Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Resolved not to waste further time on account of this childish affair , I contemplated departure via the french windows . |
| 2 | I started not having much time for the French and the Walloons , which is to say the French-speaking Belgians , when I found myself among them in 1944 . |
| 3 | ‘ The first chapter was enough , ’ snapped Mrs Frizzell indignantly , glad that she did not have to explain that she did not give much time to reading . |
| 4 | RICHIE did not waste any time in responding to Patrick 's appeal . |
| 5 | She always had so many places to go and so many people who wanted to see her that he felt cruelly his own stolid boringness , and was not surprised that she did not spend more time with him . |
| 6 | She revelled in the benefits of being married to the Queen 's second son and did not spend enough time on her duties . |
| 7 | There was , indeed , never a day , except when he was away on short holidays , during which he did not spend some time in her company , from the time of their first association in 1919 until her death in 1951 . |
| 8 | In his hurry to return to Italy the magistrate did not allow sufficient time for the necessary light exposure and , despite protests from the technicians , rushed off with the recording . |
| 9 | The Israeli Prime Minister , Itzhak Shamir , who was visiting Washington at the time the invitations were sent out , reacted angrily , stating that a Dec. 4 starting date did not allow enough time for Israel to prepare . |
| 10 | If the Policyholder was unaware of the faulty roof or did not have reasonable time in which to carry out repairs , then it is in order to deal with the claim for the damage to the internal decorations and/or contents but not the repairs to the roof , which the Policyholder should have carried out as soon as possible . |
| 11 | Mrs Thatcher did not have much time for the body and abolished it after the election victory in 1983 — an example perhaps of her dislike for so-called ‘ professional ’ advice that purports to be above party politics . |
| 12 | I am not quite sure who it was I sat next to because I am such a slow eater that I did not have much time for conversation . |
| 13 | But she did n't have to ask : Comrade Andrew did not have much time for Jasper . |
| 14 | So if you went much too fast on the steeplechase , you do not have extra time on phase C. Therefore , it is important to get the timing right . |
| 15 | This showed that in practice relatively few , one in ten , of those who had spent any time in residential homes were thought to have been admitted ‘ too late ’ ; this proportion was a quarter for those who had not spent any time in a residential home . |
| 16 | This was similar to the proportion receiving help from district and other nurses among those who had not spent any time in such homes once sudden deaths and those who had spent all their last year in hospital have been excluded . |
| 17 | Mr Young does not have much time for fancy patterns with three dimensional ‘ fiddly ’ bits . |
| 18 | ( This does not include travelling time to and from school . ) |
| 19 | For example , he tends to pitch in and sort things out for himself and does not spend enough time on man-management . |
| 20 | Insp Butler 's hobbies are tracing family trees and watching cricket , although he admits nowadays he does not get much time for either . |
| 21 | It is probable that we ask permission to use certain shots in the production , and as we have not got much time before the edit , I wonder if you could let us have 1″ PAL copies of these three films ? |
| 22 | ‘ No , he 's not got much time for anything but work . |