Example sentences of "[vb past] have time " in BNC.
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| 31 | There was a very affected couple , Erwin and Pam , who were expert at creaming off the best for themselves — and as they were in their mid-thirties , they had had time for some practice . |
| 32 | I turned my head away quickly , but I had had time to take in another feature — his rather sharp , small nose that looked as if it might have been broken in a boxing match . |
| 33 | I would have gladly done so , if I had had time . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | When it was too late and Nails had had time to cool down , he realised he should have asked for Mr Bean or even Biddy or Nutty 's dad to be contacted . |
| 36 | This led to young players being drafted into top-class soccer before their abilities had had time to mature . |
| 37 | ‘ No ; the police came to see me before I had had time to make other arrangements . |
| 38 | When Hugo returned home dinner was served as soon as he had had time to change . |
| 39 | Nigel Cramer had had time to warn Quinn , speaking from his car as it sped towards Scotland Yard . |
| 40 | 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 ’ . |
| 41 | When he had had time to scan it , Hayman spoke again . |
| 42 | It was not a job that Ernie Brewer had had time to get around to , with all the other demands the garden made on his time . |
| 43 | There were fewer tensions , and in their lives not so many things had had time to go wrong . |
| 44 | Even Benny had looked green when she 'd first seen it , and Benny had had time to get used to the idea . |
| 45 | At first the Athenians and Inaros were brilliantly successful , as revolts from Persia often were , initially — before the Great King had had time to mobilize a feudal force from nothing . |
| 46 | He had had time enough : Newton was right . |
| 47 | As he saw her , he stretched out his arms and lifted her up before she had had time to reach the bottom step . |
| 48 | Williams showed that it would be much better to concentrate on attacking U-boats which could still be seen on the surface , with a depth-charge setting of 25 feet , and ignore those which had had time to submerge , because of the uncertainty in knowing their exact position . |
| 49 | The books of Mary Somerville ( e.g. , On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences , 1834 ) proved valuable to men of science wanting to keep up with what was going on in other fields , and unable to understand it all even if they had had time to read it . |
| 50 | So now you 're imagining that he , whoever he is , popped this through the letterbox , waited till she had had time to read it , then rang the bell and invited her to take a stroll with him . |
| 51 | Besides , I had had time to pick up the late edition . |
| 52 | Laura had had time , while listening without much attention to these remarks , to swallow a further quantity of spirits . |
| 53 | Now she had had time to get to know him better , see other sides of him as well . |
| 54 | ‘ She arrived about seven thirty and they had had time enough to get to grips with their subject matter already , by all accounts . ’ |
| 55 | But not yet — not until she had had time to rebuild her shattered defences . |
| 56 | The ceiling and the walls in places were badly scorched , but structurally there had been very little damage and , luckily , the fire had been brought under control before it had had time to spread to other parts of the building . |
| 57 | Not until she had had time to explain that Oliver was only a little boy , that he had n't really understood … |
| 58 | That seemed obvious now he had had time to think . |
| 59 | Now that she had had time to think everything through on the long walk home , she had soon realised how ridiculous her accusations must have sounded . |
| 60 | During his absence Luce had had time to think about his reasons for bringing her here . |