Example sentences of "i [adv] have time " in BNC.

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1 " And you , Acorn , you dog-eared , dung-faced disgrace to a gamekeeper 's gibbet ; if I only had time to tell you — "
2 There is nothing more tedious for the teacher than to hear one of his best students saying , after the examination : ‘ Oh , I did very well , but I only had time to answer half the paper . ’
3 I only had time to gasp in horror , before I saw that Heathcliff had caught him .
4 I only had time for fast food .
5 ‘ My money problems are only temporary , I 'd learn to drive if I only had time for the lessons , and you 'd be surprised at how many gadgets I 've learned to use and even repair during the past four years .
6 In fact I only had time now because I had left Rebecca parked in her pram outside the supermarket .
7 I scarcely had time to close it before he was upon me .
8 I just had time for a quick glance into its shelf-ridden depths before it closed , and I saw room after room , opening vistas of eternal reading to my gaze .
9 When we were about twenty yards away from them an old woman turned and saw us. I just had time to see the panic on her face before the driver applied the brakes .
10 I knew I had to go back to hospital but I just had time to see my mother and sister off and to help my father close up grandmother 's house and to see uncle Henry take her off to the station , with destination Somerset .
11 " I just had time to think " Thank God it was n't my teeth " . "
12 I just had time to dive into the nearest ditch , dropping the bicycle on the road , before I heard another shower of bullets .
13 But it was too slow , or too stupid : I just had time to grab her angles and pull her away .
14 We called briefly at Gibraltar where I just had time to walk up the Rock and see the apes .
15 I still had time to kill , so I thought I 'd make a couple of ‘ phone calls and that meant employing the Middleditch gambit .
16 I always leave a minimum of one and a half hours so that if I have a blow-out or breakdown or some other unforeseen emergency , I still have time to take care of it and catch the plane .
17 I still have time for girlfriends .
18 I also had time to look around during the year and consider colours and character of growth .
19 I also have time to reflect on my own job and go back with energy and enthusiasm . ’
20 And before I even had time to wonder if Tony So per himself had slept between these very army blankets , I was asleep .
21 I barely had time to notice that Masha was wearing Circassian trousers before she was in my arms , kissing my cheeks ; and Surkov was pumping my hand warmly .
22 I never heard a thing until maybe the last two steps he took , I never had time to turn .
23 ‘ Let me tell you , I never had time to misbehave .
24 Presumably because I was too young , and because life was so full in other ways that I never had time or any real reason to question it .
25 I never had time for fun when I was your age !
26 I never have time to enjoy myself
27 I like a good thriller myself but I never have time to read them . ’
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