Example sentences of "[modal v] have [vb pp] [det] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the spontaneous origin of life turned out to be a probable enough event to have occurred during the few man-decades in which chemists have done their experiments , then life should have arisen many times on Earth , and many times on planets within radio range of Earth . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | So it 's quite an interesting , whatever you think about Woodrow Wilson in the First World War is quite a interesting book , in drawing a character study of the kind of person who Freud must have seen many times in his practice . |
| 4 | Must have happened some time after Buchanan and his sidekick came here . |
| 5 | Could have gone any time with with nothing through his bloody arteries ! |
| 6 | Singer John Matthews says : ‘ If we 'd have spent more time on the record we probably would have ruined it . ’ |
| 7 | Pigs may have spent some time with the swineherd in the distant woodland , but part of the wood would have been cropped for fuel , poles , wood for repairs to buildings , fences , implements and so on , while a few trees may have been cut down for constructional work on the bridge over the Yeo or to build a new house . |
| 8 | Whereas years ago , it would have taken some time for that come by by which time it was no longer news , and people shrugged their shoulders and say well , |
| 9 | I know Howard Wilkinson was disappointed at the delivery in the first leg and , if I know him , Leeds will have spent some time since working to make sure those balls count next time . |
| 10 | To produce so many papers jointly , plus scores more separately , during 1985 through 1988 can have left little time for intensive work on the test-tube fusion project . ’ |