Example sentences of "[pron] has [verb] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 Another super-domestique of great experience is Sean Yates from Sussex , who has won a long time trial stage in the tour .
2 Waiting in the third round could be fourth seed Boris Becker , who has had a torrid time in the build-up to the French Championships but who has a good chance to find his feet with a first round match against 579th-ranked French wild card Nicolas Escude .
3 She has waited a long time for rest .
4 She has had a bad time .
5 In the early studies we chose to look at them twenty-four hours after training on the grounds that any structural change would take time to build up , ; more recently he has pushed the earliest time at which changes can be found back to as little as an hour after the bird pecks the bead .
6 He has had a sad time looking for work in London and intends to go back to the North-East with his parents as soon as possible , ’ said David Martin , defending .
7 It has exploited a slack time — the hiatus between the end of tunnelling work on the Channel link and the start of London 's Jubilee Line Underground extension — to demand that contractors work to tighter margins : between 3 and 7 per cent , compared with the 15 per cent allowed by North West Water , for example , on its contracts .
8 It has taken a long time to reduce the effects of that defect but it is now under control .
9 It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives .
10 It has taken a long time getting Australian rugby to the top and we are n't about to throw that away in one game , ’ he added .
11 Surprisingly , it has taken a long time to arrange something that most would have considered to be basic .
12 It has taken a long time for such unashamed aspiration to reach these shores , yet now , that mentality which is increasingly being demanded by the British in pursuance of their leisure activities , has finally arrived .
13 It has taken a long time for those engaged in mainstream adult education to attribute any significance to the Women 's Movement .
14 It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives .
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