Example sentences of "[verb] have [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The short explanation , if you want to know why elephant seals keep er an even sex ratio and not a one to ten sex ratio , even though only one male in every ten mates , is that every male that does mate has ten times more reproductive success than those that do n't . |
| 2 | He has had ample time to understand what the world wants him to do . |
| 3 | Any attempt to produce the letter for the first time at completion should be resisted and completion delayed until the purchaser has had adequate time to consider the disclosures . |
| 4 | If an aid is granted without informing the Commission or before the Commission has had sufficient time to examine the aid , the Court has recently held that the Commission has power to take interim measures ordering the member states concerned to suspend the aid and provide the Commission with all relevant information . |
| 5 | Where rejuvenation intervenes before the river has had sufficient time for lateral erosion to form a flat valley floor , there will not be river terraces at the side of the stream but merely breaks of slope in the valley sides ( Fig. 9.6 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Not that she 'd had much time to explore it , of course . |
| 8 | She 'd had bad times before she got the flat , but with the flat and the job she felt herself well off She worked from six in the morning to a quarter to nine , getting the offices clean and tidy for the staff who came in at nine o'clock , and for two hours in the evening , from six-thirty to eight-thirty . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If only I 'd had more time . |
| 11 | He 'd had more time to think , to get used to this slightly absurd rapture . |
| 12 | I think would have probably , had more , if we 'd had more time and reversed all and been clearer on our roles . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Apparently after Naylor had spent hours checking around my old haunts without success , he finally got lucky when someone recalled having many times seen my car parked outside this block of flats . |
| 15 | His mother , preoccupied with paying the bills , seemed to have little time and energy for her children — particularly Graham who , as the only boy , was a bitter reminder of her husband . |
| 16 | I seemed to have more time to get things together the second time and Fringe stayed beside Bob fairly smoothly to the end . |
| 17 | Macca looked a class act , some great passing , and seemed to have more time on the ball than anyone else , but he did n't get into the game quite often enough . |
| 18 | So in two hours , you 've got to have twelve times as many men as you 've already got . |
| 19 | I 've got to have some time alone . |
| 20 | A Duke of Aquitaine in the style of 1176 and 1179 was not going to have much time for customs which reflected the political realities of earlier days . |
| 21 | I wondered how many adventures we were going to have this time . |
| 22 | You 're going to have more time than us by Christmas . |
| 23 | Anybody from forty to forty nine , will pay three percent and then they 've got this strange idea that ladies over the age of fifty are going to have more time off work through illness , so they 're going to charge us four percent , and the men three percent . |
| 24 | In a low and antagonistic frame of mind she accepted that Ace was never going to have any time for her . |
| 25 | I seem to have more time for her than I had with them , and I still do my housework and all the washing . |
| 26 | I had years in Latin America , the Far East , all over the place , and any time I came back to London , well , there was too much to do to have much time for somewhere like ffeatherstonehaugh 's , and anyway I was married by then and my wife would n't have approved . |
| 27 | They 'd have had four times more FAKINTIL deserters if they 'd shown as little as a quarter extra clemency . |
| 28 | The extra cost of a harder and more lasting cutting edge was a wise investment — warriors would have had little time to re-sharpen their blades in the heat of battle ! |
| 29 | Could have had three times twelve it does n't matter which ones |
| 30 | The Executive Committee discussed the case at several further meetings and decided to re-examine it when Black 's solicitor should have had more time to ascertain the prospects of money compensation from the government for the injuries . |