Example sentences of "hardly have time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been so busy with her dress house in Rome , coping with her designer , planning for the future and ensuring that everyone in the business was kept happy — each of which seemed a full-time job in itself — that she had hardly had time to spare for her three children , let alone her mother . |
| 2 | I had hardly had time to consider this problem : rip P J O'Rourke off , or get dressed , before the pilot jerked us into a vertical dive ? |
| 3 | We 've hardly had time to do anything , and now that you 're looking so wonderful … . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 've hardly had time to open it yet . |
| 5 | Later while being dragged through the house she had noted the dark hair , the strongly built body , but had hardly had time to consider the possible age and attractiveness of her irate and unwilling host . |
| 6 | Geraldine hardly had time to boil the kettle , to make a cup of coffee , to toast a slice of bread between shots of Alan being rescued , wearing a blanket and sitting up in bed in pyjamas . |
| 7 | Mackintosh hardly had time to notice the notices , on his way to open Les Miserables in Manchester , England , and then on to Tokyo for Miss Saigon . |
| 8 | It seemed an eternity before Dad arrived home at one o'clock and he hardly had time to get indoors before I blurted out just what I had discovered . |
| 9 | She felt guilty , but she could say with a clear conscience that her business was so demanding that she hardly had time to think of Northumberland although , in truth , as her successes and problems in Italy had increased , there seemed less and less reason to return to Nora . |
| 10 | He returned to England in the latter half of June and hardly had time to catch up with outstanding work before going into hospital in July to undergo the postponed operation upon his hernia . |
| 11 | He hardly had time to dwell on such matters , however . |
| 12 | On his return on 19 November , he hardly had time to catch up with his unfinished business before he was off to Brussels to deliver yet another lecture . |
| 13 | Using the tides to his advantage , he had beaten to windward across St Austell Bay as far as Deadman Point , and to his crew of six who manned the sheets and tended the lines , it had seemed that he had some magic way with him : every time they lost the fish , he would put about and find the shoal again , so that his lads hardly had time to swallow a hunk of bread or a gill of ale from one end of the day to the other . |
| 14 | With two of the office down with chicken-pox , she hardly had time to think these days , let alone relax . |
| 15 | That autumn was so busy for Seb he hardly had time to think his own thoughts . |
| 16 | I sort of sprang it on you back in the studio , so you hardly had time to think . ’ |
| 17 | Still a few sea bass here , though they 're so delicious that they hardly have time to freeze . |
| 18 | A body does n't look like the product of a loose and temporary federation of warring genetic agents who hardly have time to get acquainted before embarking in sperm or egg for the next leg of the great genetic diaspora . |