Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Complementing it is the British Coal Yearbook which offers a written record of the season and which has expanded this time to embrace the seasons in France , Australia and New Zealand . |
| 2 | It has saved much time and effort in the long run . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Poet and painter Adrian Henri has spent much time in Dieppe and its environs . |
| 6 | Every Rentokil person in Water and Ventilation , Tropical Plants and Medical Services has spent much time and energy developing SSG & FQS this year and now they will really shoot us way into the lead . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Over the past year Alastair has spent more time cycling , putting in up to 150 miles a week . |
| 9 | On the very day of the dinner Charlotte Poole was writing in her journal : ‘ We are shocked to hear that Mr. Thelwall has spent some time at Stowey this week with Mr. Coleridge , and consequently with Tom Poole . |
| 10 | Walter Last has spent some time developing a system for cutting the compound angles on the segments for his turning |
| 11 | Even where individuals have not been to the West Indies themselves , they often live in a household with an older person of the same generation ( e.g. an older sibling ) who either was born there or has spent some time there . |
| 12 | Please could you let me know i ) if the council has set any time limit on these protracted negotiations and if so what it is and ii ) when planning consent is given will it apply from the date the original application was approved or the date the conditions were approved . |
| 13 | So I did record it again ; let's see how far it has gone this time ! |
| 14 | I 'm hoping that it has worked this time . |
| 15 | London has come to be my second home , but it has taken some time to get used to it . |
| 16 | According to purchasing manager Roger DaForno , this excellent relationship has taken some time to build and there 's no doubt that both organizations ' commitment to a process of continuous improvement has helped immensely . |
| 17 | She 'd given more time to thinking about Lucy than anything else for months . |
| 18 | I thought we 'd won this time . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Not that she 'd had much time to explore it , of course . |
| 21 | She 'd tried to keep the newspaper story hidden from her because she did n't want to discuss it until she 'd had more time to get her thoughts in order … but of course mother had found it and started questioning compulsively about abortion , what exactly was the law on it now , how did you get one , where did you go , what did it cost , things she must have heard Dorothy and her friends discussing a hundred times but which the newspaper report had triggered into today 's obsession . |
| 22 | If only I 'd had more time . |
| 23 | He 'd had more time to think , to get used to this slightly absurd rapture . |
| 24 | I think would have probably , had more , if we 'd had more time and reversed all and been clearer on our roles . |
| 25 | Fran wished that it had been further away , wished that she 'd had more time to compose herself and remove all traces of that kiss , but as she opened the door and got out of the car when they stopped in front of the neat little semi she was aware of the throbbing redness of her bruised lips , the faintly dishevelled state of her silvery hair . |
| 26 | Cos I think they 'd gone some time ago . |
| 27 | and she put on the back of this one she was thankful that at least I 'd managed this time to get the mark in the area where it should have been in the first |
| 28 | No doubt he sees this as a stage in his learning to win again , but all the time , he is learning instead to derive small satisfactions from losing — a skill he will have discarded some time before he won the Weembledon ( he really did pronounce it like that ) Junior Championship , all of 20 years ago . |
| 29 | I would have saved much time and pain if I had paid more attention to how I was racing . |
| 30 | For what would you have done this time last year if a lass had been held back from you like this ? |