Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They immediately brighten , become more animated and are often quite grateful that someone has taken the time to listen to them . |
| 2 | I see it 's late , I 'd forgotten the time . |
| 3 | The man checks my gun as if I 'd had the time and opportunity to fix the outcome , and then rather begrudgingly hands over a very full pair of red fake fur lips . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've crossed the time lines so many times in the TARDIS that I 'm extremely sensitive to temporal disturbances . |
| 5 | But I 've seen the time it was . |
| 6 | Oh aye , I 've seen the time it was . |
| 7 | No it used to be just the sacks stop the dust and go down the back and I 've known the time what er , when they needed a regular gang of dockers , if they went to work on er , on er Monday morning with a dirty head bag on made of calico , they 'd have to buy the beer cos they had , if they ai n't got a clean head bag on or a cl clean skullcap , there used to be a little old calico skullcap they used to put on just to keep the dust out the hair and all like that . |
| 8 | Bu but half off and half in at in moment cos I 've taken the time off but there 's lots of problems , like half the team 's gone off sick with pleurisy , tonsillitis and everything |
| 9 | That I 've got the time is a bloody disaster . |
| 10 | ‘ One of these days when I 've got the time . ’ |
| 11 | when I 've got the time . |
| 12 | The difference with this baby is that he himself has selected the time at which he will display the pattern , rather than having it imposed on him by a mother 's pattern of giving care . |
| 13 | Nobody had counted the time or the trouble . |
| 14 | She 'd forgotten the time difference . |
| 15 | Somebody ought to do a research project into it ; the answers are all there to be unearthed , if you 've got the time and the energy . ’ |
| 16 | IF YOU 'VE GOT THE TIME AND PATIENCE , WHY NOT GO FOR A SPOT OF DIY ! |
| 17 | If you 've got the time , they 've got the money . |
| 18 | You might be able to do the odd one but I do n't think that you 've got the time , I mean bear in mind you 've gone from four to three to two there 's two of you now supervising all of us if you tell me you 've got spare time then great , and you want to do one or two equally great , however unless you tell me to the contrary |
| 19 | Yes and you 've got the time |
| 20 | She had previously limited her expression of that disapproval to hints , and to glancing remarks ; now , clearly , she had decided the time had come to be more open . |
| 21 | We are therefore presented with a book which was not ‘ written in order … but like as the matter came to the creature in mind … for it was so long ere it was written that she had forgotten the time and the order when things befell ’ . |
| 22 | She had spent the time since her arrival making calm arrangements for the transfer of her father 's body to their Buckinghamshire home after the inquest tomorrow , and was now apparently set on clearing up this murder before she left . |
| 23 | Her Honour Judge Marian Norrie-Walker , formerly Marian Jackson , who graduated with an LLB in 1961 , talked recently to MOYRA SUTCLIFFE about her unusual career path and how much she had enjoyed the time she spent at Nottingham . |
| 24 | Esther was saying , returning to the guest list , recalling scores not settled a quarter of a century ago : ‘ Yes , the very man , he 's a something or other in the DES , he 's a very important chap now , you ought to have a go at him , ’ Liz replied , and as she spoke the doorbell rang , and there was the first guest , on the dot of two minutes past nine o'clock , tall , thin , grey , anxious , clutching a bunch of yellow roses , ex-priest turned analyst Joseph O'Toole , standing stranded on the black and white marble tiles , not knowing where to turn , how to divest himself of his coat , to whom to deliver his roses , a lost man , gazing mildly at the unexpected butler , waiting for the arrival of familiar Liz Headleand , who advanced upon him , took the roses , embraced him , restored him , and led him in to Charles , Alix and Esther : a quarter of an hour earlier she had predicted the time of his arrival accurately , to the minute , and now smiled triumphantly as she effected the introductions , a smile of complicity in which Joseph O'Toole , who was acutely aware of his own punctuality problem , was able with a pleasant relief to share . |
| 25 | She had thought the time had gone when thoughts of Jake could upset her . |
| 26 | In view of the dicey and rapidly deteriorating state of our physical surroundings , largely attributable to our ham-fisted handling of the powers bestowed on us by scientific and technological ‘ progress ’ , it might have been thought that there was a place in society for young persons who had taken the time and the trouble needed to give themselves some understanding of the problems we have set ourselves , so that they could help to reduce the damage done , and the worse damage yet to come . |
| 27 | Joan asked Sunday Life to thank the unknown person who had taken the time to care for her son 's grave . |
| 28 | where you have missed the time limit for presenting an unfair dismissal application ( the normal limitation period for bringing an action for breach of contract in the civil courts is six years , rather than the strict three-month time limit for pursuing an unfair dismissal claim ) ; |
| 29 | I 'm sure you have had the time , what you do n't do is make the time because |
| 30 | We 've calculated the time from how deeply it had settled in the mud . |