Example sentences of "[pron] have [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I have for a long time . |
| 2 | I went from that to a Gibson EB3 , then to a Rickenbacker 4001 , which I had for a long time . |
| 3 | I had for a long time being trying to find a way of showing the heat-pain argument to be invalid , because I could not accept the conclusion , that heat exists only as a sensation in the mind . |
| 4 | His interest and concern calmed me and sitting in his study at the back of the church I felt more at peace than I had in a long time . |
| 5 | ‘ I feel better about the market now than I have for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Captain America 's main man EUGENE KELLY got in touch to tell us the latest development , namely the withdrawing of the sleeve , and added : ‘ I have for a long time been a devoted customer of C&A and will only wear socks and pants with the C&A label . |
| 7 | I have for a long time had on file one respected artist 's offer to arrange an exhibition of a hundred of his works , and then to hand them straight over as a gift to the Russian Cultural Foundation . |
| 8 | I have for a long time been suspicious of the doctrine of gradualism in politics and the foibles of the Foreign Office , which uses the double-speak of diplomacy , as I saw in the Anglo-Irish diktat and now smell in Maastricht . |
| 9 | ‘ I saw Everton more times in the last few months of last season than I have for a long time . ’ |
| 10 | So erm I 'm looking forward to this season much more than I have for a long time , so I ca n't wait , wherever I end up , we 'll have to see , but erm I 'm looking forward to it anyway . |
| 11 | I have at the same time suggested that Benjamin 's own aesthetics were very much a postmodernist aesthetics . |
| 12 | ‘ Better than I have in a long time . ’ |
| 13 | Safety , which has for a long time been assumed to be at odds with commercial considerations , is now a business interest . |
| 14 | This is not meant to be a criticism of the many carp bait firms which have for a long time sold baits which catch carp . |
| 15 | Valerie Eliot was also his protector — as a secretary she had for a long time been organizing his daily life and guarding him from the world , and it was probably the calm assurance of her presence which first drew him towards her . |
| 16 | She felt more alive than she had for a long time . |
| 17 | But , even while visualizing entering the cupboard , she had at the same time been fully aware that she was in a non-threatening situation ( lying in her own bed ) and so , once again , the subconscious mind had no need to send out those panic signals . |
| 18 | For instance , we are well-used to integrating vocational assessments in care , but for the general SVQ we have for the first time found it necessary to set up meetings with colleagues delivering modules in numeracy , information technology and budget financing . |
| 19 | Erm I have already referred sir to the investigations which are proceeding with regard to the ability to erm , as it were , encourage er this er amphibian to go to other ponds , and I would again call your attention to the state of the knowledge we have at the present time , which is that that is not possible . |
| 20 | Erm power stations source of energy you see , one of the biggest sources of energy that we have at the present time next twenty years |
| 21 | Of course at the moment environmental health is very much an in subject , especially with the Environmental Protection Act of 1990 , and your profession has the marvellous opportunity of seeking to safeguard the environment and also the threats that we have at the present time which are upon the environment , from so many sources but , most of all particularly in the eastern counties , from the population explosion , which we here in South Cambridgeshire know quite a bit about . |
| 22 | And so it goes on through life ; always a struggle between wanting to hold on to what we have at the same time as we are reaching out for new joys and satisfactions ; always the dilemma of making choices , of greedily wanting everything , of resenting having to let anything go . |
| 23 | There had for a long time been publicly expressed unease in the United Kingdom about the unsatisfactory training of people treating the diseases of animals , whether they were farriers in the sense of being shoeing-smiths acting as horse-doctors , or were medical practitioners — physicians , or more especially surgeons — who had , partly or completely , left human medicine for the less crowded and potentially more lucrative ( if less socially acceptable ) field of animal medicine . |
| 24 | On the one hand , it was simply the period required for the sun , moon , and planets to attain the same positions in relation to each other as they had at a given time . |
| 25 | Is that the only child they have at the present time ? |
| 26 | ‘ ( 1 ) … where an individual is adjudged bankrupt and he has at a relevant time … entered into a transaction with any person at an undervalue , the trustee of the bankrupt 's estate may apply to the court for an order under this section . |
| 27 | Second , there is the knock-on effect to the advertising market in the UK and Australia , which is looking weaker than it has for a long time . |
| 28 | For example , it has for a long time been generally accepted by students of organisation that any organisation is likely to need a number of rules and procedures to guide the behaviour of organisational members . |
| 29 | But — with exceptions of course — it has at the same time been unable or unwilling to devote enough time and effort to understanding and pursing financial and accounting matters , perhaps because these often lack the immediate and general glamour of other aspects of policies . |
| 30 | Even as he asked the question , Seb realised that it no longer hurt in the way it had for a long time . |