Example sentences of "have [adv] have time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Islamey is a dangerous work with which to start a concert , the agitato semi-quavers of the opening bars requiring considerable precision from an orchestra which has not had time to warm up . |
| 2 | However , this almost certainly indicates that each species has arisen in the relatively recent past ( usually by hybridization between existing sexual species ) , and has not had time to evolve any substantial variability . |
| 3 | Just on admission , a patient has not had time to make any necessary spatial adjustments . |
| 4 | The person brought up in the city who has a natural and instinctive knowledge of the curative properties of herbs and wild flowers ; the person who experiences déjà vu or the one who seems to recognize a ‘ stranger ’ although the two have never met before ; the person born with talents he has not had time to acquire — is it not a possible explanation of the genius of such prodigies as Mozart that he actually brought with him skills and talents he had learnt in a previous lifetime ? |
| 5 | Launching into the logical approach when someone has not had time or does not have the information to assess your credibility is unwise . |
| 6 | Mark Flannagan , formerly Director of ASH Workplace Services , has been promoted to this post and has not had time to snatch a wink of sleep since . |
| 7 | As the Prime Minister has now had time to appreciate the significance that Scots attach to the phrase ’ taking stock ’ , will he elaborate on what that means in the Scottish constitutional set-up ? |
| 8 | Clare has seen it , although she probably has n't had time to read it fully . |
| 9 | She has n't had time to have any freedom yet . ’ |
| 10 | has n't had time to shave . |
| 11 | The boy who began to convert souls while our future rectors and curates were deep in criticism , history and examination subjects , and who has never had time to go to school or university since , is not impeccable in taste . |
| 12 | Xanthe spread out the soft folds of her skirt and looked at them as Miranda quickly splashed water into her armpits , round her neck , on her face , muttering , ‘ I wish I 'd just had time to wash my hair . ’ |
| 13 | In the old days she 'd not had time to think about anything except how to keep out of trouble . |
| 14 | I 'd been doing press and touring and all that lot for two years without a break , I 'd not had time to change or take anything in . ’ |
| 15 | The realization that she was working for Hauser was opening new horizons for her , but she 'd not had time to work out how she could exploit the knowledge . |
| 16 | She 'd also had time to castigate herself for meekly following him inside . |
| 17 | He surfaced , briefly , but the swell rolled him over and drove him down again before he 'd even had time to draw breath . |
| 18 | Fortunately the Aer Lingus 737 had delivered her from Heathrow in less than an hour , so she 'd barely had time to become bored . |
| 19 | Of course , he 'd never had time to make friends . |
| 20 | Even though she had only had time to glimpse the devastation that had been wrought , she knew that it had been a professional job , carried out by men who would leave no trace behind them . |
| 21 | You 've scarcely had time to see a thing . ’ |
| 22 | But I had meanwhile had time to think . |
| 23 | As a child she had not had time for many fairy stories and did not now know them to tell to her daughter again , but instead she showed her the pictures . |
| 24 | Last night Mr Nick Lloyd , editor of the Daily Express , who had not been present at Tuesday 's meeting , said that the editors of Express Newspapers — the Daily and Sunday Express and the Star — and the publisher , Lord Stevens , had not had time to look closely at the proposals . |
| 25 | It had been too speedily initiated for he had not had time to construct anything at all plausible . |
| 26 | Some British officers had been sent to help the Madeirans with their resistance , but they had arrived only a few days before the Portuguese troops landed and had not had time to organize . |
| 27 | The publication day of Hank Stych 's book went unremarked in Tollemarche , mainly because the only bookseller in the town had not had time to unpack his new stock , and book reviews were featured only once a month in the Tollemarche Advent and then only in an obscure corner of an inner page . |
| 28 | The Captain , having been at work since the call from the hospital at six , had not had time to read the morning paper . |
| 29 | Even the Republic had felt far from confident about forming a long-term colonial policy ; Cromwell 's Council had invited merchants to say what should be done , but had not had time to do much more than conquer Jamaica and revive the East India Company . |
| 30 | In the event , part of the collection was left to the museum at Charleroi , near Magritte 's home town ; another part went to the Pompidou Centre 's Musée National d'Art Moderne , while the painter 's remaining works , house and surrealist library were left ownerless : his widow had not had time to stipulate how they should be divided . |