Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [vb pp] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they approached , Corbett realised the fortifications of Earlston were a square tower of pleasing proportions within a stockade or peel which Corbett had seen many times on his journeys into Scotland . |
| 2 | She was taking a gamble , already Hari had spent precious time and materials making footwear that might never be bought and paid for . |
| 3 | Yet Barclays and Lloyds have spent much time and energy privately rubbishing Switch , in efforts to promote their own debit cards . |
| 4 | Lineker has appeared 45 times for England and scored 29 goals ; Bull has played for 60 minutes and scored one , a smartly taken opportunity against Scotland in May . |
| 5 | Saunders has scored eight times and Villa have n't lost a game since his £2.3 million move from Liverpool . |
| 6 | The travellers knew some of the stories , for Tara had met many Time Travellers , and the tales had echoed back . |
| 7 | Henry , the Marquess of Flaxton had known hard times . |
| 8 | Over the past year Alastair has spent more time cycling , putting in up to 150 miles a week . |
| 9 | Walter Last has spent some time developing a system for cutting the compound angles on the segments for his turning |
| 10 | The manner of his election was dubious in the extreme ; Gallus had spent much time at the court of Theuderic , but at the time of Quintianus 's death he was in Clermont ; while the citizens were trying to decide on a new candidate the Holy Spirit descended on Gallus , according to his relative Gregory , and on the advice of his uncle Inpetratus he set off and presented himself to Theuderic , who authorized his consecration . |
| 11 | Since then , senior representatives of General Motors , Ford and Chrysler have met several times administration officials led by the president 's science adviser , John Gibbons , and Deputy Secretary of Commerce-designate John Rollwagen . |
| 12 | The next stage in the economic shock therapy will be freeing energy prices , which Mr Yeltsin has postponed several times for fear of a popular outcry . |
| 13 | Poet and painter Adrian Henri has spent much time in Dieppe and its environs . |
| 14 | In recent years , the United Kingdom has attracted five times as much Japanese investment as Germany or France , which powerfully demonstrates that we have created the most attractive environment in Europe for investors . |
| 15 | The warmest reception from the audience went to Edward Williams , a hill farmer from Gwynedd whose personal radiation measurement in the aftermath of Chernobyl had registered ten times the normal level . |
| 16 | Do n't think about it , just get up , like Uncle Jamie had done that time out hunting , broken arm and all . |
| 17 | ‘ Lewis has reneged six times to fight me , ’ claimed Bowe . |
| 18 | The move , a cost-cutting measure Pick has employed several times in the past , halves the company to 30 or so , leaving Pick with its development core and about five salespeople . |
| 19 | The move , a cost-cutting measure Pick has employed several times in the past , halves the company to thirtysomething , leaving Pick with its development core and about five sales people . |
| 20 | On the very day of the dinner Charlotte Poole was writing in her journal : ‘ We are shocked to hear that Mr. Thelwall has spent some time at Stowey this week with Mr. Coleridge , and consequently with Tom Poole . |
| 21 | Since Mr Clinton has said many times that he will not send ground troops to Bosnia until there is peace , the protection he has in mind will presumably consist of air power , no more . |
| 22 | Müller had wasted enough time . |
| 23 | So great had his concentration been on finishing the maps that Green had had little time to do anything else in those difficult years excepting for a brief visit to Buttermere in 1791 , and in 1793 he went to Wales and the Lake District with his stalwart helper Thornton ; but in 1794 he revisited Cumberland for twelve weeks two of which were devoted to Buttermere . |
| 24 | Peter had won three times already and had been unlucky not to make it a fourth title the year before . |
| 25 | Since the Risorgimento in the nineteenth century , when the movement for political unification had taken place , Italy had experienced hard times and many political humiliations , so in 1929 , when Mussolini ended the friction between the Church and the State by signing a concordat with the Vatican , most people really believed that the country was destined for a great future . |
| 26 | Vulcanologists said Mayon had erupted 26 times during yesterday 's 11 daylight hours — well up on the 15 eruptions in the previous 13 hours . |
| 27 | Goering had noted many times before that the fatter and more powerful he got , the more attractive women found him . |
| 28 | Mr Farquharson claimed in a recent interview in the Sun that Miss Bonham-Carter had replied four times to his letters and sent him a signed photo with a kiss . |
| 29 | Christine Mills had called several times to say she wanted to see the chief inspector urgently because she had ‘ something very important ’ to tell her about the death of her father . |
| 30 | Even for the northern regional championships the players at Cleveland Spastics Centre in Middlesbrough had trained five times a week . |