Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [vb pp] [pers pn] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I should have given you more time , ’ Mr O'Hara continued . |
| 2 | ‘ I mean that it might have taken me some time to see through your ‘ innocent abroad ’ act . |
| 3 | ‘ But if those criminals were determined to kill the boy , and it seems with hindsight that they were , they could have done it any time , before or after receiving the diamonds , in the cellar , on the road or on some lonely Yorkshire moorland . |
| 4 | It could have saved him this time , but the policeman , half nerved up for aggression , caught him fairly in the doorway and hung on with professional ease . |
| 5 | ‘ You could have killed me any time you wanted to , ’ Sheldukher sneered sadistically down at it , ‘ just by shutting down life support . |
| 6 | It was impossible they could have found her this time . |
| 7 | He had braved the bitter weather to go down to the bookshops on the Charing Cross Road not just for the chance to get some books — he could have bought them any time — but principally to meet Joseph Hyde and hear the latest news from Dublin . |
| 8 | I wanted her to have an abortion because it would have given us more time to get ourselves sorted out and get our life going together before bringing another person into it . |
| 9 | And once again Ric is attempting to go beyond the normal boundaries of cricket-writing : ‘ If I wanted to write a biography which was simply a record of CTB 's achievements I would have finished it some time ago . |