Example sentences of "i 've [vb pp] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 As I 've said many times before , pressure is only a condition of the mind .
2 And I do n't mean I 'm bending them , but there were some , as I 've said many times , a lot of silly people refereeing in speedway , and thank goodness now , ninety nine per cent of them are being sensible and we 're seeing some good refereeing .
3 I 've said that time and again .
4 If I 've written to the Council once about that front door , I 've written fifty times .
5 Yes I 've phoned and I 've written three times and I 've written to his mother our official letter , official no headed notepaper she 's not there , she works as a nurse does n't she ?
6 I mean , I 've detoxed six times now and I never have any problems coming off smack .
7 I 've apologised many times for what happened that night .
8 This is a favourite recipe from a friend of mine ; a quick and delicious snack which I 've enjoyed many times .
9 I can read you like a book — some book I 've read six times already .
10 I 'VE HAD TERRIBLE TIMES in many of the world 's beauty spots : angst-ridden in Anguilla , miserable as sin in Mexico , suicidal in Sicily , bored out of my brains in Barcelona .
11 I 've had one time sheet yet that has n't been cut up , the last two or three months .
12 I suppose , in theory , I 've had worse times , but not many , and not much worse .
13 Since I retired I 've had more time on my hands and I pass it , you might say , in reading and reflection on my area of interest .
14 Well , I 've had tougher times .
15 I think I 've had enough time in school .
16 I 've had some time to check this Dream , ’ she said .
17 Downstairs in our reception we have a community tank that I 've mentioned many times .
18 They have n't always been National Anthems , it 's a relatively new thing , erm , I 've mentioned Elizabethan times , about four hundred years ago .
19 ‘ Okay I 've cried three times in my adult life , ’ he finally admits : ‘ When my sons were born and when my mother died .
20 I have n't really had a vacation , this is the first time I 've taken some time off and I barely got here ; just because of the pace of the world , especially last year .
21 I 've tried three times to see Mr he was n't available .
22 Went to look up her reading , they said had to pay I 've used three times as much gas as I did three times as much gas as I needed last time
23 I 've spent some time in the Far East . ’
24 Through Michael Jaffé I 've spent some time at the Hamilton Kerr conservation centre near Cambridge .
25 Because I 've spent more time trying it .
26 I 've spent enough time watching her paint me ! ’
27 ‘ And now I 've spent enough time here — I have clients to see . ’
28 So I 've got a two there I 'll put a tick on that so I 've got two times I 've got another two so I always put my smallest ones on the left so I can find them quickly .
29 Now I 've got four times nine .
30 I 've got more time for him than either our lot or the Americans , ’ he added bitterly .
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