Example sentences of "have [verb] more time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Property expert Kevin Dibben said : ‘ It 's a nice house but he has spent more time and effort on the property than it is worth . |
| 2 | Over the past year Alastair has spent more time cycling , putting in up to 150 miles a week . |
| 3 | She 'd given more time to thinking about Lucy than anything else for months . |
| 4 | She 'd tried to keep the newspaper story hidden from her because she did n't want to discuss it until she 'd had more time to get her thoughts in order … but of course mother had found it and started questioning compulsively about abortion , what exactly was the law on it now , how did you get one , where did you go , what did it cost , things she must have heard Dorothy and her friends discussing a hundred times but which the newspaper report had triggered into today 's obsession . |
| 5 | If only I 'd had more time . |
| 6 | He 'd had more time to think , to get used to this slightly absurd rapture . |
| 7 | I think would have probably , had more , if we 'd had more time and reversed all and been clearer on our roles . |
| 8 | Fran wished that it had been further away , wished that she 'd had more time to compose herself and remove all traces of that kiss , but as she opened the door and got out of the car when they stopped in front of the neat little semi she was aware of the throbbing redness of her bruised lips , the faintly dishevelled state of her silvery hair . |
| 9 | He had borrowed a car from one of his colleagues , and he felt hot , sweaty and uncertain of himself , having had to spend more time mastering the crate 's uncertain ways than in preparing himself for the meeting to come . |
| 10 | The Executive Committee discussed the case at several further meetings and decided to re-examine it when Black 's solicitor should have had more time to ascertain the prospects of money compensation from the government for the injuries . |
| 11 | Erm I suppose got here a bit later you would have had more time to sort this lot out . |
| 12 | Although responders may be biased towards independent , articulate individuals in employment , unemployed people may have had more time to reply , and this is supported by a higher response rate among women , who had a lower employment rate . |
| 13 | I would have done better if I 'd have had more time . |
| 14 | In such circumstances the figures for those activities will rise as a result of the police having spent more time and money in dealing with them . |
| 15 | It was nearly six-thirty by the time she arrived back at the hotel , having spent more time wandering through Strøget on the way there . |
| 16 | Even the most positivist anthropologist , knowing the statistical significance of categories of population , would not have been immune from a romantic curiosity , would perhaps have spent more time visiting this wastefully subsidized relic of the past than a cool assessment of scientific value could warrant . |
| 17 | Singer John Matthews says : ‘ If we 'd have spent more time on the record we probably would have ruined it . ’ |
| 18 | Perhaps you and I would have spent more time together . |
| 19 | When I saw the potential ability of so many of my opponents and how young so many of them were , I realised that I would have to devote more time to practice than there was in a day just to become a moderate professional . |
| 20 | Instead of taking a Gadarene rush at this important matter of the reform of local government finance , the Government should have taken more time . |
| 21 | However quickly he may have acted , the actual taking of the handbag must have taken more time than seems to have been available — since Eddie Stratton and Shirley Brown were seen walking out of The Randolph almost immediately , if the evidence of at least two of you here is to be believed , the evidence of Mr Brown and Mrs Roscoe . |
| 22 | Either arbitration or litigation would have taken more time and cost more money than a successful reference to an expert . |
| 23 | ‘ Mr. Paris , you should have left more time . |
| 24 | Was the further sacrifice of having to spend more time with this Danish dictator , this Nordic Nero , really too much for her to endure ? |
| 25 | It was just the thought of having to spend more time in Luke Calder 's company , which was more than she could face today . |
| 26 | The last thing we need is having to spend more time in the God-forsaken place than we have to . |
| 27 | The candidates themselves may have to commit more time to the interview selection process ; the interviewers will have to ensure they leave enough time for discussion between themselves as well as making their own post-interview notes ; time will have to be set aside for the interviewers to meet and finalize their decision . |
| 28 | Books were few , but there was ample time to write ; as Coleridge , proficient in German after two months , put it : ‘ He seems to have employed more time in writing English than in studying German . ’ |
| 29 | I would have loved to have spent more time out there where the action is , but it just was n't practical . |
| 30 | He and I had talked long into the tropical nights and I had enjoyed his company , and I would have liked to have spent more time with Senator Crowninshield , but three months ? |