Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [det] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relationship between the Hague Convention and the other methods of obtaining evidence abroad provided for in the United States Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and comparable State rules has occupied much judicial time . |
| 2 | The county of Gloucestershire has seen some turbulent times over the centuries , not least of them in the present one . |
| 3 | The government is not averse to pump priming book provision and has done this three times in the last six years , for the introduction of the GCSE examination , for acquisitions in university libraries and , most recently , for books for the National Curriculum . |
| 4 | By contrast , a ‘ Solarz for President ’ campaign sounds improbable : the congressman has spent much more time in Asia than in Iowa . |
| 5 | ‘ But I have had by far the better of the deal because the consultancy advice I have had from her has outweighed that ten times over . |
| 6 | It 's does n't matter but Ian has suggested that next time we appoint a treasurer who has the account |
| 7 | Sometimes they 'd fuck right away , or sometimes they 'd wait till they were about to leave , but they 'd always do it on the sheet , the same sheet he 'd brought that first time , as if , without it , some spell might be broken and everything would fall apart . |
| 8 | He 'd repeated several more times that everything the boy had said was drunken nonsense . |
| 9 | She could have done that any time these past four years . |
| 10 | Why could n't I have had that last time ! |
| 11 | Now he lied to the housing department about having lived all that time with an old aunt , since dead , and got a friend who kept a garage in the dead woman 's street to swear to having seen him there daily . |
| 12 | She smiled , suddenly the woman he had met that first time , laughing and self-confident , all depths , all subtleties gone from her . |
| 13 | You , you 've done this fourteen times |
| 14 | This was , she knew , thinking back to what the astrologer had said all that time ago in London , the blaze that had been ignited and over which she had no control . |
| 15 | Yeah Oh we 've got more this time |
| 16 | They 've got most most times I think you 'll have to be unemployed for six months . |
| 17 | at least you 've got some free time . |
| 18 | When I 've got some more time I 'm going to offer my services again . |
| 19 | Billy had been a close friend for over a year now and they had had some good times together . |
| 20 | You 've had that all time though Ju , ai n't you ? |
| 21 | ‘ Think of all the people we shall meet , and the places we 'll go to , and the things we shall do ! we 've had some good times at Pinehurst , I know , but think of being free ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been back to London a few times in the last year , and I 've had some great times there , ’ she enthused . |
| 23 | I 've had some hard times mhm . |
| 24 | ‘ I know we 've had some bad times recently and a lot of it 's been my fault . |
| 25 | I 've spent all this time trying to make up my mind . |
| 26 | So , of course , we were getting a little bit panicky cos what 's worrying me , and it still worries me again we 've put all this time and effort in they may pay us alright , we 've got this twenty , they may pay us a second payment , but are they gon na pay up on the third ? |
| 27 | They 've lasted all this time . |
| 28 | We bachelors have had many good times together , and we shall have more . |
| 29 | ‘ It does n't sound as if she 's got much spare time . ’ |
| 30 | And it 's taken all this time , it 's gone to court and all the rest of it , and they have n't got a case . |