Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [det] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time after time , people would slowly open a drawer and give me something they knew perfectly well they 'd had all the time I 'd been visiting them and talking to them , but the moment was now right . |
| 2 | I saw now what I 'd known all the time , only I 'd hidden it craftily from myself because it did n't fit in with what I wanted to do , that Terry and I had no basis for a love-affair ; we were friends who happened to be attracted to each other physically , which was far from enough , and by thinking it was enough we 'd gone against the very nature of our relationship . |
| 3 | I could have forgotten all the times we had enjoyed together , where we 'd been , what we 'd done ? |
| 4 | He had been batting steadily and was well set , and since England , 328 ahead with three wickets left , were apparently in control they should have used all the time available to build up their score . |
| 5 | Mr Major therefore made a stab at the second — though it might seem that after 11 years in office , Mrs Thatcher 's radical government should have had all the time it needed for tax reform . |
| 6 | Certainly Mike had all the time in the world to launch a right hook , but Patsy also must have had all the time in the world to see it , for he simply swayed back on his heels and the punch missed by over a foot . |
| 7 | Finally , after going full circle , AIB finished up in 1983 in the Department of Transport which seems to me to be where it should have remained all the time . |
| 8 | We 've got all the time in the world . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 've got all the time in the world . ’ |
| 10 | As Carter opened the door Munro added , ‘ We 've got all the time in the world , Jack . |
| 11 | And you 've had all the time in the world it takes to dial seven digits . |
| 12 | ‘ You 've had all the time I can give , ’ he said tightly . |
| 13 | She had tried to explain this feeling to Gay and Felicity , when they had come out of the Jade Cockatoo on their last night together ; but she had known all the time that it was n't a thing that could be explained . |
| 14 | Maxine told me that she had known all the time that she was her twentieth-century self and that she was sitting in a comfortable chair in my consulting room . |
| 15 | They had quarrelled all the time and his mum had slammed out and left all the washing-up in the sink which he and Gary had to do when they ran out of plates . |
| 16 | says I wan na go away for the weekend , so I 've changed all the times , no he does n't , oh , he said . |
| 17 | That brings me onto another point which is made in the panel 's submission that people have talked all the time about the limits of traffic management on the A sixty one as if the objective of traffic management was to get through Harrogate quicker . |
| 18 | So that perhaps all I have done in twenty-five years is to find out something which I have known all the time . |