Example sentences of "[pron] have [det] time " in BNC.

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1 Needless to say , with such a busy schedule none of them has any time for girlfriends .
2 ‘ May I have some time ? ’ ‘
3 I had little time for more than a quick glance round the room .
4 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 .
5 Amid all these shattering events I had little time to try to find out what had happened to Eric .
6 However , I had little time to waste on Maté .
7 ‘ It 's alright , but I do wish I had more time to myself . ’
8 In the days when I had more time to spare I would read any book I could lay my hands on and particularly enjoyed anything about foreign lands .
9 They would wait until I had more time .
10 I wish I had more time for reading ; it means a lot to me . ’
11 I went out to the theatre and the opera a lot , and when I had some time off , I was usually able to get away somewhere .
12 I had some time off while I was working in Los Angeles and I was down by the hotel pool .
13 If I had some time on my own with them I might squeeze something out , but I 'm inhibited in front of the neighbours .
14 When I was in the U.S. recently for the Walker Cup match I had some time to read their golf magazines , watch television golf and talk with some of the golf club members of my father-in-law 's country club .
15 Listen if I had enough time I 'll tell you the joke of a life time mate , but I have n't got the time .
16 Another dream that I had several times was that I would sacrifice my life to save others .
17 I 've more time for other beauties , ’ the young man responded and squatted comfortably , his back against the turf bank .
18 Not that I 've any time for him any longer — going on like that when his poor wife was near her time . ’
19 Not that I 've any time for that widow of his .
20 I have many times entered into the place that is called , and rightly , the Gateway to Hell .
21 I freely admit that I have many times adopted Jim Oakley 's precept of a " bloody good gallop " , often with spectacular results .
22 She heard that : — — Papa is grown stout and has need of bigger trousers but Mama cries he is more handsome than ever and so do I. I have little time my Lily to write because I am put to Latin with the Abbe which is sore hard work and gives me the headache .
23 The status sub-text here is ‘ I have little time to talk to you ’ or ‘ I 'm a person who is very much in demand . ’
24 She said : ‘ I just want to make sure that , when I commit to it , I have enough time .
25 I have some time to spare and would like to sit down and read my copy of the biography of Berlioz .
26 I HAVE several times told the story of the lady who came up to me at the end of one of my lectures on the relationship between science and music and said , ‘ It 's all very well doing all these scientific tests on musical instruments but can you explain the tingle in the spine that some music produces ? ’
27 A note for teetotallers : I have several times eaten another modern version of this dish in which black coffee rather than wine is used for flavouring the dried fruit .
28 I have several times spoken of an " instantaneous effect upon B as a result of a measurement made on A. Is this not in flagrant contradiction to Einstein 's rule that signals do not travel faster than the velocity of light ?
29 I have several times noticed a certain … animosity between him and Dieter Erdle .
30 As a result of that I 'm learning more now than I ever have , even though I have less time in which to do so . ’
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