Example sentences of "had time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt after six days of living in a trench , the dirt would have had time to grime itself in . |
| 2 | It should be taken first thing in the morning , before it has had time to be increased by exertion , mental excitement , eating , or stimulants like tea , coffee or nicotine . |
| 3 | Yet another , fortunately quite rare , follows you around when it sees secateurs in your hands and drops a few eggs into the soft pith of the stem when you make a cut , before the cut wound has had time to callus and heal itself — another reason why you should always try to confine cutting to a fine dry day . |
| 4 | The evening before he had procured from the local library a copy of Gerald Seymour-Strachey 's essay in autobiography , but a quick flick through the index had assured him there was no mention of Walter Machin , and he had n't had time to bone up on the details of the man himself 's career . |
| 5 | This kind of ability is both envied and disparaged by many Continental musicians , and it can not be doubted that professional English singers often perform music which they have not had time to ‘ learn ’ in any sense of the term that a European singer would accept . |
| 6 | She has but I 've not had time to er assess her yet . |
| 7 | NORPLANT was licensed in Britain in May but it 's launch has been delayed until now so that doctors and nurses have had time to be properly trained in patient counselling and implant techniques … |
| 8 | Already back at work today , Mrs Williams said she had n't had time to be frightened . |
| 9 | ‘ He says I had the tools , the knowledge , the opportunity and the location , and he looked up those races I rode at Ascot and worked out that I could have had time between the first two and the last to drive to Maidenhead and remove Harry 's car . |
| 10 | As a child she had not had time for many fairy stories and did not now know them to tell to her daughter again , but instead she showed her the pictures . |
| 11 | There was a very affected couple , Erwin and Pam , who were expert at creaming off the best for themselves — and as they were in their mid-thirties , they had had time for some practice . |
| 12 | She could never understand what he did with it , where it went — he had not had time for … that other life of his , he had been with Bert , with Jack ! |
| 13 | Because we 've been talking for a while so had time for it to evaporate . |
| 14 | Had she lived , I felt sure he would not have had time for me . |
| 15 | For I liked — I was amazed , never yet having had time for or interest in such delights — I liked to be touched by him . |
| 16 | After her small bedroom at home , where beloved old ornaments belonging once to her mother jostled for space with a basket of ironing she had n't yet had time for , and nursing textbooks that would n't fit on her one small bookshelf , or her room at the nurses ' home , where exotic travel posters — gleaned from a travel agent next to her father 's hardware shop — could n't disguise the institutional plainness of the furnishings , this room seemed palatial . |
| 17 | Castlerock 's 1,500 residents , the majority of them Protestants , have never had time for sectarianism and division . |
| 18 | ‘ I hope you 've had time for other things as well ? ’ |
| 19 | You know , I mean it 's quite realistic , if you can change a video , or even that if , if you 'd written , had n't had time for whatever reason , but , video , just point that out . |