Example sentences of "time [pron] have [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The dancer Fred Astaire was among those in modern times who have worn a signet ring on the right hand .
2 How many times she had felt a lift of excitement when she saw that sign and knew that Riverstown was only ten minutes away .
3 As for North , ‘ he would either go to jail or be decorated ’ , Secord used to say to Hakim ; and McFarlane told him — as he sat jet-lagged and exhausted in his office the night after a gruelling Iranian session in Frankfurt — that ‘ if the world only knew how many times you have kept a semblance of integrity and gumption to US policy , they would make you Secretary of State . ’
4 She got an answering machine and was pretty certain that she recognized his voice from the times he 'd given a television reporter a few words at the scene of crime .
5 By this time I had developed a gut feeling for the topography of the island .
6 For just a short time I had become a part of the village community on a day that ‘ introduces everybody to everybody else ’ .
7 It was the first time I had seen a ship built from scratch and it was quite an experience to watch the steel plates being cut by their ingenious machine which controlled a cutter as it drew our the required shapes direct from the blueprint , converting everything to full scale as it cut .
8 For some time I had nourished a wish to write a war memoir , and after a while , and with the approach of the fifteenth anniversary of the start of the war , the desire became urgent .
9 At one time I had bought a chalet just outside Interlaken .
10 Norwich manager Dave Stringer said : ‘ This is the second time I 've lost a semi-final and it does n't get any easier to accept .
11 ‘ This is the first time I 've had a chance to talk to you on your own , ’ he said thoughtfully , a speculative gleam in his hazel eyes .
12 The first time I 've had a chance to have a look through this so could I erm
13 Right okay what I this will be the first time I 've had a look at er a little bit more of your background so erm while I 'm doing that , although you may have already inside information , I I guess you 'd seen the brochure before had you ?
14 But at the same time I 've got a cartoon girl I 'm dying to get it on with .
15 I mean I know in about four months ' time I 've got a meeting in my diary with Alan .
16 Never had an occasion to use , well the only time I 've used a newspaper as far as I know this afternoon when I emptied the bag .
17 ‘ Well , fishing is my hobby , but it 's the first time I 've caught a squirrel .
18 the first time I 've taken a pill for years and years and she said , my taste and my smell
19 All I could do was write a letter , and by the time I 'd written a letter and it got where it was going and a reply got back , a week or two weeks could have gone by .
20 That was the first time I 'd seen a man 's penis so clearly and my mouth and throat went dry .
21 That was the only time I 'd seen a stick being used .
22 Another 48 Hours was done out of fear because Harlem Nights was the first time I 'd had a movie that flopped .
23 I have tried everywhere in the Legion , but every time I have hit a brick wall . ’
24 ‘ This is the first time I have made a gramophone recording at Watford — I 've done film music here , but I think the sound of this is going to be amazing , ’ he said .
25 I have been breeding Neons for around twenty years , and during this time I have evolved a set procedure which enables me to successfully raise the fish in sufficient numbers .
26 Indeed , this is the first time I have found a photographer reveal the position he was in when he took a particularly impressive shot of slime mould , for example .
27 I usually find , though , that I have done so much walking and sightseeing during the day that , by the time I have had a meal and a bath , I am quite happy to read in bed for an hour and then go to sleep .
28 For a long time I have had a desire to understand better the behaviour and movements of wild birds and animals , and in the absence of the time ( and probably the dedication ) to undertake a proper study , I decided on a simple ploy which , I hoped , would get some results in the fullness of time .
29 Turner is one of my favourite painters , but for a long time I have had a theory that he had " wide-angle eyes " that filled the camera with distorted shapes .
30 In 1794 she published her Collection of Poems and Fables , by which time she had suffered a number of domestic calamities , including the death of a child and apparently the imprisonment of her husband .
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