Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | I knew what I 'd witnessed last time I 'd seen one of those in the possession of a malai officer . |
2 | If only I 'd had more time . |
3 | and she put on the back of this one she was thankful that at least I 'd managed this time to get the mark in the area where it should have been in the first |
4 | As for her face , it was one I had seen countless times in buses and supermarkets , dole queues and pubs , waiting outside schools or factories , at all ages from fifteen to fifty . |
5 | I had fallen many times and could not control the wheelbarrow unless I was close enough for my legs to bang into it . |
6 | This was a vehicle with all mod cons at the rear of the bus , which I had followed many times and checked on its progress flying over the route ; oddly enough , on my last night in Mespot I was to sleep in the Imperial Airways rest fort at Rutbah Wells , I had refuelled there many times and had wondered with awe at the vast ugly route-flying Imperial aircraft — Handley Page HP42s — and even more so at the passengers who took an even greater interest in our tiny single-engined Wapiti aircraft , and furthermore asked endless questions about our aircraft and of our life in Baghdad . |
7 | I went through the drill that I had taught many times to my students , and with a little sideslip brought John 's creation back to earth . |
8 | ‘ I had noticed some time ago that the shoemaker had a beautiful daughter and the more I saw of her , the more I liked her . ’ |
9 | I had discovered some time ago that he had loved Claudia Cohn-Casson . |
10 | It had been awkward for me to ask our family doctor to prescribe it : he knew my husband and I had parted some time ago . |
11 | As I had done several times on the journey , since I had n't entirely managed to put out of my mind the events of Uulaa and my suspicions . |
12 | This worried me because I could not make out what I had done this time to annoy her . |
13 | He was a seriouslooking Welshman whom I had met several times back in England and around the orchard . |
14 | ‘ I had holidayed several times in France and was toying with the idea of buying a house there , but with no definite plan in mind . |
15 | I could n't go back to work although I had tried several times and socializing was no fun at all . |
16 | For example in B , I had tried several times without success to contact a third-year female physics student who , it seemed , never looked in her departmental pigeonhole where I left the notes . |
17 | I think if I had had more time to myself when I first retired I would n't have made that mistake and would have looked for interests nearer home . |
18 | I had spent some time on a camping/cycling holiday with my family in the West country . |
19 | It was very different from when , during my student days , I had spent some time in the specialised wards of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases at St Pancras , where patients were treated for cholera , yellow fever , elephantiasis , malaria , leprosy , encephalitis lethargica , and a dozen other diseases that might have originated in the tropics . |
20 | As I 've said many times before , pressure is only a condition of the mind . |
21 | And I do n't mean I 'm bending them , but there were some , as I 've said many times , a lot of silly people refereeing in speedway , and thank goodness now , ninety nine per cent of them are being sensible and we 're seeing some good refereeing . |
22 | I 've said that time and again . |
23 | If I 've written to the Council once about that front door , I 've written fifty times . |
24 | Yes I 've phoned and I 've written three times and I 've written to his mother our official letter , official no headed notepaper she 's not there , she works as a nurse does n't she ? |
25 | I mean , I 've detoxed six times now and I never have any problems coming off smack . |
26 | I 've apologised many times for what happened that night . |
27 | This is a favourite recipe from a friend of mine ; a quick and delicious snack which I 've enjoyed many times . |
28 | I can read you like a book — some book I 've read six times already . |
29 | I 'VE HAD TERRIBLE TIMES in many of the world 's beauty spots : angst-ridden in Anguilla , miserable as sin in Mexico , suicidal in Sicily , bored out of my brains in Barcelona . |
30 | I 've had one time sheet yet that has n't been cut up , the last two or three months . |