Example sentences of "have [verb] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early studies we chose to look at them twenty-four hours after training on the grounds that any structural change would take time to build up , ; more recently he has pushed the earliest time at which changes can be found back to as little as an hour after the bird pecks the bead . |
| 2 | to wonder whether I 'd got the right time . |
| 3 | In fact , rather better than he 'd seemed the last time I 'd seen him . |
| 4 | He 'd gone the last time , he reminded her , because of Lowell 's hands — well , partly . |
| 5 | ‘ I think a real friend is someone you do n't have to see the whole time . |
| 6 | Yes , there 's definitely there some proving , mind you , you 'll have to pick the right time of day , do you know what I mean ? |
| 7 | However this difference might not have reflected the additional time taken to draw an inference in the indirect antecedent condition , but rather that there was repetition of a noun in the direct antecedent condition but not in the indirect antecedent condition . |
| 8 | Her coach , Ian Threadgill , said : ‘ We 've got to be delighted with that without the wind she would easily have got the qualifying time . ’ |
| 9 | While some infants may go uncomplaining through the night without feeding by the age of two months they will not have spent the whole time asleep . |
| 10 | Bingley 's Richard Nerurkar , who finished second , should join him in the team , having achieved the qualifying time in the World Championships last year , but third-placed Paul Evans must decide whether to chase it in Europe before the team is finalised on June 28 . |
| 11 | Even today , tourists may see the claw-marks on a stone where Big Ears was said to have appeared the last time this ceremony was performed . |
| 12 | Blisters which had formed the first time now burst , weeping clear fluid onto the burner which hissed like an angry snake . |
| 13 | She was n't scared , not even when she was half-way up the path , dark yews all around her , and heard the sound she had heard the first time . |
| 14 | I 've forgotten the last time we really enjoyed ourselves together and sat down to a meal uninterrupted by telephone calls . ’ |
| 15 | The reins were in one piece ; no one had noticed the previous time , he 'd been able to make an extra hole and buckle them . |
| 16 | Even more so than he had done the previous time , I said did n't you hear this about this at the station meeting and he said it had n't been brought up . |
| 17 | These hijras are very bad and very dirty ladies , ’ he had said the first time I tried to give Razia a lift in his car . |
| 18 | For a split second he experienced that same numbing fear he had felt the first time he had come under enemy fire . |
| 19 | Tsu Ma knelt down and held his shoulders , nodding , remembering how he had felt the first time he had seen the ritual , not then knowing what was happening , nor why . |
| 20 | no , but we now know that , if it , if I 've got the right time , half past twelve 's fine |
| 21 | And we talked of the Red Fort and how Pakeezah had cried the first time she went around it as a schoolgirl . |
| 22 | They were the same colours-the same jewels — as those he had worn the first time they had met . |
| 23 | She was wearing the coat with all the buttons and buckles that she had worn the first time I saw her outside Kaama 's flat . |
| 24 | Poor Martinho , almost his portly self again , had spent the whole time with at least one gun in his back . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've spent the whole time trying to convince myself it could never work between us , ’ he went on , as though she had n't spoken . |
| 26 | I had remembered the last time I had stood in a garden with a man . |
| 27 | START number 13 proved unlucky for American skier A J Kitt , with the season 's first World Cup downhill at Val d'Isere abandoned due to bad weather after he had set the best time . |
| 28 | ‘ By the time I had scored the third time I did n't feel tired . |
| 29 | They dragged me to the Police Station where I had to make a detailed statement of everything that had happened the first time intercourse took place . |
| 30 | What had happened the first time ? |