Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | been attacked over the last few months of not wasting time on the hunt I spend an awful lot of time relieving heavy goods traffic in my area , concerned totally about the environment , about mineral extraction quarries , mining , open cast , things of that calibre . |
| 2 | Almost two centuries later it was being proposed that in much the same way every Spanish ambassador should have assigned to him a son or younger brother " to assist him as a comrade in his work " , be instructed in the conduct of embassy business and handle matters the ambassador himself could not spare time for , with the implication that he might well succeed to the post if it fell vacant . |
| 3 | I have waited hours here , usually on the north side , until called forward to the ferry boat and never regretted the delay ; anyone with an eye for impressive beauty will not regard time spent at Kylesku as wasted . |
| 4 | I am aware that you are much more concerned in the matter , which I am going to lay before you , than your Mother , yet I should not have troubled you with it , except through her , had it not been of Importance not to lose time . |
| 5 | The gulls that screeched warning to their fellows as she approached too near their territory frightened her , but since this was not nesting time , none spat . |
| 6 | Sayre intentionally did not include time and movement information in his encoding scheme . |
| 7 | Similarly the seller under a contract of sale might undertake to use best endeavours to deliver the goods on time : The Sellers will use their best endeavours to secure delivery of the goods on the estimated delivery dates from time to time furnished , but they do not guarantee time of delivery . |
| 8 | If the present article can not answer every question raised by Carse , it will answer this one : ‘ did they [ at the Opéra ] or did they not beat time with a baton throughout the whole opera ? ’ ( p.311 ) . |
| 9 | Mr Rushdie also met federal parliamentarians in Ottawa , and although he was not granted time with the Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney , he said that his reception by the External Affairs Minister Barbara McDougall encouraged him to believe that Canada was firmly behind the campaign to get the death sentence lifted . |
| 10 | The right hon. Gentleman did not provide time for such a debate because he did not want to embarrass the Tory party so close to a general election . |
| 11 | Islamey is a dangerous work with which to start a concert , the agitato semi-quavers of the opening bars requiring considerable precision from an orchestra which has not had time to warm up . |
| 12 | If you have not had time to object , contact the planning officer and ask for extra time . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | If Soviet historians have not had time to enter party and state archives , why not publish authoritative foreigners — Isaac Deutscher , E H Carr and Davies himself ? |
| 16 | However , this almost certainly indicates that each species has arisen in the relatively recent past ( usually by hybridization between existing sexual species ) , and has not had time to evolve any substantial variability . |
| 17 | Fru Blicher continued , ‘ We 've not had time to print Herr Eberhardt 's programme — in any case , he wants this to be a somewhat informal occasion — so Herr Eberhardt will introduce each of his songs himself . |
| 18 | It had been too speedily initiated for he had not had time to construct anything at all plausible . |
| 19 | Just on admission , a patient has not had time to make any necessary spatial adjustments . |
| 20 | Not really , perhaps such beings only recently ( less than 500 years ago ) developed radio communications or space vehicles , and the radio signals or vehicles have not had time to spread very far . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've not had time to consider … had other plans … not sure … ’ |
| 22 | In the old days she 'd not had time to think about anything except how to keep out of trouble . |
| 23 | The person brought up in the city who has a natural and instinctive knowledge of the curative properties of herbs and wild flowers ; the person who experiences déjà vu or the one who seems to recognize a ‘ stranger ’ although the two have never met before ; the person born with talents he has not had time to acquire — is it not a possible explanation of the genius of such prodigies as Mozart that he actually brought with him skills and talents he had learnt in a previous lifetime ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I 've not had time to celebrate but the champagne corks will be popping on Sunday night if we beat Leigh . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Launching into the logical approach when someone has not had time or does not have the information to assess your credibility is unwise . |
| 28 | I 'd been doing press and touring and all that lot for two years without a break , I 'd not had time to change or take anything in . ’ |
| 29 | The Captain , having been at work since the call from the hospital at six , had not had time to read the morning paper . |
| 30 | The realization that she was working for Hauser was opening new horizons for her , but she 'd not had time to work out how she could exploit the knowledge . |