Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have [vb pp] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no sign of the son , an undersized , sly creature who had spent more time in prison than out of it ever since he had been old enough to get himself down to the city and into trouble . |
| 2 | This showed that in practice relatively few , one in ten , of those who had spent any time in residential homes were thought to have been admitted ‘ too late ’ ; this proportion was a quarter for those who had not spent any time in a residential home . |
| 3 | Only one symptom , a persistent cough , was reported more often for those who had not been in a residential home — 24 per cent compared with 10 per cent of those who had spent some time in such a home . |
| 4 | Almost nine tenths , 88 per cent , of the people who had spent some time in a residential home were said to have had access to a telephone where they could make calls and people could telephone them . |
| 5 | Sylvia Hayes , an artist who had spent some time painting in Orkney , came from Oxford to show her support for the four families . |
| 6 | The dominance of London in the country has been reflected in the interests of historians , who have devoted more time to it than to provincial centres , although recent work has done something to redress the balance . |
| 7 | Their meaning is not easily grasped by those who have spent some time studying the Christian faith , and yet the church still presents these complicated extracts from the Bible and the ASB to people who may never have heard the name of God spoken reverently before , and who are searching for some germ of belief to help them understand the vacuum created by the death of the person they love . |
| 8 | We 'll come back to you if we ca n't find somebody who 's got more time I guess . |