Example sentences of "[vb pp] time for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gershuny ( 1982 ) reported that these have saved time for working-class households and challenged the widespread contrary belief , instanced by Bowlby ( 1984 ) , that technology has not in fact cut domestic labour . |
| 2 | When she occasionally visited him in London or Stuttgart , she always found him busy , although he would certainly have made time for a new lover , and he did put himself out to entertain his cousin Petrie who , with his wife , turned up unexpectedly in Stuttgart during a travelling holiday . |
| 3 | But I got talking to one of them and he told me he 'd just come out of prison where he 'd done time for soliciting . |
| 4 | From a hot-head who has done time for killing a man , he develops into a union organiser who discovers the eloquence his new role demands . |
| 5 | Mahmud may have bought time for himself , but he stored up trouble for his successors . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There was a very affected couple , Erwin and Pam , who were expert at creaming off the best for themselves — and as they were in their mid-thirties , they had had time for some practice . |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | Because we 've been talking for a while so had time for it to evaporate . |
| 10 | Had she lived , I felt sure he would not have had time for me . |
| 11 | For I liked — I was amazed , never yet having had time for or interest in such delights — I liked to be touched by him . |
| 12 | After her small bedroom at home , where beloved old ornaments belonging once to her mother jostled for space with a basket of ironing she had n't yet had time for , and nursing textbooks that would n't fit on her one small bookshelf , or her room at the nurses ' home , where exotic travel posters — gleaned from a travel agent next to her father 's hardware shop — could n't disguise the institutional plainness of the furnishings , this room seemed palatial . |
| 13 | Castlerock 's 1,500 residents , the majority of them Protestants , have never had time for sectarianism and division . |
| 14 | ‘ I hope you 've had time for other things as well ? ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | For the ‘ Ottoman ’ show , Turkey has approved time for three four-month venues that are still being negotiated . |
| 17 | Curve have n't got time for apathy — there 's got to be some attitude to your music . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It is not that I have n't got time for girls . |
| 19 | She had n't got time for this . |
| 20 | Got time for a couple of hours , then a quick pint at the local , while Juliet gets the lunch . |
| 21 | never went to me spare bit of paper probably eventually but he had n't got time for that . |
| 22 | Have we got time for a drink ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , come on , you 've got time for a cup of tea , surely ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I just have n't got time for you , do you understand ? ’ |
| 25 | He is very meticulous and quite demanding , and has n't got time for people who do n't know their job . ’ |
| 26 | Okay thanks very much indeed that 's all we 've got time for , thank you . |
| 27 | Five minute tea break , breath of fresh air , have n't got time for a cigarette though , unless you 're very , very quick . |
| 28 | ‘ We ai n't got time for a drink , ’ he says . |
| 29 | I have n't got time for a full match report but Wetheral , and indeed the whole back four , played exceptionally well . |
| 30 | We ai n't got time to think about it , I have n't got time for all that . |