Example sentences of "we have [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Boy , did we have great times . |
| 2 | Not only do we have inadequate time to deal with important issues , but there is a real risk that unless the other place does its job properly the measures will reach the statute book fundamentally flawed in terms of banding and the special problem of high property values in London and the south-east . |
| 3 | What did we have last time ? |
| 4 | Indeed , we were so anxious to get the figures right that we had little time to spend explaining why what we proposed was morally necessary . |
| 5 | It meant however that we had little time to relate our studies at any deep level to Buddhism , but it seemed unanswerable that people must have a deep understanding of their own faith before they can go on to study that of other people . |
| 6 | We had good times when he was here before . |
| 7 | Not that we had much time for feeling anything , we were so busy in the Met Office just then . |
| 8 | We had grand times . |
| 9 | ‘ I wish you could have talked about this when we had more time , Adam . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ If we had more time I 'd take you up on that challenge you 're issuing , my lady , ’ he growled , in a voice that had gone dark and soft . |
| 11 | I had had nothing to read for three months , and now that we had some time to ourselves reading was a good way of distracting myself from the immediacies of life around me . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought perhaps things would be better if we had some time away from each other , so I agreed , even though it meant her taking time off from school before the end of term . |
| 13 | Oh no I we had some time off did n't we ? |
| 14 | You 're not now , oh right okay that 's fine , the er , what I want you to do instead of writing , I mean two hundred words is , is probably feel nothing , but in fact because we want er it to be absolutely right , what I 'd like you to do this time is just write an appraisal , the contents thing er that we had last time we had if you like , content and appraisal and audience , but audience was only er , a sentence or two , I 'd simply like a , an appraisal , what your view of this is , if you 're writing that part of the review , so we 're only thinking in terms of a hundred words now , er what I 'd like you to do is to distribute yourselves over the laboratory , erm go wherever you want but do n't start talking with people , it 's not the , not the Cribben thing I just want to get on with the exercise that I 'm concerned with and write your appraisal , but obviously put your name on it and er if we meet back here thirty five minutes is that long enough for under a hundred words of excellent quality ? |
| 15 | They ask about the short stories as if they really want them — none of that toffee-nosed ‘ we might conceivably ’ stuff we had last time . |
| 16 | We th to rehearse a little bit of the debate we had last time on speed cameras , th there was erm discussion about who should fund the camera themselves because being a , the Department of Transport and Home Office recommendation , that they should be funded by the police , but because of Mr 's question at full Council and the wish of this committee to spend some of this additional money if you like , or in ninety three four for safety related measures , it was thought wise to combine the two and actually try and fund a trial er package of speed cameras cos it 's , it 's about six sites and one camera , from the ninety three four budget that we 've actually found . |
| 17 | You were going to take on the ones we had last time . |
| 18 | I think they have more pedigree than the other team in that they were in the first division four years ago , erm so I think we can expect a harder game than we had last time . |
| 19 | We had the American band , we had the horse guards from London we brought them all up on the train , the horses and the guards and we had wonderful times ! |
| 20 | Yeah , at the beginning was when sort of got twenty minutes left to do it erm we were fine there and I think it was the beginning part was and then we started panicking then like sort of after that you said oh do you want five minutes or more and we all sort of looked at each other you know and we did n't feel that we had enough time erm so we just sort of really |
| 21 | Okay , it 's on the bottom , so if we had ten times , we made it ten times as big then we do n't get ten times the current we get one tenth . |
| 22 | resulted in the controllers making … a puritan attack directed at the drug taking of the ( underground ) movement ; and since the drug-scene is complex and confused , and we have little time in which to develop a reliable folk-lore about drugs and how to take them ( as we have long ago done about alcohol ) , they have been particularly successful in fostering anxiety among teachers , parents and establishment figures . |
| 23 | Because we are engaged in practical actions of great complexity , which we nevertheless ‘ pull off ’ day after day , we have little time to stand back and analyse how we do all the things that we do . |
| 24 | Unfortunately we have little time for digressions however entertaining they might be . |
| 25 | We have little time . |
| 26 | Erm if we overrun on Tuesday morning , then we have spare time in our programme for a week day . |
| 27 | Over the years we have many times benefited form the advice and support which the CCPR gives so generously . |
| 28 | We have six times as many swallows , if we have six swallows . |
| 29 | We have four times the space in our new lab and this , together with plans to extend technical equipment , will create a firm future in development . |
| 30 | Such women ( I include myself ) are probably a majority in the movement ( it was the sort of feeling that brought us into it in the first place , and anyway we have more time than mothers ) but not among women as a whole , most of whom appear to want to spend at least part of their lives having and raising children . |