Example sentences of "to have [vb pp] [det] time " in BNC.

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1 Both people entering unemployment as a result of losing a temporary job and people taking temporary jobs as a way out of unemployment seemed more likely to have taken a number of jobs , to have experienced a number of spells of unemployment , to have had less time in work and more time in unemployment than people becoming unemployed for other reasons , or managing to obtain a permanent job on leaving unemployment .
2 Books were few , but there was ample time to write ; as Coleridge , proficient in German after two months , put it : ‘ He seems to have employed more time in writing English than in studying German . ’
3 I would have loved to have spent more time out there where the action is , but it just was n't practical .
4 He and I had talked long into the tropical nights and I had enjoyed his company , and I would have liked to have spent more time with Senator Crowninshield , but three months ?
5 In Witham the break-ins are thought to have happened some time early on Saturday .
6 and seems to have worked this time .
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