Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [vb pp] [art] time " in BNC.

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1 We should have had a time , we 'd of had to go home !
2 He considered , now , that he should have spent the time he had wasted on all that fiction in working on his great book on Samuel Taylor Coleridge instead .
3 Colleagues , you 'll have noted the time of the day .
4 ‘ A man like you might have looked through the screens of the rickshaw ; might have counted the time it took to reach the place , calculated the direction in which you were taken . ’
5 have n't , Leicester never do well when they 're at , if they go away , if they play away , if they go right down South or if they go right up North they 'll get beaten every time
6 So with his son 's reputation now unequivocally established Leopold may have regarded the time as propitious to secure a position for Mozart at the Viennese court .
7 The general intention in each case was not to screen the train completely , but to ensure that trains did not suddenly come into view without warning , for that would have given no time for a rider or driver to control the horse , which might otherwise bold or unseat its rider .
8 But then she would have had no time for taking walks .
9 ‘ If it had n't gone through this time , I would have had no time left in my life to enter the ministry I so dearly want to join .
10 If Yuri Rudakov , undressing in the front bedroom of their bungalow , had not been so tired , he would have taken the time to admire the new nightdress that his wife wore as she sat against the pillows and turned the pages of a picture magazine .
11 Some will come directly from school , some will have spent a time in business and will be wishing to improve their qualifications .
12 However , an explicit consideration of the broader themes of education management as such is a luxury which fewer people will have had the time , or perhaps the inclination , to undertake .
13 The offering of such guidelines or suggestions does not in any way detract from the professional integrity of the teacher , who must then select what suits him best for his own purposes , but there will be few teachers who will have had the time or the imagination to think of all of them .
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