Example sentences of "have time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In both cases this is a real emergency , because in the event of a cable break the pilot does not have time to realise what is wrong , and he may well stall and spin if he flies by attitude and tries to turn without checking the actual speed . |
| 2 | Young people were afraid , wondering if they would have time to have their children , and became agitated at the racheting-up of international tensions in East and West . |
| 3 | I stayed home so we 'd have time this evening . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't have time for lunch , ’ said Sara . |
| 5 | Pity I did n't have time to make bouillabaisse . |
| 6 | ‘ The last thing a Secretary of State would normally have time to do is to see if the Historic Royal Palaces are being run in a way to maximise profit . ’ |
| 7 | But we 'll all be so busy reading all this wonderful stuff , and learning from the big bad world about how to market it , that we wo n't have time to do anything else . ’ |
| 8 | We did n't have time to play on the beach or in the streets with the other kids . |
| 9 | The impression I have is that once the Brabham-taming begins he wo n't have time to speak to us again , never mind buy lunches . |
| 10 | But really , I think , it 's the case that , in this job , you do n't have time to develop obsessions , what with the insane turnover , and all the incentives to pluralism . |
| 11 | Tony did n't have time to waste booking him as a support act or doing a club circuit or anything like that . |
| 12 | He does n't have time for all this . ’ |
| 13 | Politicians do n't have time to read screeds , so you have to give them short , pithy things to look at , We were doing all this anyway , of course , but the chaps at Barton , including Andy , are working on it much more effectively since we were able to say definitely that the DTI civil servants were agin them . |
| 14 | ‘ The good ones do n't have time for long drunken lunches , and you get better results by getting them to give you and the client a sandwich in a bar at six p.m . |
| 15 | He did n't like the sound of that much , so he changed his mind and said he might not have time , anyway , after his other reading in a church hall . |
| 16 | ‘ See , she 's an usherette now , so she do n't have time for me no more . ’ |
| 17 | Must have time to think . ’ |
| 18 | Some commentators get so excited about identifying the stuff with an excretion of insects living on twigs of the tamarisk , that they do not have time for much else . |
| 19 | ‘ You wo n't have time for all this stuff when we get home again , what with the oven to clean and everything , ’ he persisted . |
| 20 | This sharp differentiation , and the various impulses and societal shifts which encouraged it ( which unfortunately we do not have time to go into here ) was quite different from the situation which pertained t.n earlier Hebrew history . |
| 21 | Hard-working farmers and country people do n't always have time to appreciate the beauty in a line of animals on the move . |
| 22 | If you do not have time to prepare breakfast it should not matter . |
| 23 | What if one day you just do not have time ? |
| 24 | The question is therefore asked with an implication attached to it of ‘ do I have to start getting really worried now or do I have time to adjust to this bad news ? ’ |
| 25 | I feel there are a lot more important things in life than looking good , and in countries where life is harder you do n't have time to worry about such things , you 're too busy working or preparing the next meal . |
| 26 | It needs a very large orchestra and I needed a lot of rehearsals so that I could have time to explain the piece fully to the orchestra . |
| 27 | That 's why I have a manager and people to do things for me , because some things I just do n't have time to do myself . |
| 28 | ‘ If you do n't want or do n't have time to haggle , ’ says Mr Latif , ‘ you should make sure you buy your carpet , your jewellery , or your woodwork from a fixed-price store . |
| 29 | ‘ Most of the time we were so busy rushing the posters out that we did n't have time to read them or think about what they said , ’ said Mr Mark Roblett , 27 , the elder of the two brothers whose south London company came to the aid of both parties . |
| 30 | Just before Christmas I had to go to Windsor , and did n't have time to get to the surgery to fill up . |