Example sentences of "to have [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mother , preoccupied with paying the bills , seemed to have little time and energy for her children — particularly Graham who , as the only boy , was a bitter reminder of her husband . |
| 2 | I wondered how many adventures we were going to have this time . |
| 3 | Children too are well catered for , giving you the chance to have some time off as well . |
| 4 | You 'll want to have some time on your own with him . ’ |
| 5 | This morning 's episode at the flat had shaken her up quite a bit , and she needed desperately to have some time to herself in quiet surroundings . |
| 6 | I 've got to have some time alone . |
| 7 | We , we do find it as a , as a group very difficult to organise ourselves and for us to have some time to sit down together and feed off one another and talk about it so this is quite , that 's quite hopeful , and I think that does show erm , something the same as er , I 'm sure Jack would say the same thing , like here we are , you know , we 've got all the incoming calls , we 've got all the other stuff to do , and what we 're actually doing when we 're trying to make appointments and so on is we , we fit it in , because we 're half way through |
| 8 | I think you wanted them to have some time together but … but perhaps not most of the night , ’ she finished on a whisper . |
| 9 | The department has about 70 families and individuals acting as carers to give people chance to develop new interests and greater self-confidence and offering their families a chance to have some time to themselves . |
| 10 | A Duke of Aquitaine in the style of 1176 and 1179 was not going to have much time for customs which reflected the political realities of earlier days . |
| 11 | I had years in Latin America , the Far East , all over the place , and any time I came back to London , well , there was too much to do to have much time for somewhere like ffeatherstonehaugh 's , and anyway I was married by then and my wife would n't have approved . |
| 12 | Oh well you had to notif take doctor 's note in you see , oh yes er doctor 's note and erm we were allowed , but erm fortunately I did n't have to have much time off , I 've been really fortunate that way , but erm I do n't think I would do anything that 's different to what I have done because it 's hard to prepare me for how I am now that 's how I look at things , and er the trouble I had with my husband it 's helped me to prepare myself for doing the garden , I 'd done the front garden when the gardeners came this morning . |
| 13 | I seemed to have more time to get things together the second time and Fringe stayed beside Bob fairly smoothly to the end . |
| 14 | Recently we 'd been taking ten minutes a night off it in order to have more time in the pub . |
| 15 | The possibility of obtaining loans from the Phnom Penh museum was then followed up by the curator in Asian art at the ANG , Doctor Michael Brand : ‘ Normally it would have been the ANG 's desire to have more time , but 1992 was chosen because the Japanese were trying to borrow some objects for a show to be held in 1993 . |
| 16 | I seem to have more time for her than I had with them , and I still do my housework and all the washing . |
| 17 | You 're going to have more time than us by Christmas . |
| 18 | Professional : The family member may give progressively less attention to his or her own work because of the problems at home and may even change employment in order to have more time or opportunity to supervise the worsening chaos at home . |
| 19 | The skilled sportsman seems to have more time and to do things more slowly than the less skilled one . |
| 20 | Macca looked a class act , some great passing , and seemed to have more time on the ball than anyone else , but he did n't get into the game quite often enough . |
| 21 | Anybody from forty to forty nine , will pay three percent and then they 've got this strange idea that ladies over the age of fifty are going to have more time off work through illness , so they 're going to charge us four percent , and the men three percent . |
| 22 | He had been a deacon and church treasurer before coming to Darlington and he hopes in retirement to have more time for church work . |
| 23 | Robinson Crusoe was far too busy cultivating his island on the basis of hard work helped by all the capital goods he had salvaged from the shipwreck to have any time for fairy stories . |
| 24 | But with all these grandchildren and what have you , I do n't seem to have any time . |
| 25 | In a low and antagonistic frame of mind she accepted that Ace was never going to have any time for her . |