Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only I 'd had more time . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | I had discovered some time ago that he had loved Claudia Cohn-Casson . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This worried me because I could not make out what I had done this time to annoy her . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I had spent some time on a camping/cycling holiday with my family in the West country . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I 've said that time and again . |
| 11 | Since I retired I 've had more time on my hands and I pass it , you might say , in reading and reflection on my area of interest . |
| 12 | I think I 've had enough time in school . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've had some time to check this Dream , ’ she said . |
| 14 | I have n't really had a vacation , this is the first time I 've taken some time off and I barely got here ; just because of the pace of the world , especially last year . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've spent some time in the Far East . ’ |
| 16 | Through Michael Jaffé I 've spent some time at the Hamilton Kerr conservation centre near Cambridge . |
| 17 | Because I 've spent more time trying it . |
| 18 | I 've spent enough time watching her paint me ! ’ |
| 19 | ‘ And now I 've spent enough time here — I have clients to see . ’ |
| 20 | I 've got more time for him than either our lot or the Americans , ’ he added bitterly . |
| 21 | I have devoted some time to the Aplysia story here , not only because of the significance of Eric Kandel 's achievement in terms of its wealth of experimental data and theoretical model building , but perhaps above all because of the place it has come to occupy , not only in the text-books , making memory research neurophysiologically respectable , but in the framing of the research field . |
| 22 | For the last year , I have had little time for writing , though I get something down on paper when I can . |
| 23 | I 'm afraid I have had little time to entertain you or introduce you to Hochhauser . |
| 24 | ‘ I have spent some time in the United States , ’ he explained . |
| 25 | Finally , the concern with manipulation means that postclassical criminology is correctionalist , as were its classical and positivist predecessors ; that is why I have spent some time , in Chapter 3 , countering anti-correctionalist arguments . |
| 26 | I have spent some time strolling awestruck inside Luci Arrighi 's magnificent , painstaking re-construction of the tunnel . |
| 27 | Complementing it is the British Coal Yearbook which offers a written record of the season and which has expanded this time to embrace the seasons in France , Australia and New Zealand . |
| 28 | During the course of this session , I repeatedly reminded her of the fact that she was seeing something which had happened some time ago and that time had proved her recovery to be complete — something which had been born out by the numerous examinations and X-rays she had since undergone . |
| 29 | That 's why badgers which have spent some time recouperating need a home of their own . |
| 30 | She 'd given more time to thinking about Lucy than anything else for months . |