt everything by the time I was thirty , not wait until I was in me forties . |
| 25 | An ‘ only ’ dream has little effect on us ; we may remember it in the morning because it was funny or for some other reason , but it does not disturb us in any way ; most often , we recollect it only in the moments after waking and have forgotten it by the time we get out of bed . |
| 26 | Mike , though he not have thought it at the time , was extremely lucky , as the aircraft hit the ground the fuselage broke open , his helmet came off , became lodged in the opening and was then crushed as the fuselage closed again . |
| 27 | In order to appreciate something which is above and beyond ourselves we have to rid ourselves for a time of our sophistication and , in the words of Jesus Christ , become as little children again . |