Example sentences of "time [pers pn] have a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that time I had a small 8ft X 6ft ( 2.5m X 2m ) greenhouse in which I grew tomatoes and a small section was allocated to begonias . |
| 2 | cos I worked two years all the time I had a few bob for that extra that 's all . |
| 3 | ‘ I can not remember the last time I had a proper meal without having a nice drop of wine to go with it . |
| 4 | I think that was the last time I had a proper ride on a bike . |
| 5 | I was suffering from a cold , the first for years — in fact I can not recall the last time I had a cold — and because the weather was nice the village was extremely busy with tourists and lots of traffic and people knocking on my door . |
| 6 | Perhaps it 's time you had a real rest , Buzz . ’ |
| 7 | Because effectively when was the last time you had a two thousand pound pay rise ? |
| 8 | Point is , do you see , whatever your Mama might have said , point is , it 's time you had a new one . ’ |
| 9 | Every time you have a Prime Minister who wants to take all the decisions , it mainly leads to bad results . |
| 10 | Does he agree that it is time we had a real clampdown on the possession of firearms throughout society , remembering that the problem will not be cured unless the Home Office takes strenuous action in relation to the legal as well as the illegal holding of firearms ? |
| 11 | The Sister Constance , who was the then the principal sister there she let us have the field so we got entertainment laid on we invited a celebrity , I think our first celebrity was erm I think it was Lord and Lady and then each time we had a different one , we had entertainment the whole time we started , about half past two and then we had entertainment until six then we had an interval then we had entertainment till twelve o'clock I even took my piano down onto the field so that we could have music . |
| 12 | It was grey and , and mustard , it sounds revolting but we , we were a bit , I suppose it was the time we had a purple carpet , we had an orange wall , do you remember that living room ? |
| 13 | I do nt subscribe to get lots of Leeds bashing each and every time we have a disappointing result . |
| 14 | Time they had a General Medical Council keeping tabs on them , like the rest of us . |
| 15 | He took stick from everyone his mates said it was about time they had a good laugh . |
| 16 | Someone , a bit of a wag , said , ‘ Time they had a new stick to hit that there bell . ’ |
| 17 | This time they had a big Rottweiler with them . |
| 18 | She had other daughters in the town but she always wanted me and if ever she wanted anything to do with her papers and books and financial things , she used to ask my husband to go in , you see the day after we got there she brought us a huge dish like that with mushrooms which er grew f er well there are houses built there now but er at that time they had a big meadow there sort of a copse er in it with a bunch of trees and you see and all these mushrooms grew , you see , and they were , you know , they 're nice you see . |
| 19 | Weeks went by and months went by ; in the course of time they had a little son . |
| 20 | Leith and Sebastian had been in their flat a month when Sebastian declared it was time they had a flat-warming party . |
| 21 | It makes use of the latest knowledge about language and language learning , but at the same time it has a firm practical basis and is readily usable in the classroom . |
| 22 | By this time he had a firm place in baronial society . |
| 23 | Isaac Abendana ‘ having lighted his Pipe , fell down dead ’ 17 July 1699 while visiting his friend Arthur Charlett [ q.v. ] , master of University College , and a merchant Jew passing through the town conveyed the body to London for burial , putting an end to a thirty-seven-year Oxbridge career during which time he had a virtual monopoly on Hebrew studies there . |
| 24 | From Desmond Morton 's point of view , Edward struck gold the first time he had a proper conversation with Frank Foley . |
| 25 | in April 1729 , by which time he had a high reputation , particularly as a maker of surveying instruments , being known especially for his accurate division of scales . |