Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [art] time [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Sam , about 16 months old , has had the time of his life with Peter .
3 For Julie Crew what should be a time of joy has become a time of pain and misery .
4 He lost his hair through chemotherapy treatment and has spent the time since recovering from the disease , which spread to his lungs .
5 Toshack has wasted no time in putting his stamp on the side , moving the West German midfielder Bernd Schuster to libero , Michel from the right flank to central midfield , and giving the striker Emilio Butragueno a slightly withdrawn role .
6 The Nottingham Forest manager has wasted no time in moving for Olympic keeper Brad Freidle after Mark Crossley cost his side two crucial survival points against Wimbledon on Sunday .
7 Graseby Anderson Inc , the Atlanta , Georgia arm of Graseby Plc , Cambridge has wasted no time in filing its proposed initial public offering ( CI No 2,129 ) , of up to 1.92m shares , an unspecified number to come from the Andersen Samplers BV and Graseby Overseas Holdings Ltd units of Graseby .
8 VMark Software Inc , Framingham , Massachusetts , has wasted no time in getting its Pick-derived uniVerse ‘ postrelational database management system ’ up under Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT and has been demonstrating it in Atlanta .
9 And it has wasted no time in garnering the support of academic and commercial developers with over 20 firms writing software for it .
10 VMark Software Inc , Framingham , Massachusetts , has wasted no time in getting its Pick-derived uniVerse ‘ postrelational database management system ’ up under Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT and has been demonstrating it in Atlanta .
11 He added , ‘ I also hear that Earl Siward has lost no time in equipping all his churches of St Cuthbert with four stout walls , a ditch , and a garrison .
12 Statistical comparisons with previous periods indicate that he has extended the time for supplementary questioning on ministerial statements and on Private Notice Questions and this has enabled more Members to be called .
13 He ran his eye down the list , looking at the column in which he 'd noted the time of day for each killing .
14 He said our flight had been delayed and he 'd spent the time in the bar , and then added , rather unconvincingly , that some woman had insisted on ‘ plying Phaeton with liquor ’ as he put it , but there was a hollowness in the way he said it , and I do n't think either Gill or I believed him for a moment .
15 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 .
16 She discovered that she was hungry , and , having enquired the time of her neighbour in the coach , a thick-set farmer , decided it was safe to consume her sandwich .
17 But then she would have had no time for taking walks .
18 Colleagues , you 'll have noted the time of the day .
19 Some will come directly from school , some will have spent a time in business and will be wishing to improve their qualifications .
20 On returning to England , he discovered that several hours appeared to have separated the time of the eclipse in Italy and in England .
21 They are the only two post-war premiers to have had no time for the black arts of political news management and personal public relations .
22 We 've calculated the time from how deeply it had settled in the mud .
23 I need to phone down , see if they 've got a time for you today .
24 I need to phone down , see if they 've got a time for you today .
25 I 've got a time in your diary for that .
26 I 've got no time for him , he 's fouling up my thinking space .
27 Bitterness is n't part of my philosophy ; I 've always said if you let bitterness overwhelm you , you let it distract you from your path , I 've got no time for it ; it cramps your style .
28 It takes a lot of time scoring and that , y'know , you 've got no time for anything else .
29 You 've got no time for anything else .
30 Yeah cos there 's , on your own all the time and you feel you 've got no time for yourself and that can be fairly bad at times .
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