Example sentences of "he have [vb pp] [det] time " in BNC.
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1 | He has said many times that he does n't believe American public opinion will withstand the return of a lot of body bags . |
2 | Thirty five today , there would be no better birthday present than the sort of start he has made each time he won here — a 66 in 1980 and a 68 in 1983 . |
3 | Peter : What he 's done today is buy himself a little time , his troubles are n't over , Mrs Thatcher still casts her shadow over this conference he still has problems inside and outside the cabinet but he has bought some time . |
4 | This personal stamp is partly created by the unique range of Burrows ’ influences — British folk dance from his training at the Royal Ballet School , ballet itself , and at the opposite extreme the minimal , unburnished style of Rosemary Butcher , with whom he has performed several times . |
5 | In this they were wrong , for he has shown many times that he can fight as well as anyone . |
6 | Property expert Kevin Dibben said : ‘ It 's a nice house but he has spent more time and effort on the property than it is worth . |
7 | It is a movement he has used many times and which is perhaps seen at its best in the pas de deux to the Meditation from Thai-s created for Anthony Dowell and Antoinette Sibley ; in A Month in the Country when Natalia dances with the Tutor to express her emotions ; and in Les Deux Pigeons in the final pas de deux , when the Young Man has returned to The Girl and tenderly dances with her in his arms ( see page 83 ) . |
8 | Looping the loop at a Manchester airshow as he 'd done many times before in the vintage Spitfire … pilot David Moore from Horsley near Stroud misjudged the manoeuvere . |
9 | She had always suspected that he 'd had little time for any brain power that she might possess — just as she had always known that her chief value for him had been the almost instantaneous sexual desire they had felt for each other . |
10 | He 'd had more time to think , to get used to this slightly absurd rapture . |
11 | He flipped open the book whose pages were filled with her beautiful , careful script , which he had seen many times on the shopping lists which she had made up under Matey 's instructions . |
12 | He said he had asked many times before , but he needed to tell me something first . |
13 | He had realised some time before that he was becoming more and more attracted to her . |
14 | Perhaps it was because she went to an early Mass to have breakfast ready for them when they returned ; but she did n't like lying in bed in the mornings anyway , and as he had said many times ( admittedly without great enthusiasm ) they could quite easily go to Mass together , and wait a lit–de longer for breakfast . |
15 | A German Ambassador once remarked to the author at a conference that he had referred several times to his constituents , ‘ whereas we in Germany believe in institutions ’ . |
16 | Jonathon knew he had less than two miles to go and that his faithful horse would trudge him home as he had done many times before . |
17 | So was the ghostly passenger preparing to embark on another train journey as he had done many times during his life on earth ? |
18 | Billy could easily have ferried her across the river in his boat , as he had done many times before . |
19 | He felt he had wasted enough time on the editor , and replied with asperity : ‘ How should I know ? |
20 | He had taken some time off yesterday morning to take Azor , and incidentally her , for a long walk . |
21 | He had known some time before . |
22 | It was an invitation from Rupert Stonebird to the dinner party he had mentioned some time ago . |
23 | And both , but most often my grandmother , would speak of her brother , Nethan ( Nathaniel ) ; of his good looks , of his skill as a musician , of how he had tried several times and failed to persuade my grandfather to enlist . |
24 | He had tried several times at a local shooting range but he could n't bring himself to pull the trigger . |
25 | He had found little time for romance since his marriage ended . |
26 | He had spent much time on the pier with William and Joe and had returned to find his pupils assembled , eager to learn for once . |
27 | One only wishes that he had spent more time gaining a perspective outside America . |
28 | He had himself frequently led patrols along the narrow roads and boreens that ran like veins through the countryside about Cork , and before that he had spent more time than he cared to remember in the muddy trenches and dug-outs of France with shells screaming overhead . |
29 | As an example of US energy inefficiency , he said he had spent more time going to and from meetings during the Houston summit than in the meetings themselves . |
30 | To be fair , he had spent some time in the cities of North Africa and , as one might do in similar urban areas of Britain , he had met the worst of the indigenous population . |