Example sentences of "[verb] not [adv] have time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was bigger than I and he grabbed me by my Sidcot collar and hauled me in the direction of the CFI 's office , I did not even have time to shake off my parachute before we burst into the " Holiest of Holies " . |
| 2 | When she was kind to me I thought she was the best person in the world , but she did not always have time for me . |
| 3 | We are told that ‘ in normal conversation , both in speaking and in listening , performers do not generally have time to think about and apply conscious grammatical rules ’ ( Krashen 1981 : 3 ) . |
| 4 | Roland do not necessarily have time to reply to letters where the course of action has already been explained in the handbook . |
| 5 | There was the point that the scientific community had not yet had time to confirm the phenomenon but this was dealt with summarily with a warning that would , in the following months , become a knee-jerk response of Utah fusion aficionados . |
| 6 | No mention was made of my helping with the editing , and when I enquired , I was told the programme was nowhere near that stage yet ; in fact , the producer had not yet had time to listen to the — what must be by now — at least four hours of tape . |
| 7 | CW reported he had passed a list of requirements to meet EC Directive on Workstation H & S to IL , but he had not yet had time to discuss eye and eyesight testing requirements with M Prior . |
| 8 | This is most likely to occur in weak sappy growth that has grown fairly recently , like a flower stem , and where leaves on that stem have not yet had time to make the carbohydrates and store the energy in the storage cells of the node . |
| 9 | By the way , I have received copies of the Dyfed consultation drafts on golf courses and windfarms , although I have not yet had time to read them . |
| 10 | Dewdrops , on the other hand , exist , not because they are durable , but because they have only just come into existence and have not yet had time to evaporate . |
| 11 | I have not yet had time to study the minutiae of the Bill which , as we now know , runs to 163 pages , but I want to touch briefly on certain parts of it . |