Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] [adj] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw now what I 'd known all the time , only I 'd hidden it craftily from myself because it did n't fit in with what I wanted to do , that Terry and I had no basis for a love-affair ; we were friends who happened to be attracted to each other physically , which was far from enough , and by thinking it was enough we 'd gone against the very nature of our relationship . |
| 2 | says I wan na go away for the weekend , so I 've changed all the times , no he does n't , oh , he said . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've got all the time in the world . ’ |
| 4 | you fin you finish at half five you do oh yes , but me , I have to wait all the time till half four minus one hour longer that is . |
| 5 | It has always been my ‘ extremism ’ or my ‘ unpreparedness to compromise ’ , even though of course I have to compromise all the time . |
| 6 | So that perhaps all I have done in twenty-five years is to find out something which I have known all the time . |
| 7 | And you 've had all the time in the world it takes to dial seven digits . |
| 8 | ‘ You 've had all the time I can give , ’ he said tightly . |
| 9 | She had tried to explain this feeling to Gay and Felicity , when they had come out of the Jade Cockatoo on their last night together ; but she had known all the time that it was n't a thing that could be explained . |
| 10 | Maxine told me that she had known all the time that she was her twentieth-century self and that she was sitting in a comfortable chair in my consulting room . |
| 11 | You have to reinforce all the time the need for them to listen to one another , to show interest in what each other has to say , to respect one another 's views … |
| 12 | We 've got all the time in the world . ’ |
| 13 | As Carter opened the door Munro added , ‘ We 've got all the time in the world , Jack . |
| 14 | Time after time , people would slowly open a drawer and give me something they knew perfectly well they 'd had all the time I 'd been visiting them and talking to them , but the moment was now right . |
| 15 | They had quarrelled all the time and his mum had slammed out and left all the washing-up in the sink which he and Gary had to do when they ran out of plates . |
| 16 | He had to find all the time he could to write the play , even if it meant neglecting other matters , not least because it would be his first composition since the award of the Nobel Prize . |