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

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1 Except for Sting and George Michael ( 'wonderful voice , writes great songs ' ) , she has little time for most modern pop .
2 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 .
3 He retains the influence , if not the constitutional power , of a feudal monarch , has little time for Dr Mahathir and is related by marriage to the leader of Semangat '46 .
4 The aggressiveness and competitiveness of capitalism has little time for his Christian sensibilities .
5 And , like Amy , Chelsea has little time for affairs of state .
6 Examples of this reciprocal effect lie in the man who is engrossed in his work to the detriment of his married life or the woman who is so wrapped up in her children that she has little time for her husband .
7 David Pool has little time for the mystification of artists and their art , and his sole intent is to see the momentum of improvement roll of regardless of fragile egos .
8 Waggoner supports the first theory , but has little time for the whiners .
9 He may be an MBE , but Moorhouse has little time for Britain 's sporting establishment .
10 Mr Houghton has come across protests , but has little time for their case or their tactics .
11 Like many women who have crashed through the glass ceiling — or , perhaps , ignored it — she is strongly opposed to positive discrimination in favour of women and has little time for the argument that women do n't succeed because they are women .
12 This is not to say that she has much time for the developers ' current products .
13 and I do n't think anybody has more time in in four weeks time
14 Needless to say , with such a busy schedule none of them has any time for girlfriends .
15 No , the only buggers Sam Snort has any time for are the boys down in the gay bars who have affectively tendered their resignation from the Snortian fields of romantic endeavour .
16 My father was like that , the ‘ parfit gentle knight ’ , who would hurt no one , believed in honour , truth , courtesy , all those old-fashioned virtues that no one has any time for .
17 Nobody , apart from Sir Edward Heath , has any time for the drizzle of petty regulations of the EC nor for the scandal of the Common Agricultural Policy , but all the energies of the Conservative whips are being employed to enforce Euro-allegiance .
18 He always has enough time for Lennie and when Lennie speaks George always listens , no matter when .
19 For the last year , I have had little time for writing , though I get something down on paper when I can .
20 She had always suspected that he 'd had little time for any brain power that she might possess — just as she had always known that her chief value for him had been the almost instantaneous sexual desire they had felt for each other .
21 Such has been the pace of South Africa 's re-entry into the world arena that Rhodes and his team mates have had little time to be overawed by the situation , which for a youngster from a small town in Natal is quite remarkable .
22 Scotland has never had much time for earthquakes : the national football team already has a monopoly on disasters .
23 You have n't had much time for domestic life of late , have you ?
24 I have never had much time for the more esoteric confections you find all over the place .
25 What with one thing and another she had n't had much time for sleep last night .
26 And she had never had much time for Angela Cartwright , who , when it came to Grunte , tended to run with the hare , though it was plain enough that she had been put out by Grunte 's placing Hyacinth on his right hand and had agreed with Carole afterwards that they would have little trouble finding the necessary fifty signatures .
27 ‘ I guess I have n't had much time for … fun . ’
28 Both people entering unemployment as a result of losing a temporary job and people taking temporary jobs as a way out of unemployment seemed more likely to have taken a number of jobs , to have experienced a number of spells of unemployment , to have had less time in work and more time in unemployment than people becoming unemployed for other reasons , or managing to obtain a permanent job on leaving unemployment .
29 I think if I had had more time to myself when I first retired I would n't have made that mistake and would have looked for interests nearer home .
30 Since I retired I 've had more time on my hands and I pass it , you might say , in reading and reflection on my area of interest .
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