Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [adj] 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 | When I had spare time , but if you 'd If it was decent weather you 'd have to give a hand in the garden at home you see ? |
| 4 | And I 've got to say this , in some cases I had additional time as a shop steward and a convenor , to spend on major problems er affecting the incentive scheme . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I had little time for more than a quick glance round the room . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Amid all these shattering events I had little time to try to find out what had happened to Eric . |
| 9 | However , I had little time to waste on Maté . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's alright , but I do wish I had more time to myself . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They would wait until I had more time . |
| 13 | I wish I had more time for reading ; it means a lot to me . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ I had some time off while I was working in Los Angeles and I was down by the hotel pool . |
| 16 | If I had some time on my own with them I might squeeze something out , but I 'm inhibited in front of the neighbours . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've more time for other beauties , ’ the young man responded and squatted comfortably , his back against the turf bank . |
| 20 | Not that I 've any time for him any longer — going on like that when his poor wife was near her time . ’ |
| 21 | Not that I 've any time for that widow of his . |
| 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 | He knows I have extra time off owing to me because my last holiday period was cut short when one of the staff became ill . |
| 25 | She said : ‘ I just want to make sure that , when I commit to it , I have enough time . |
| 26 | I have some time to spare and would like to sit down and read my copy of the biography of Berlioz . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | Probably this curiosity will be quite superficial , he thought to himself , as it is in me until I have more time to spend on it . |
| 29 | Except for Sting and George Michael ( 'wonderful voice , writes great songs ' ) , she has little time for most modern pop . |
| 30 | Particularly , she has little time for a group called Yello , the Swiss electro-band with whom she collaborated on a single last year , much in the way Liza Minelli and the Pet Shop Boys or Gene Pitney and Marc Almond have . |