Example sentences of "[pron] had the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should try it myself if only I had the time . ’ |
| 2 | In fact , if I had the time and money I would pre-bait every morning and evening . |
| 3 | Dick described his part in the restoration project as ‘ chase and race ’ — ‘ I wish I had the time to do the mechanical work , I like that , but I did the parts sourcing and chasing and telephone calls . |
| 4 | ‘ I wish I had the time . |
| 5 | He said that if I had the time and the inclination he would be grateful if I would sort through the material , put the scores in chronological order to one side and throw out ‘ the rubbish ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Sure — if I had the time . ’ |
| 7 | Cos it 's months before I had the time . |
| 8 | And Sid had said , ‘ If I had the time I could write down some of the things I 've seen that you would n't believe . ’ |
| 9 | Teacher says it 's disgraceful But even if I had the time , I feel too tired . |
| 10 | I thought of the stack of dirty crocks to tackle after tea , of pictures and furniture that were once polished every week , and now got done when I had the time . |
| 11 | I should like to speak longer , because the hon. Member for Islington , South and Finsbury ( Mr. Smith ) spoke about the losses that he envisages would be incurred by the development of the station at King 's Cross , and if I had the time I should love to expand on the economic benefits that could be achieved in employment terms , the environmental benefits that would accrue to the area and the safety benefits that would be brought about by the Fennell provisions in the Bill . |
| 12 | when I had the time , did them all tension and set , you know , but erm , as you say now , they probably cost you about fifty pound a go every time they go away |
| 13 | She had the time right — he just was n't here . |
| 14 | When asked about the factors which influenced how and where they shopped , many older people said they would be ready to pay a little more for their purchases at shops which provided places to sit down , had lavatories and employed staff members who had the time and inclination to help them . |
| 15 | A regular checkup once or twice a year with a GP who had the time , the energy , and the resources to advise on preventative medicine as an integral part of the National Health Service , may have protected me from a heart attack . |
| 16 | The heroes you have kind of linger on from a prior period when only a few records passed through your life , when you had the time to get fixated , spend weeks living inside a record . |
| 17 | Here is a list of leisure activities : tick the items you enjoy or would like to do if you had the time or the opportunity . |
| 18 | Standards in areas perhaps you wish you had the time to teach employees yourself . |
| 19 | The pre-Society Talyllyn Railway tickets are a study in themselves , if you had the time . |
| 20 | But when Grandma died he just lost all interest in the garden , and since no one had the time to take it on , it became neglected . |
| 21 | Kate Collingwood , writing as tutor-organiser for Essex with a Federation Executive highly committed to voluntary participation , felt that ‘ any of my organising work could be done by voluntary branch members if they had the time . |
| 22 | And they had the time worked out for every policeman the length of time he was allowed to travel from court to home and back again and you added that time to the time you were engaged in court and it was worked out to the minute — worked out officially how long it took the tram . |
| 23 | If they had the time they 'd have cut words or letters out of magazines . |
| 24 | Indeed , they would do so , if only they had the time or resources or if the entire teaching staff could agree to abandon lectures simultaneously . |
| 25 | She played with the children in their street when they had the time which was n't often and with diplomatic children , a cosmopolitan lot , like mine , only that Constanza was gang-leader . |
| 26 | It is therefore difficult to train such staff , even if they had the time and inclination to practise the skills necessary . |
| 27 | His comedy went into those Welsh and newly minted theatrical stories at Oxford where he had the time of his life . |
| 28 | His head was full of sentences he was going to write to Hilary when he had the time to put pen to paper : I may remind you that I never asked you for a penny towards the summer gas bill … do you think I am made of stone ? … surely I deserve better consideration … who listened for hours when you had that disagreement at Bromley over Fortescue upstaging you in She Stoops to Conquer … have you forgotten that it was I , when your mother had her second stroke , who travelled with her in the ambulance and went back on the bus to collect her plaster replica of the Sacred Heart ? |
| 29 | At least he would have hot water that night when he returned home — if he had the time to return home . |
| 30 | He leapt over Mr Slipper and was climbing the shelves before anyone had the time to realise what was happening . |