Example sentences of "have [verb] [art] [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is she making a promise to the British people that this improvement will be financed by an increase in taxation , or that , just as the Conservative Government have always aspired to improve that target , so will a Labour Government , and the British people will have to wait a long time for such an improvement to materialise ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Yes , there 's definitely there some proving , mind you , you 'll have to pick the right time of day , do you know what I mean ? |
| 4 | Deprived — fortunately as it turned out , for otherwise he would have had no spare time at all — of the pleasures of the rugby field , he played a little squash and tennis ( developing his ‘ cannonball serve : that 's all you need , see : they never get it back ’ ) and ‘ chatting up ’ . |
| 5 | The boy must have had a terrible time at school . |
| 6 | Whoever his dearest Nina was , she must have had a hard time of it ! |
| 7 | If Peggy herself had had one tenth of such devotion from her father she would have had a happier time as a child . |
| 8 | DUNDEE 'S Canadian chairman Ron Dixon will have had an uncomfortable time since Saturday despite the distance between his home in Vancouver and his football headquarters at Dens Park . |
| 9 | And he may have to live a long time with the third . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Was it easier for them was it easy for them to pick up work or would they have been woul would they have to face a long time on the dole or ? |
| 12 | He had made a few calls , but could n't have chosen a worse time to be setting up a casual liaison . |
| 13 | We had a beautiful Spring holiday on the Beauly Firth , and could not have chosen a better time to be there , with all the different kinds of foliage on the hillsides , and the spring flowers on the banks . |