Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] n't get the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have n't got the time to meet girls ’ |
| 2 | I 'm very aware there 's lots of johs I ought to do — I used to be pretty thorough — and there are things I have n't got the time to do . |
| 3 | And she said , ‘ You know , I 'll have to look in this trunk here , but I have n't got the time , I must be off now … ’ . |
| 4 | If I have n't got the time I 'll make time . |
| 5 | Listen if I had enough time I 'll tell you the joke of a life time mate , but I have n't got the time . |
| 6 | I have n't got the time . |
| 7 | but I might not pass , I have n't got the time and difficult when I 'm working I ca n't |
| 8 | I have n't got the time nor the energy , I mean not so much |
| 9 | ‘ She had n't got the time ! |
| 10 | Our housework was hard and long and laborious and erm we 'd got two children to look after and then I 'd got my brother who did n't leave home until he was thirty and er , you had n't got the time , you know , to do too many things , so er my interest was the young wives ' and it was really a as regards the erm the Guild itself , I was thrown in at the deep end when this lady who was with my mother , mother was treasurer , she was secretary , erm she used to come down for me and , I know you should n't canvass but she used to canvass and say erm you know the voting , you know , will you , will you come and vote ? |
| 11 | erm I E you 've got an enormous area where sometimes you 're moving in very quickly , and particularly in Manchuria y you 're trying to get there extremely quickly , and you , you have n't got the time to build up that kind of infrastructure , but that is gon na come later . |
| 12 | The person was older than me and he 's a bit higher up the rank than me and it 's all about it probably comes with experience he 's to stand for yourself really but it 's when you 're our age and a bit younger you do n't want to be seen to be rocking the boat if there 's something that 's going on that you do n't agree with but you 're asked to do something that you do n't want to do valid reasons you have n't got the time or it 's not really up to you to do it |
| 13 | ‘ You have n't got the time . |
| 14 | The final word on Tony Iommi 's custom-built JD guitar has to come from John Diggins himself : ‘ Apart from the fact that Tony 's been threatening to take me out for a drink ever since I 've known him , things have changed a lot , and now we do n't get the time to get together any more . |
| 15 | So the actual timings are as follows you have five minutes preparation before each role play to get yourself together there 's fifteen minutes role play which is recorded but there 's no playbacks , we have n't got the time unfortunately . |
| 16 | Now there are tighter ways of actual sales negotiations but we have n't got the time to go into it today . |
| 17 | ‘ They do n't get the time to turn out a script of real quality . |
| 18 | As sprinter Mike MacFarlane said of his parents ' total lack of encouragement : ‘ It was 'cause they had n't got the time to think about it . ’ |
| 19 | There are of course exceptions of those who are neither councillors nor magistrates er and are prepared to do these jobs , but there are n't very many in relation to er the numbers of people that would be required for this sort of task and there are many other activities for which there are required , like school governors who like helping on various health bodies and er they have n't got the time to do them all , and if they have , they probably are n't suitable , because I have to my Lords that a lord of people who volunteer for these sorts of tasks and I have experience of them are n't people that locally we would like to have sitting on these various bodies and we have to discourage them one way and another . |
| 20 | And if you come from a family that do n't bother and they have n't got the time to show you how to do things , or do things with you , and do n't send you to a nursery school then you start you know just I suppose like what they do is . |
| 21 | But then , Derek said they have n't got the time |
| 22 | Yeah , but you see , they have n't got the time to do |
| 23 | He says he has n't got the time to spend — they 'll need evenings and evenings , far more than once a week . |
| 24 | you know , so I 'm , I mean I , I , you know , I know that , and I know he has n't got the time so |
| 25 | Well that 's it , it 's like my husband I mean he 's working , he has n't got the time and I |