Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [vb pp] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | You take your moistened paper it should n't be dripping wet like this , it should have had time to dry out a bit . |
| 2 | Of course I have n't written the review — I doubt if I should have had time , my own work takes up too much . ’ |
| 3 | By the time they reached the railway station , Dot realized she must have had time to get herself straight inside , for she seemed almost cheery again . |
| 4 | They were all there except Christine , even Barry Morse who must have taken time off from his job , presumably to lend support to his wife and the family . |
| 5 | I 'll be gone — you 'll have had time to think things through and come to the right decision . ’ |
| 6 | A JUDGE told a jury yesterday that it ‘ might have saved time ’ if evil Moors murderers Myra Hindley and Ian Brady had been shot . |
| 7 | But he might have had time to move . |
| 8 | ‘ He says I had the tools , the knowledge , the opportunity and the location , and he looked up those races I rode at Ascot and worked out that I could have had time between the first two and the last to drive to Maidenhead and remove Harry 's car . |
| 9 | I was sure that no one could have had time to cross the gravel . |
| 10 | So he was gon na ask if they got in late because they could have had time to get it repaired . |
| 11 | No , if I 'd have cut time they would n't hear no conversation ! |
| 12 | Now I suppose for most of us because of the very fact were here this morning they have been few and far between such experiences , perhaps what is more common is that we may have spent time with someone who was dying , their last few hours , their last few minutes , and if they were not unconscious I wonder what sort of conversation would be going on between us and them , what sort of things would we , would we of been saying , what would we be asking us , well in this passage that we have been reading we have just such a conversation , two men who are on the verge of death , death can only be hours away for both of them , and here they have this conversation , it was in that sense it was one of the strangest interviews any body ever had with Jesus not only is the , the account here of er a death bed conversion , but the one who is saving is also in the process of dying . |
| 13 | Perhaps , what is more common is that , we may have spent time with someone who was dying , their last few hours , their few minutes . |
| 14 | Mahmud may have bought time for himself , but he stored up trouble for his successors . |
| 15 | Like so many in the New Zealand tour party , Fox has never experienced the intimidating atmosphere generated at the great sporting shrine and may have taken time to slip into the groove . |
| 16 | The longer period of separation would have given time for the birds there to evolve as separate species and to have lost all connection with their original parent stock in India . |
| 17 | I just thought it would have saved time . |
| 18 | No doubt after six days of living in a trench , the dirt would have had time to grime itself in . |
| 19 | During his round trip ‘ described to death ’ the boat would have called in at ports on the way and the passengers would have had time to wander whilst goods were unloaded and loaded . |
| 20 | Obviously there had been no notices after the first night , and few of the critics of the major papers would have had time , let alone interest , to give the play a second viewing ; but a North London local paper with a weekly deadline had sent along its critic on the Monday of the second week , and their review appeared on the Thursday . |
| 21 | Working on George 's local knowledge — his father 's home was less than an hour 's drive away — they planned to reach Miss Tuckey 's cottage at half past eight when the other committee members would have had time to digest and drive in from the countryside . |
| 22 | Normally I would have taken time to think , and said something polite , but somehow I answered at once , ‘ No , sir . ’ |
| 23 | Fabia awakened in her hotel room in Bamberg and thought that , had Cara been with her , since their destination was not so very far away now , they would have taken time out to have a look round . |
| 24 | You will have invested time and effort in the activity and you have a vested interest in seeing a return from the investment . |
| 25 | Before the visitor has had the time to see the baptistery ruins , the plaques or the crucifix he will have spent time near the door . |
| 26 | The owner will have spent time finding out about his territory ; where the best sites are for hiding , where the best food is to be found . |
| 27 | A national charity is claiming that many of the four thousand young Scots who become homeless this year will have spent time in care . |
| 28 | Any redness will have had time to disappear by the morning . |
| 29 | The fourth report of the Committee on Monitoring Agreements on Tobacco Advertising and Sponsorship was produced this summer and the Minister will have had time to study it in detail . |
| 30 | The complication here is that the total time period is more than 20 years , and obviously the earlier workers will have had time to publish many more papers than those finishing their studies in recent years , but the dataset is so large that such effects will be the same for all universities , i.e. they will be self-cancelling . |