Example sentences of "have [verb] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.

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31 If she had been married to Francis , Mary might have had a harder time for he was a consummate bed player .
32 If Peggy herself had had one tenth of such devotion from her father she would have had a happier time as a child .
33 DUNDEE 'S Canadian chairman Ron Dixon will have had an uncomfortable time since Saturday despite the distance between his home in Vancouver and his football headquarters at Dens Park .
34 Her coach , Ian Threadgill , said : ‘ We 've got to be delighted with that without the wind she would easily have got the qualifying time . ’
35 While some infants may go uncomplaining through the night without feeding by the age of two months they will not have spent the whole time asleep .
36 He must have waved a thousand times , and it was barely ten o'clock .
37 And he may have to live a long time with the third .
38 We arrived in Venice with time to spare before catching the train to Bologna , where we would have to change a third time for Parma .
39 She waited to see if McGee would make it back from the drawing room then , fearful lest he should have to ring a second time , she opened the door .
40 Between the Arch and the back of the Admiralty proper runs a small unnamed side-street which I must have passed a hundred times without really noticing .
41 Was it easier for them was it easy for them to pick up work or would they have been woul would they have to face a long time on the dole or ?
42 Peel ( 1966 ) considered that these would have taken a long time to form and their unidirectional nature may indicate that the north-east trades have been blowing over this area for a very long time .
43 It must have taken a long time .
44 As they involved a great deal of the same work to bring them into effect — work that would have taken a considerable time — and would have imposed further contingent or actual liabilities on funds at a time when there was already considerable anxiety because of the uncertainty over the Barber judgment —
45 It would all have taken a fair time . ’
46 While this pattern was reproduced only imperfectly in the ECSC and while a timetable of functional spillover might have taken an unconscionable time to achieve , what in the end counted for the ECSC was that it did provide an atmosphere of mutual confidence among the leaders of the member states — despite the disputes , none contemplated leaving the Community — and that this helped to pave the way for the creating of the European Economic Community in 1957 .
47 The hurt itself may have happened a long time ago , and may even be something that you have forgotten all about .
48 cos it 'd have to take a long time .
49 It does n't have to take a long time , it 's up to us here and now .
50 He had made a few calls , but could n't have chosen a worse time to be setting up a casual liaison .
51 SINEAD Donaghy could n't have chosen a better time to score her first goal of the season .
52 We had a beautiful Spring holiday on the Beauly Firth , and could not have chosen a better time to be there , with all the different kinds of foliage on the hillsides , and the spring flowers on the banks .
53 She had perhaps a few spoonfuls of oil ; she was told to pour those minute contents of her jar into jars that might have held a hundred times as much as she had .
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