Example sentences of "[adv] have time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because we 've been talking for a while so had time for it to evaporate . |
| 2 | Even though she had only had time to glimpse the devastation that had been wrought , she knew that it had been a professional job , carried out by men who would leave no trace behind them . |
| 3 | There are many possible causes of trade cycles and we have only had time to consider some of the major ones in this chapter . |
| 4 | Perhaps having time was the right beginning ? |
| 5 | For many situations which you will face as a manager it is safe to assume that your audience may only have time to grasp perhaps just three ideas . |
| 6 | Roland do not necessarily have time to reply to letters where the course of action has already been explained in the handbook . |
| 7 | Prince , she suggests , never leaves the recording studio long enough to have time for anything romantic like a candelit dinner or taking lady-friends to the movies . |
| 8 | Apart from calling Blum ‘ the most dangerous man in Indo-China ’ de Lattre complained of all the ‘ missionary young men ’ the US was sending to Vietnam , of the way in which they undermined the idea of the French Union and , as he obviously had time to read the reports as soon as they were sent , he objected strenuously and in person to US correspondents who did not share his more exalted view of France 's mission in Indo-China . |
| 9 | " And you , Acorn , you dog-eared , dung-faced disgrace to a gamekeeper 's gibbet ; if I only had time to tell you — " |
| 10 | In the late nineteenth century , the pastime of rambling through open countryside had been restricted to those who not only had time at their disposal but also the financial capability to travel into rural areas . |
| 11 | There is nothing more tedious for the teacher than to hear one of his best students saying , after the examination : ‘ Oh , I did very well , but I only had time to answer half the paper . ’ |
| 12 | He only had time to read potted critical works now , with Finals a few weeks off . |
| 13 | Cleo only had time to jump backwards before the door opened . |
| 14 | I only had time to gasp in horror , before I saw that Heathcliff had caught him . |
| 15 | I only had time for fast food . |
| 16 | ‘ My money problems are only temporary , I 'd learn to drive if I only had time for the lessons , and you 'd be surprised at how many gadgets I 've learned to use and even repair during the past four years . |
| 17 | He walked off in front of her and Jenna had no choice at all ; she followed and only had time to glare at him reproachfully as he opened the door and stood aside for her , and then Marguerite was there . |
| 18 | He designed and built it specially for his wife because she 'd always wanted to live by the river , but she only had time to enjoy it for a few months before she died . |
| 19 | In fact I only had time now because I had left Rebecca parked in her pram outside the supermarket . |
| 20 | The former lorry driver is now busy exporting Krystom throughout Europe and his only regret is that he no longer has time to go fishing . |
| 21 | Islamey is a dangerous work with which to start a concert , the agitato semi-quavers of the opening bars requiring considerable precision from an orchestra which has not had time to warm up . |
| 22 | If you have not had time to object , contact the planning officer and ask for extra time . |
| 23 | As a child she had not had time for many fairy stories and did not now know them to tell to her daughter again , but instead she showed her the pictures . |
| 24 | Last night Mr Nick Lloyd , editor of the Daily Express , who had not been present at Tuesday 's meeting , said that the editors of Express Newspapers — the Daily and Sunday Express and the Star — and the publisher , Lord Stevens , had not had time to look closely at the proposals . |
| 25 | If Soviet historians have not had time to enter party and state archives , why not publish authoritative foreigners — Isaac Deutscher , E H Carr and Davies himself ? |
| 26 | However , this almost certainly indicates that each species has arisen in the relatively recent past ( usually by hybridization between existing sexual species ) , and has not had time to evolve any substantial variability . |
| 27 | Fru Blicher continued , ‘ We 've not had time to print Herr Eberhardt 's programme — in any case , he wants this to be a somewhat informal occasion — so Herr Eberhardt will introduce each of his songs himself . |
| 28 | It had been too speedily initiated for he had not had time to construct anything at all plausible . |
| 29 | Just on admission , a patient has not had time to make any necessary spatial adjustments . |
| 30 | Not really , perhaps such beings only recently ( less than 500 years ago ) developed radio communications or space vehicles , and the radio signals or vehicles have not had time to spread very far . |