Example sentences of "[pron] have [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only comfort I had during this time was a farmer 's daughter in my class at school called Tina . |
| 2 | ‘ I had for some time been interested in the work of the 17th century Dutch and Spanish still-life school of painting . |
| 3 | My doctor had also prepared a report for the judge , about various medical problems which I hoped might be taken into consideration , along with the fact that I had for some time been re-building my life and now had very little to do with the lifestyle that brought me into contact with drugs . |
| 4 | I had at one time abandoned hope that the little book would ever be published , for the only copy , typed laboriously by myself , was stolen from a railway carriage on Delhi Station . |
| 5 | I had at that time , and I 'm trying to recall probably two or three people working directly for me , yes |
| 6 | You were n't of afraid of me but the accent that I had at that time . |
| 7 | I had by this time spent some years in the States , including a year living in an Anglican theological college , and had watched my friends become ordained . |
| 8 | I had by this time met the latter . |
| 9 | I have for some time studied the prospects for the privatisation of British Rail . |
| 10 | Augmentations are worth searching out , for there is many a manor , grand house , or estate which has at one time been owned by an eminent person in receipt of an augmentation of one kind or another — and there is almost certainly a good tale to tell . |
| 11 | A child is not to be taken as having a learning difficulty solely because the language ( or form of the language ) in which he is or will be taught is different from a language ( or from of language ) which has at any time been spoken in the house . |
| 12 | that he or she is or has been a director of a company which has at any time become insolvent ( whether while he or she was a director or subsequently ) ; and |
| 13 | They came to the bank of the stream which had for some time been running unseen beside them . |
| 14 | We received a call from the hospital , which had by this time received the results of the X-rays . |
| 15 | The result is that there are books on many library shelves which have at one time been declared obscene or indecent and may be so categorized again . |
| 16 | Conversely , where existing competition is light and the traditional catchment area of the firm large , a wide restraint may be expected to be upheld ; and ( 4 ) a prohibition against accepting instructions from any person who has at any time , or over a long period , been a client of the outgoing partner 's former firm . |
| 17 | She was sitting back relaxedly and looking more contented than she had for some time . |
| 18 | He recalled tales about her , that she had at one time belonged to a respectable family of farmers ; unbelievable now , for she could certainly no longer be placed in that category . |
| 19 | Feeling closer to him than she had at any time since her mother 's death , Rory hid her face against his shoulder . |
| 20 | However , she had by that time passed her eightieth birthday . |
| 21 | She had by that time , however , had a whole week in which to do quite a lot of thinking . |
| 22 | Jeremy Taylor , who had at one time been chaplain to Archbishop Laud , was no Calvinist . |
| 23 | Even nobles who had at one time covertly recommended such a union were alarmed by the unseemly haste , and realized that in any case the tide of national opinion was against the match . |
| 24 | He had at one time used the property as a guest house and a number of people , who had at one time or another resided in the guest house , had become friends of his . |
| 25 | This leads to a further conclusion that these wares were brought to the site by the Catuvellauni , who had at that time embarked on westward expansion . |
| 26 | Gervold , abbot of St Wandrille , who had for some time supervised the exaction of tolls at various Channel ports ( particularly Quentovic ) and established cordial relations with Offa , evidently mollified Charlemagne and a trade embargo was not maintained . |
| 27 | This lot have been brought into the barn for a rest , ’ indicating with his hand the others who had by this time fallen asleep , oblivious to the noise of the guns and the explosions very close to the barn . |
| 28 | We may regret we live in a permissive society but I doubt whether even the most staunch defender of a better age would maintain that all or even most of those who have at one time or in one way or another been led astray morally have thereby become depraved or corrupt " . |
| 29 | In the event that you have at any time during the currency of your appointment any grievance concerning your appointment with the Board then you should raise that with your line manager . |
| 30 | So when we came to make the recording in Vienna I asked Strauss through a mutual friend we had at that time if I could use a fuller body of strings in the climaxes . |