Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | Please could you let me know i ) if the council has set any time limit on these protracted negotiations and if so what it is and ii ) when planning consent is given will it apply from the date the original application was approved or the date the conditions were approved . |
| 32 | So I did record it again ; let's see how far it has gone this time ! |
| 33 | I 'm hoping that it has worked this time . |
| 34 | London has come to be my second home , but it has taken some time to get used to it . |
| 35 | According to purchasing manager Roger DaForno , this excellent relationship has taken some time to build and there 's no doubt that both organizations ' commitment to a process of continuous improvement has helped immensely . |
| 36 | The lower part of the iris of the eye reflects a brilliant green colour which the author has tried many times to capture on film , without success . |
| 37 | Nolan , now married with two children , has tried several times to give up healing , but people wo n't let him . |
| 38 | However , Brenda 's contribution to the argument at lines 11 – 13 — which she has signalled several times with Standard " I always say , right " — involves a switch from London English to Creole . |
| 39 | The hon. Gentleman must recognise that the Labour proposal would cause a double upheaval and a return to a system which the Opposition Front Bench has criticised many times . |
| 40 | The length and content of the course has changed many times since the last war , and several high-ranking officers are updated each year . |
| 41 | Environmental archaeology provides evidence to demonstrate that the human environment has changed many times in the past , each change heralding periods of technological , economic and social change as human societies struggled to find new ways to gain a living from the world around them . |
| 42 | In females , one of the X chromosomes is switched off early in development , but not before the fertilised egg has divided several times . |
| 43 | It was a song she 'd heard many times in the past , one that had stayed in the popular charts for months . |
| 44 | She 'd given more time to thinking about Lucy than anything else for months . |
| 45 | I thought we 'd won this time . ’ |
| 46 | Is there a message for me from a garage ? ’ she changed her mind to rephrase it pleasantly to the man whom she 'd seen many times before and who , from his broad welcoming smile , she knew had remembered her . |
| 47 | Looping the loop at a Manchester airshow as he 'd done many times before in the vintage Spitfire … pilot David Moore from Horsley near Stroud misjudged the manoeuvere . |
| 48 | She had always suspected that he 'd had little time for any brain power that she might possess — just as she had always known that her chief value for him had been the almost instantaneous sexual desire they had felt for each other . |
| 49 | Not that she 'd had much time to explore it , of course . |
| 50 | She 'd tried to keep the newspaper story hidden from her because she did n't want to discuss it until she 'd had more time to get her thoughts in order … but of course mother had found it and started questioning compulsively about abortion , what exactly was the law on it now , how did you get one , where did you go , what did it cost , things she must have heard Dorothy and her friends discussing a hundred times but which the newspaper report had triggered into today 's obsession . |
| 51 | If only I 'd had more time . |
| 52 | He 'd had more time to think , to get used to this slightly absurd rapture . |
| 53 | I think would have probably , had more , if we 'd had more time and reversed all and been clearer on our roles . |
| 54 | Fran wished that it had been further away , wished that she 'd had more time to compose herself and remove all traces of that kiss , but as she opened the door and got out of the car when they stopped in front of the neat little semi she was aware of the throbbing redness of her bruised lips , the faintly dishevelled state of her silvery hair . |
| 55 | Cos I think they 'd gone some time ago . |
| 56 | and she put on the back of this one she was thankful that at least I 'd managed this time to get the mark in the area where it should have been in the first |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | I would have saved much time and pain if I had paid more attention to how I was racing . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | 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 . |