Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] [pos pn] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt very sorry that someone who was a partly trained civil engineer should have to waste his time sweeping floors and doing other such menial tasks , but that 's how it was — he was one of the unlucky ones — or should I say lucky ? |
| 2 | It was characteristic that a small , relatively unimportant detail of that kind — from his point of view , not mine — should have occupied his time when he had assumed this enormous burden . |
| 3 | ‘ I should have thought your time would be better spent studying the common people . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh — well , I suppose I 'll have to spend my time in just looking round the place . ’ |
| 5 | This gentleman could have taken his time , but as Adele Appassany , another assistant who witnessed the scenes the day before explained : |
| 6 | If he 'd have taken his time and he 'd have got himself some more work yeah ? |
| 7 | He may have frittered his time away in constructing etymologies and writing kindly letters to strangers . |
| 8 | ‘ If neither of us had been here she would have gone her time . ’ |
| 9 | It would give her time to explore and investigate and she would have to pick her time carefully because she had the feeling that Felipe de Santis would be keeping them well in his sight and strictly under his thumb . |
| 10 | He would come when he would come , and the Tabula Rasa would have to bide its time , though the longer he was away the more the likelihood grew of one of their number voicing the suspicion some of them surely nurtured : that Godolphin 's dealings in talismans and wantons were only the tip of the iceberg . |