Example sentences of "to have [verb] [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 . |
7 | ‘ You 're going to have to stop some time , ’ Jessamy said furiously . |
8 | I thought the last thing you wanted was to have to spend more time than necessary in my company … seeing as you dislike me so much ? ’ |