Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shall not give way to my hon. Friend , as I believe that I have done so once already and I have only a little time left . |
| 2 | I loved him , as much as an alien can entertain love for a being on a green planet where she knows she has only a certain time . |
| 3 | The ballroom had been thrown wide to accommodate the funeral guests , and Mrs Diggory was busy serving refreshments to the gentlemen who had just a short time since returned from the graveside of the deceased Lady Merchiston . |
| 4 | Panic will not be too far away if having collected all your information you have only a little time to write the speech . |
| 5 | If the ERM continues to impose on this country an unemployment rate 750,000 above what it would otherwise be — and that is the average for Europe — we have only a short time before the racist and neo-fascist plague descends on us also — which is why launching the Anti-Racist Alliance was so urgent . |
| 6 | They had only a short time before followed the tantalising fresh scent-trail laid by Grant and Larsen , which they had then lost at the foot of the house wall . |
| 7 | After a short while he found that the gypsies were taking their horses to him to be shod ; and he had quite a busy time shoeing gypsy horses . |
| 8 | Then he remembered the guard back at Wissembourg and knew he had only a limited time to cover his tracks . |
| 9 | As it was a weekend , all the bigger-wig doctors were not on duty but , knowing of Nigel 's condition and that he had only a short time to live , they brought him through . |