Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the night Quigley had kicked my head in , I had finally seen something I should have seen a long time ago . |
| 2 | But now I have , and I see what I should have seen a long time ago , the selfish , arrogant , unscrupulous fixer who has been quietly feathering his nest in London for the past ten years at our expense after turning his back on us as though we were n't good enough for him , who could n't even be bothered to come home during this ordeal but just flew over on a weekend return when the mood took him , when he had nothing better to do , like the tourist he is ! |
| 3 | Is not the Minister deeply ashamed that he intends to carry on with that cruel and stupid tax instead of scrapping it , as he should have done a long time ago ? |
| 4 | Over 900 of them said : ‘ It should have come a long time ago — very few people have done more for charity , public service and their Party than you have ’ . |
| 5 | She waited to see if McGee would make it back from the drawing room then , fearful lest he should have to ring a second time , she opened the door . |
| 6 | He would never understand how she could memorize all those complex , impossibly long poems , yet forget the words of a simple song she must have heard a thousand times or more . |
| 7 | He must have waved a thousand times , and it was barely ten o'clock . |
| 8 | The agency account man must have had a sticky time explaining that one to the client . |
| 9 | The boy must have had a terrible time at school . |
| 10 | Whoever his dearest Nina was , she must have had a hard time of it ! |
| 11 | Anyone who survived with Lennie must have had a tough time . |
| 12 | The phrase , which was one she must have used a hundred times to visiting parishioners in ordinary times , took on a poignant inadequacy in the context of the murder of her husband . |
| 13 | It must have taken a long time . |
| 14 | Between the Arch and the back of the Admiralty proper runs a small unnamed side-street which I must have passed a hundred times without really noticing . |
| 15 | She had perhaps a few spoonfuls of oil ; she was told to pour those minute contents of her jar into jars that might have held a hundred times as much as she had . |
| 16 | If she had been married to Francis , Mary might have had a harder time for he was a consummate bed player . |
| 17 | While this pattern was reproduced only imperfectly in the ECSC and while a timetable of functional spillover might have taken an unconscionable time to achieve , what in the end counted for the ECSC was that it did provide an atmosphere of mutual confidence among the leaders of the member states — despite the disputes , none contemplated leaving the Community — and that this helped to pave the way for the creating of the European Economic Community in 1957 . |
| 18 | Among people in their fifties there is a marked sense that , " if only I had been born 20 years later I could have had a better time ! " |
| 19 | cos it 'd have to take a long time . |
| 20 | Most modern chemists would probably say that we 'd have to wait a long time by the standards of a human lifetime , but perhaps not all that long by the standards of cosmological time . |
| 21 | He could have worked things out the same way I had , and he 'd have had a hellish time believing it all of his own son . |
| 22 | ‘ If 'e 'd been any bigger , she 'd have had a bad time . ’ |
| 23 | And he may have to live a long time with the third . |
| 24 | We may have met a long time ago at Rotherfield when I was on a weekend outing from school , but I would n't expect you to remember — it was at least 10 years ago and I ca n't imagine I was a memorable schoolgirl ! |
| 25 | ‘ Then they may have to wait a long time . |
| 26 | The hurt itself may have happened a long time ago , and may even be something that you have forgotten all about . |
| 27 | I might as well have had that shower , she thought drily ; at least I would have felt a hundred times more human . |
| 28 | We were surprised at the continuing estimates of fixed costs , as we would have expected a minimal time investment after the first year of familiarisation , but given that training was identified as the major cost , it may be that this forms the bulk of the continuing cost . |
| 29 | We arrived in Venice with time to spare before catching the train to Bologna , where we would have to change a third time for Parma . |
| 30 | A Titford family photograph taken in the early 1890s shows husband and wife with five daughters and young Marwood , the girls in neat smocks or severe black dresses , the son in an Eton collar , and every one of the group looking his or her most miserable Sunday best Those photographers who made a speciality of enticing young ladies to say ‘ prunes ’ and ‘ prisms ’ to bring out their charming dimples , called ‘ watch the birdie ! ’ with much gusto or tried ‘ cheese ! ’ in the hope of a smile would have had a rough time indeed with severe-looking Benjamin James and his wife and children . |