Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pers pn] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Q I have layered , shoulder-length permed hair and it has taken me some time to grow it to this length . |
| 2 | The laibon wants it understood that it has taken him some time to trace the trouble back to this incident . |
| 3 | ‘ Did you have a — ? ’ good trip , Leith might have said , but as if thinking he 'd given them enough time to sort themselves out , Naylor was butting in , and positively flabbergasting her by what he chose to interrupt with ! |
| 4 | She had n't simply evaded him ; she 'd evaded him each time with an ease that had left him looking like a fool . |
| 5 | ‘ I should have given you more time , ’ Mr O'Hara continued . |
| 6 | I wanted her to have an abortion because it would have given us more time to get ourselves sorted out and get our life going together before bringing another person into it . |
| 7 | It could have saved him this time , but the policeman , half nerved up for aggression , caught him fairly in the doorway and hung on with professional ease . |
| 8 | ‘ But if those criminals were determined to kill the boy , and it seems with hindsight that they were , they could have done it any time , before or after receiving the diamonds , in the cellar , on the road or on some lonely Yorkshire moorland . |
| 9 | He had braved the bitter weather to go down to the bookshops on the Charing Cross Road not just for the chance to get some books — he could have bought them any time — but principally to meet Joseph Hyde and hear the latest news from Dublin . |
| 10 | Good lord ! and but for his hand going up she would really have brained him this time , and then where would she have been ? |
| 11 | It was impossible they could have found her this time . |
| 12 | And once again Ric is attempting to go beyond the normal boundaries of cricket-writing : ‘ If I wanted to write a biography which was simply a record of CTB 's achievements I would have finished it some time ago . |
| 13 | ‘ I mean that it might have taken me some time to see through your ‘ innocent abroad ’ act . |
| 14 | ‘ You could have killed me any time you wanted to , ’ Sheldukher sneered sadistically down at it , ‘ just by shutting down life support . |
| 15 | We 've given her enough time to get blasted out of her skull . ’ |
| 16 | I 've given you enough time to get over everything I 've said to you . |
| 17 | They had heard it some time before they reached it , the rumble of thunder growing louder as they approached , to become almost deafening at the point where a cloud of spray hovered overhead , the droplets becoming tiny rainbows as they caught the sun . |
| 18 | I 've stopped it this time but it will come out somewhere else . |
| 19 | He tried to hide the crease of worry on his features , but when she asked him whether the debtors had given him extra time he frowned and shook his head . |
| 20 | I think I 've cracked it this time . ’ |
| 21 | " You 've done it this time … |
| 22 | I was going to , one of the , the many things that I went to away last meeting with was , was the idea of , that I 've missed it this time for Playback is a list , a listings kind of mechanism , so obviously this is the first one |
| 23 | She recognised the gun as one her ex-lover had bought her some time before as a form of self-protection , the court heard . |
| 24 | The Americans had bought him some time by offering refuge to Colonel Rebu and two other colonels . |
| 25 | If anybody had told me this time last year that we 'd find another pyramid at Giza , I 'd have said they were crazy ’ . |
| 26 | But look where that had got him last time . |
| 27 | The robe had tripped me each time I had stooped low enough to exert sufficient force , so I had taken it off . |
| 28 | For earlier , the grandma , who had left them some time ago , had pulled out a drawer from a deal tallboy , and put a noxious blanket in it , ready for the baby 's birth . |
| 29 | It had left them some time to take stock of their lives . |
| 30 | The only reason I 've beaten you this time is look at that sixteen Do n't even know four one for are you ? |