Example sentences of "[modal v] have [vb pp] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mr. Paris , you should have left more time . |
| 2 | The Executive Committee discussed the case at several further meetings and decided to re-examine it when Black 's solicitor should have had more time to ascertain the prospects of money compensation from the government for the injuries . |
| 3 | Instead of taking a Gadarene rush at this important matter of the reform of local government finance , the Government should have taken more time . |
| 4 | Must have happened some time after Buchanan and his sidekick came here . |
| 5 | I mean did you ever have time for dances , and going to the pictures and that kind of thing , I mean you must have found some time ? |
| 6 | However quickly he may have acted , the actual taking of the handbag must have taken more time than seems to have been available — since Eddie Stratton and Shirley Brown were seen walking out of The Randolph almost immediately , if the evidence of at least two of you here is to be believed , the evidence of Mr Brown and Mrs Roscoe . |
| 7 | That 's a win lose , you might 've lost that time but you 're gon na get it back another time . |
| 8 | ‘ Poor thing , ’ she might have said another time , but now any sympathy she had for the machine was swamped by her fears for her children . |
| 9 | Could have gone any time with with nothing through his bloody arteries ! |
| 10 | I would have done better if I 'd have had more time . |
| 11 | Singer John Matthews says : ‘ If we 'd have spent more time on the record we probably would have ruined it . ’ |
| 12 | Although responders may be biased towards independent , articulate individuals in employment , unemployed people may have had more time to reply , and this is supported by a higher response rate among women , who had a lower employment rate . |
| 13 | ‘ I ca n't recall it ever happening in any association affiliated to the IBA before , although it may have happened some time ago , ’ added the former Irish international player . |
| 14 | ‘ I ca n't recall it ever happening in any association affiliated to the IBA before , although it may have happened some time ago , ’ added the former Irish international player . |
| 15 | Pigs may have spent some time with the swineherd in the distant woodland , but part of the wood would have been cropped for fuel , poles , wood for repairs to buildings , fences , implements and so on , while a few trees may have been cut down for constructional work on the bridge over the Yeo or to build a new house . |
| 16 | Every broken marriage , every wrecked career must have one , in some form or another , and doubtless career and marriage might have drifted aimlessly on together for a few more years if the sea had been clear of Carlas , but it would have ended some time or other , and possibly with a lot more pain than there was now . |
| 17 | I would have saved much time and pain if I had paid more attention to how I was racing . |
| 18 | I was , as you might imagine , a little taken aback by this request and ordinarily the matter might have been one I would have spent some time pondering . |
| 19 | Perhaps you and I would have spent more time together . |
| 20 | The extra cost of a harder and more lasting cutting edge was a wise investment — warriors would have had little time to re-sharpen their blades in the heat of battle ! |
| 21 | Erm I suppose got here a bit later you would have had more time to sort this lot out . |
| 22 | Either arbitration or litigation would have taken more time and cost more money than a successful reference to an expert . |
| 23 | Whereas years ago , it would have taken some time for that come by by which time it was no longer news , and people shrugged their shoulders and say well , |
| 24 | They will have lost little time if we do decide that they are too specialist . |
| 25 | Many others , however , will have retired some time ago , and will not have sufficient resources . |
| 26 | No doubt he sees this as a stage in his learning to win again , but all the time , he is learning instead to derive small satisfactions from losing — a skill he will have discarded some time before he won the Weembledon ( he really did pronounce it like that ) Junior Championship , all of 20 years ago . |
| 27 | I know Howard Wilkinson was disappointed at the delivery in the first leg and , if I know him , Leeds will have spent some time since working to make sure those balls count next time . |
| 28 | To produce so many papers jointly , plus scores more separately , during 1985 through 1988 can have left little time for intensive work on the test-tube fusion project . ’ |