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 .
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