Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the most positivist anthropologist , knowing the statistical significance of categories of population , would not have been immune from a romantic curiosity , would perhaps have spent more time visiting this wastefully subsidized relic of the past than a cool assessment of scientific value could warrant . |
| 2 | We had ‘ dropped the ball ’ and in doing so had lost valuable time in the search for a reliable synthetic antimalarial' . |
| 3 | The authors accept that the course may not have given adequate time to practical skills , but the participants ' inaccurate view of their own skills contributed to their lack of success . |
| 4 | Erm he will not have asked that time honoured question do you have a car otherwise he knows what er |
| 5 | We get out of the car , stomp round to the wheel , look at it , kick it , swear , look at our watch , feel guilty about not having left enough time to cope with the unexpected , open the boot , bang our head on it , swear again , wonder whether it would n't be better to walk to the phone , decide to change the wheel ourselves , lose one of the nuts and eventually arrive at the meeting half an hour late in a filthy temper , and take up the next five minutes explaining that it must have been a sharp chipping off one of those construction lorries and they overload them to save money and they ought to do something about it … |
| 6 | He was another ‘ if only ’ character , who nevertheless had played several times in the Ryder Cup against the USA with distinction . |
| 7 | At the same time , men usually have got full time jobs , as well ! |
| 8 | In order to do this , he or she has to have considerable experience of the advertising business , and may well have spent some time working for a client company . |
| 9 | Surely there 'd been too little time , but then her father would n't have needed much time , would he ? |
| 10 | As England 's leading batsman of the 1980s he has borne a heavy responsibility and perhaps because of this has never completely fulfilled his potential ; few batsmen can have been blessed with so much natural ability , yet he often looks vulnerable until he has settled down and even then has succumbed countless times to an infuriating nibble or waft outside the off stump . |
| 11 | The sojourn at Swanage seems indeed to have held magic times for the couple only a few months wed , in those days before the later estrangement . |