Example sentences of "[pron] have had [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only I 'd had more time . |
| 2 | I think if I had had more time to myself when I first retired I would n't have made that mistake and would have looked for interests nearer home . |
| 3 | I 'VE HAD TERRIBLE TIMES in many of the world 's beauty spots : angst-ridden in Anguilla , miserable as sin in Mexico , suicidal in Sicily , bored out of my brains in Barcelona . |
| 4 | I 've had one time sheet yet that has n't been cut up , the last two or three months . |
| 5 | I suppose , in theory , I 've had worse times , but not many , and not much worse . |
| 6 | Since I retired I 've had more time on my hands and I pass it , you might say , in reading and reflection on my area of interest . |
| 7 | Well , I 've had tougher times . |
| 8 | I think I 've had enough time in school . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've had some time to check this Dream , ’ she said . |
| 10 | For the last year , I have had little time for writing , though I get something down on paper when I can . |
| 11 | I 'm afraid I have had little time to entertain you or introduce you to Hochhauser . |
| 12 | I mean he er he used to as regular as clock work but I say , and I have had those times when he comes four o'clock- ish even in the afternoon . |
| 13 | Not that she 'd had much time to explore it , of course . |
| 14 | She 'd tried to keep the newspaper story hidden from her because she did n't want to discuss it until she 'd had more time to get her thoughts in order … but of course mother had found it and started questioning compulsively about abortion , what exactly was the law on it now , how did you get one , where did you go , what did it cost , things she must have heard Dorothy and her friends discussing a hundred times but which the newspaper report had triggered into today 's obsession . |
| 15 | Fran wished that it had been further away , wished that she 'd had more time to compose herself and remove all traces of that kiss , but as she opened the door and got out of the car when they stopped in front of the neat little semi she was aware of the throbbing redness of her bruised lips , the faintly dishevelled state of her silvery hair . |
| 16 | She 'd had bad times before she got the flat , but with the flat and the job she felt herself well off She worked from six in the morning to a quarter to nine , getting the offices clean and tidy for the staff who came in at nine o'clock , and for two hours in the evening , from six-thirty to eight-thirty . |
| 17 | You 've had ample time to get your feet under the table by now and one or two things have come up which I 'd like you to pursue . |
| 18 | indeed visiting headteachers said to the young teachers from university , polytechnic and college courses in September 1989 , ‘ You tell us about it — inevitably you have had more time to learn about it than we have . ’ |
| 19 | Think through your decision carefully before going to be tested and do n't be pressurised into having a test unless you have had enough time to decide whether it is the best thing for you . |
| 20 | I think would have probably , had more , if we 'd had more time and reversed all and been clearer on our roles . |
| 21 | ‘ We 've had little time to rest since Saturday , and with the temperature soaring past the mid-eighties , the training has been quite tough and very exhausting . |
| 22 | We have had terrible times . |
| 23 | Constant hum , people started from the first day and they 've been flowing through ever since with a high point at the weekend when they 've had more time to come up to London to have a look at things look at things . |
| 24 | They had had little time to socialise and some had lost contacts with friends and neighbours as a direct result of being in full-time employment . |
| 25 | as if it had happened a few years ago , Mr Donal John MacLennan , leaning on his metal gate as his sheep thronged the pens of today 's farm at Corry , knew that Johnson and Boswell had been guests in this place , and that they had had good times here . |
| 26 | Perhaps the shock is severe enough to catapult the person into feeling all the pain and extremity of loss that their defences might not have let them do if they had had more time to get organized . |
| 27 | Those who have a cold or flu are doubting whether they have had enough time to get over the illness , even if it did strike last November . |
| 28 | He has had ample time to understand what the world wants him to do . |
| 29 | She had always suspected that he 'd had little time for any brain power that she might possess — just as she had always known that her chief value for him had been the almost instantaneous sexual desire they had felt for each other . |
| 30 | He 'd had more time to think , to get used to this slightly absurd rapture . |