Example sentences of "had [not/n't] have time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It had been too speedily initiated for he had not had time to construct anything at all plausible . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Captain , having been at work since the call from the hospital at six , had not had time to read the morning paper . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She could never understand what he did with it , where it went — he had not had time for … that other life of his , he had been with Bert , with Jack ! |
| 10 | But they had not had time to implement then when , on 1 February 1979 , the ayatollah returned to Teheran in triumph like Lenin to the Finland Station . |
| 11 | He had not had time to compare more than a few paragraphs scattered throughout each text , but he had seen enough to know that their contents were practically identical . |
| 12 | Apart from the unfamiliarity of the entrances and exits and the other customary problems for the cast , Peter Hickton had not had time to complete the lighting plot , so much of that was being done in the course of the run , which meant endless waits while new lighting settings were agreed . |
| 13 | ‘ He may , it 's possible that … ’ the Archdeacon had not had time to formulate the appropriate phrases to describe events . |
| 14 | Loretta was irritated ; she had not had time to think that far ahead . |
| 15 | The heads reported an increase in the level of job satisfaction that they had experienced due to devolution — although one said he had n't had time to think about it ! |
| 16 | A magazine rack overflowed with rolled newspapers : they had obviously arrived by post , but many were unopened , as though Reid had n't had time to catch up with news that must have been at least a month old . |
| 17 | The coffee made by that blasted mother 's boy Sartini had been like water as usual and the Brigadier himself had n't had time to go home and shave . |
| 18 | Toby had n't had time to try the ‘ exclusive ’ story on the dirty mac brigade and they clustered about me and shouted the usual obvious questions . |
| 19 | Pascoe had n't had time to think it through , but he knew he would . |
| 20 | He simply had n't had time to lay one of his spectacular contingency plans or clever traps . |
| 21 | Some of the earlier aches had faded , and the new ones had n't had time to get settled in . |
| 22 | The evening before he had procured from the local library a copy of Gerald Seymour-Strachey 's essay in autobiography , but a quick flick through the index had assured him there was no mention of Walter Machin , and he had n't had time to bone up on the details of the man himself 's career . |
| 23 | He had n't had time to let it go . ’ |
| 24 | She had n't had time to notice them before . |
| 25 | She had n't had time to work out an answer to such a question . |
| 26 | But it struck me that I had n't had time to do this for ages . |
| 27 | Already back at work today , Mrs Williams said she had n't had time to be frightened . |
| 28 | She said , well I , I do n't know what to do , she said , I have n't read , you know , she had n't read the election , she had n't had time to read the election addresses , and she 's not really interested in ac actually so she has n't watched it on the television . |
| 29 | You know , I mean it 's quite realistic , if you can change a video , or even that if , if you 'd written , had n't had time for whatever reason , but , video , just point that out . |