Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [vb pp] [adj] 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 | If so , the town must have known turbulent times in the past . |
| 6 | Could have gone any time with with nothing through his bloody arteries ! |
| 7 | Eager , it seemed , to atone for the embarrassment of Saturday 's 5-2 home defeat by Aston Villa , the London side could have scored three times in the opening nine minutes and went on to dominate the rest of the first half with an ease that pointed to only one result . |
| 8 | Singer John Matthews says : ‘ If we 'd have spent more time on the record we probably would have ruined it . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If the ferry boat was there it would be quicker , if not she would have lost precious time by not taking the direct path to the bridge . |
| 11 | By the time the United Kingdom referendum had been held at the beginning of June 1975 , electors in Northern Ireland would have voted seven times in two and a quarter years . |
| 12 | 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 , |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And the same amount of things per head of the population will have been produced in the same ways by the same classes of people for many generations together ; and therefore this supply of the appliances for production will have had full time to be adjusted to the steady demand . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |