Example sentences of "[pers pn] have little time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had little time for more than a quick glance round the room . |
| 2 | This reinforced my interest in the subject , but as I soon became involved in postgraduate studies in busy medical , surgical and then paediatric units I had little time to pursue it at that stage . |
| 3 | Amid all these shattering events I had little time to try to find out what had happened to Eric . |
| 4 | However , I had little time to waste on Maté . |
| 5 | She heard that : — — Papa is grown stout and has need of bigger trousers but Mama cries he is more handsome than ever and so do I. I have little time my Lily to write because I am put to Latin with the Abbe which is sore hard work and gives me the headache . |
| 6 | The status sub-text here is ‘ I have little time to talk to you ’ or ‘ I 'm a person who is very much in demand . ’ |
| 7 | Except for Sting and George Michael ( 'wonderful voice , writes great songs ' ) , she has little time for most modern pop . |
| 8 | Particularly , she has little time for a group called Yello , the Swiss electro-band with whom she collaborated on a single last year , much in the way Liza Minelli and the Pet Shop Boys or Gene Pitney and Marc Almond have . |
| 9 | Examples of this reciprocal effect lie in the man who is engrossed in his work to the detriment of his married life or the woman who is so wrapped up in her children that she has little time for her husband . |
| 10 | You 've little time . ’ |
| 11 | It was lucky for her that she was so busy just then , as she had little time to think during the day , and at night she was so tired that she fell asleep directly she got into bed . |
| 12 | Although she had little time to help organize the newspaper project , as she buzzed around discussing it with friends and jotting down ideas it began to get up steam . |
| 13 | Carrie was hard put to it and she had little time to talk with him , but it was not long before Billy turned up at the cafe eager to see his friend and Carrie directed him into the back room . |
| 14 | An addict of the pipe herself , she had little time for her son — the only one of three to survive — and left his rearing to her own mother . |
| 15 | She had little time to care for herself , and even less time for planning and preparing meals with proper thought and care . |
| 16 | She felt happier about Kathleen now that she knew that she had a champion in Ella , but she had little time to dwell on the O'Neills . |
| 17 | The one , that , even while giving her a verbal warning about her work , he had handed her a very important file to work on — albeit only to ensure she had little time for anything else — must mean that he had received good reports on her ability . |
| 18 | She had little time for the slow-witted and the unenthusiastic , and just as she exaggerated the talents of those she loved , she tended to magnify the defects of those she disliked . |
| 19 | If you have little time to deal with personal tax matters or have tax worries , the Bank 's tax expert can deal with any aspect of personal taxation and will look after your interest no matter how simple or complicated your tax affairs may be . |
| 20 | Indeed , we were so anxious to get the figures right that we had little time to spend explaining why what we proposed was morally necessary . |
| 21 | It meant however that we had little time to relate our studies at any deep level to Buddhism , but it seemed unanswerable that people must have a deep understanding of their own faith before they can go on to study that of other people . |
| 22 | resulted in the controllers making … a puritan attack directed at the drug taking of the ( underground ) movement ; and since the drug-scene is complex and confused , and we have little time in which to develop a reliable folk-lore about drugs and how to take them ( as we have long ago done about alcohol ) , they have been particularly successful in fostering anxiety among teachers , parents and establishment figures . |
| 23 | Because we are engaged in practical actions of great complexity , which we nevertheless ‘ pull off ’ day after day , we have little time to stand back and analyse how we do all the things that we do . |
| 24 | Unfortunately we have little time for digressions however entertaining they might be . |
| 25 | We have little time . |
| 26 | With the exception of Hitchcock , whom they worshipped , they had little time for accepted and acclaimed directors , finding more value in the more commercial movies of , for instance , Howard Hawks and Raoul Walsh . |
| 27 | But , after that , they had little time to spend together , little to say to one another . |
| 28 | For a while they made so much work for the bailiffs that they had little time to harass the Nonconformists . |
| 29 | Field men , as a result , are not only often in doubt as to whether they are observing a ‘ pollution ’ , they have little time to consider what action should be taken . |
| 30 | He lists no hobbies in Who 's Who ? but then again , he has little time , although he and his wife , Caroline , a high-flying recruitment consultant , are renowned ‘ foodies ’ . |