Example sentences of "had [vb pp] time for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a very affected couple , Erwin and Pam , who were expert at creaming off the best for themselves — and as they were in their mid-thirties , they had had time for some practice . |
| 2 | The change was put down to the fact that , since the act was only brought in in 1986 , it had taken time for its effects to come through . |
| 3 | Obligingly it had allowed time for everyone to note its zig-zag back stripe ending with the V on its head . |
| 4 | Experts believed that the death toll could have been much higher but for the recently installed early warning system which had allowed time for many people to move to safety or to use the 300 concrete cyclone shelters built under the Cyclone Preparedness Programme , run mainly by the Bangladesh Red Crescent . |
| 5 | Commenting on the cost and time overruns , Peter Pawsey , managing director of PSA Projects , which oversaw completion of the construction , said the size and nature of the project had raised a number of issues never faced before which had required time for reconsideration . |