Example sentences of "had [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They lost 203-186 on aggregate , and on the long cost-saving coach drive back to Lancashire the players had ample time to contrast their status with that of Monaco . |
| 2 | His father was a farmer with advanced agricultural views who lived until the age of 88 , so that his son , who farmed with him , had ample time and restless energy to travel the country and buy pigs , sheep , horses and cattle with the aim of deliberately improving them . |
| 3 | After O-levels there was still a month of term to go , a month in which I had ample time to devote myself to my obsession . |
| 4 | However , the tilting process and inundation that accompanied it were so gradual that most existing forms of wildlife had ample time to escape from or adapt to the changes . |
| 5 | After school my father used to accompany him on his rounds in the car , and during these journeys they had ample time to exchange ideas without being overheard . |
| 6 | In her shorthand book , WPC Wright had ample time to write the word that Downes now shrieked ; write it in in long-hand , and in capitals . |
| 7 | Further , Lorca , a gifted painter and pianist , had little time for the academic qua academe . |
| 8 | With the exception of Hitchcock , whom they worshipped , they had little time for accepted and acclaimed directors , finding more value in the more commercial movies of , for instance , Howard Hawks and Raoul Walsh . |
| 9 | AUSTRALIA 's best-known businessman and yachtsman , Alan Bond , had little time to savour his victory in Australia 's premier yacht race , the Sydney to Hobart . |
| 10 | But , after that , they had little time to spend together , little to say to one another . |
| 11 | Indeed , we were so anxious to get the figures right that we had little time to spend explaining why what we proposed was morally necessary . |
| 12 | For a while they made so much work for the bailiffs that they had little time to harass the Nonconformists . |
| 13 | School , especially for unskilled youths , was where you learnt that society had little time for you . |
| 14 | I had little time for more than a quick glance round the room . |
| 15 | It was lucky for her that she was so busy just then , as she had little time to think during the day , and at night she was so tired that she fell asleep directly she got into bed . |
| 16 | Also he had little time . |
| 17 | Those who still thought in terms of a rural peasant Poland dominated by the feudal power of the szlachta and the Church had little time to adapt their vision . |
| 18 | This was a challenging task even for an accomplished side which had little time to acclimatise or practise . |
| 19 | This reinforced my interest in the subject , but as I soon became involved in postgraduate studies in busy medical , surgical and then paediatric units I had little time to pursue it at that stage . |
| 20 | Medicine was riddled with superstition and ignorance and Hahnemann had little time for blood-letting , either by venesection or the application of leeches ; the violent purges with emetics and enemas , aimed at ridding the body of the disease-producing influences ; and the host of concoctions of various substances , many of which , such as arsenic or mercury , were highly toxic . |
| 21 | Not all Ruth 's time with the other servants was disagreeable , but she quickly found that Millfield 's own staff had little time for the servants of visitors , especially anyone they thought might consider themselves superior . |
| 22 | WHEN a rare lung infection ended Jim Henson 's life , his son Brian had little time for grief . |
| 23 | He was uninterested in politics and , like the other members of his family , had little time for sectarian prejudice . |
| 24 | He had little time to see them , to know them ; like others ' children , they were left to a nurse and Mrs Gracie . |
| 25 | It meant however that we had little time to relate our studies at any deep level to Buddhism , but it seemed unanswerable that people must have a deep understanding of their own faith before they can go on to study that of other people . |
| 26 | While engaged in this intensive study of a narrow range of the English language , the students had little time for anything else . |
| 27 | This may have been characterised by a mystic other-worldliness which had little time for the concerns of this world , and the working out of faith in relation to the everyday challenges of life . |
| 28 | Although she had little time to help organize the newspaper project , as she buzzed around discussing it with friends and jotting down ideas it began to get up steam . |
| 29 | He was probably very frustrated too as his bride , who had little time to be with him , was struggling to keep two homes running . |
| 30 | In place of God-consciousness , for which he had little time , he wanted to put on the one hand the revelation made in Jesus and recoverable through the historical study of the New Testament , and on the other the moral and spiritual response to Jesus which issues in Christian living and acting . |