Example sentences of "had [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further , Lorca , a gifted painter and pianist , had little time for the academic qua academe . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But , after that , they had little time to spend together , little to say to one another . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | For a while they made so much work for the bailiffs that they had little time to harass the Nonconformists . |
| 7 | School , especially for unskilled youths , was where you learnt that society had little time for you . |
| 8 | I had little time for more than a quick glance round the room . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Also he had little time . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This was a challenging task even for an accomplished side which had little time to acclimatise or practise . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | WHEN a rare lung infection ended Jim Henson 's life , his son Brian had little time for grief . |
| 17 | He was uninterested in politics and , like the other members of his family , had little time for sectarian prejudice . |
| 18 | He had little time to see them , to know them ; like others ' children , they were left to a nurse and Mrs Gracie . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | While engaged in this intensive study of a narrow range of the English language , the students had little time for anything else . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He was probably very frustrated too as his bride , who had little time to be with him , was struggling to keep two homes running . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He had little time for the confusion that the Council had appeared to generate in many parts of the Church . |
| 26 | The BUF had little time for the reactionary tone of Die-hard conservatism , and its anti-semitism was derived from social and economic grievances rather than from an ideological tradition . |
| 27 | Carrie was hard put to it and she had little time to talk with him , but it was not long before Billy turned up at the cafe eager to see his friend and Carrie directed him into the back room . |
| 28 | Dr Jean Robertson , a GP for 26 years , originally had little time for the notion of psychic healing until an experience at the funeral of her nineteen year-old daughter , who died of cancer four years ago . |
| 29 | Staff who had long been encouraged to develop treatment relationships towards prisoners had little time left for this important work after discharging tasks arising from the need to concentrate on security . |
| 30 | An addict of the pipe herself , she had little time for her son — the only one of three to survive — and left his rearing to her own mother . |