Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] much time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry Bordes-Pages , spokesman on research for the white-collar union CGG says : ‘ The government has spent too much time on debates . |
| 2 | Assuming that the Congress , which has wasted so much time so far , does not get round to final approval of any of the versions of the constitution , Mr Yeltsin could either wait until its next scheduled meeting in the autumn , seeking a compromise with parliament . |
| 3 | Well , I 'd had so much time on the sick , they put me on half pay . |
| 4 | I 'd spent so much time on my own , sitting watching birds , or reading about them or drawing them , that I did n't make many friends , and those I had took second place to the birds . |
| 5 | Having lavished so much time , money and effort on their house , you might expect it to be a work of art — which , as Peter modestly admits , ‘ It is . ’ |
| 6 | You can make do with string , but having spent so much time and care on creating a perfect picture , you might be somewhat annoyed if it fell to the floor and smashed because the string had broken ! |
| 7 | Madam may feel that having spent so much time in custody for the first offence that he has already suffered sufficient punishment , he 's been kept away from his girlfriend and children , and under those circumstances I would urge you Madam to take a lenient course of action , to make him the subject of a conditional discharge . |
| 8 | These men , either forgetting or not realising that work is but a component of life and not a reason for it , are likely to have spent too much time working , to the exclusion of family and leisure activities . |
| 9 | I always have and always will , and we seem to have wasted so much time . ’ |
| 10 | I 've devoted so much time and energy to creating Tessa and it feels marvellous that it 's actually come off , ’ she says taking a big puff on her roll-up . |
| 11 | It was no coincidence , perhaps , that its president was the Marquess of Salisbury , married to Mollie Salisbury who had spent so much time helping with the garden at Highgrove . |
| 12 | She was here , the very person he had spent so much time and energy and money tracking down . |
| 13 | It was typical of the man who had spent so much time in Four Marks working for the community . |
| 14 | They had to walk down the long straight street past Shea 's pub with its sour smell of drink coming out on to the street from behind its dark windows , past Birdie Mac 's sweet shop where they had spent so much time choosing from jars all their school life . |
| 15 | She turned and surveyed the room that was always hers when she visited Thomas , its architectural simplicity , the reassuring certainty of the heavy polished wood , the playful cubes and rectangles of the little Feininger villages which she had spent so much time dreaming over in the past . |
| 16 | He had spent so much time with Eloise that he felt he must make love to his wife that night , however tired he felt . |
| 17 | Claudia lay sleepless , visions of Dana jiving at the head of the bridal procession , dressed in shorts and a veil instead of the lovely dress Claudia had spent so much time designing , going through her head . |
| 18 | They had spent so much time together , but hardly knew each other . |
| 19 | Nobody had spoken of this new responsible attitude , because to do so would be to admit that his behaviour had previously left something to be desired , and my mother had spent too much time in implicit denial of this to waste it all now . |
| 20 | Perhaps the conservatism of his views in 1857 derived from the fact that he had spent too much time studying the narrow-minded documents bequeathed by Nicholas I. In 1858 he was certainly impressed by The Bell , by reports of the disturbances in Estonia , and by his correspondence with Evgenii Obolenskii ( one of the three Decembrists of Kaluga ) . |
| 21 | I 've spent too much time with you . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ The only reason we 've spent so much time making love is to stop me talking about business , ’ she complained with an unabashed grin . |
| 23 | ‘ We 've wasted so much time . ’ |
| 24 | I 'm snowed under with work and I 've taken too much time off to be with you . |
| 25 | That crack penetrated , but I had wasted too much time to deal with it . |
| 26 | The CPV had made a number of errors in the past ; it had taken too much time setting forth the initial stage of the transitional period to socialism and had made " many mistakes " in reforming prices , wages and money and in ideological and organizational tasks . |
| 27 | This is why all those scientists have given so much time and effort to such apparent trivia as Fermat 's Last Theorem and the advance of Mercury 's perihelion . |
| 28 | Darling Mother , I have let too much time pass without writing , but I have n't forgotten you . |
| 29 | I have spent so much time on the status consciousness explanation because it has been very influential , and because Nichols shows how it can be reinterpreted with more satisfactory results . |