Example sentences of "who had [verb] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mothers who had finished full time education before age 17 were more likely to have their membranes artificially ruptured before labour than more educated women ( 120/972 ( 12% ) v 33/422 ( 8% ) , p<0.05 ) . |
| 2 | There was no sign of the son , an undersized , sly creature who had spent more time in prison than out of it ever since he had been old enough to get himself down to the city and into trouble . |
| 3 | This showed that in practice relatively few , one in ten , of those who had spent any time in residential homes were thought to have been admitted ‘ too late ’ ; this proportion was a quarter for those who had not spent any time in a residential home . |
| 4 | Only one symptom , a persistent cough , was reported more often for those who had not been in a residential home — 24 per cent compared with 10 per cent of those who had spent some time in such a home . |
| 5 | Almost nine tenths , 88 per cent , of the people who had spent some time in a residential home were said to have had access to a telephone where they could make calls and people could telephone them . |
| 6 | Sylvia Hayes , an artist who had spent some time painting in Orkney , came from Oxford to show her support for the four families . |